Best tools for coding and why?

visual studio

notepad

WebStorm or Atom and iTerm 2 with Git installed

Anything by JetBrains, really.

sublime text 2/3, once you get used to all the shortcuts - there's no better editor.

also netbeans for it's refactoring features. But that's IDE

Jetbrains products, Visual studio, Android studio, depends on the technology you use

asking that question here is like going to a car convention and asking what the best car ever made was, your never going to get a single difinitive answer.

notepad++

@RampantShadow isn't that the point? Wanted to hear what people had to say!

@0xH4lcyon yeah, but how can you get "the best" when there is no general concensus?

@RampantShadow because that is called emotional intelligence and is there to incite opinion, such as your own

@0xH4lcyon emotional and intelligence are not two things that are generally put side by side lol, you can form an emotional attachment to the IDE you enjoy but to do that you have to experience it.

I could however give an intelligent argument as to why he should use a specific IDE, still not easy to sift through all the different software to what will fit specifically for him.

@RampantShadow no, what I mean is emotional intelligence in the sense that If I refer to something as being the best. I.e: notepad for coding, then you and everyone else would find it hard not to correct me with your own opinion for me making such a obscure statement.

If you do not know what something is, it would be best to Google it