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What software are ya'll using these days to code? I've been using VSCode but have changed probably 15 times since I started coding in 2001.

Okay. Serious answer time.

OS: Mixture of OSX, Ubuntu and POP OS. I kept a Windows partition up to 2018 before umping it.

Editor: Vim with lots and lots of plugins. Though, I'm unsatisfied right now with it's Javascript offerings.

Languages: Mostly PHP and Javascript. Lots of shell and python scripts for automating small things.

Colore Scheme: gruvbox everywhere! https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox

I’ve always wanted to learn PHP because it seems easy to deploy on normal shared hosting, which most normies like me already have (I do not know how to run a server I do not know how to docker etc)
Most modern PHP applications now have hosting requirements that go way beyond normal shared hosting. #Friendica which I'm replying you from used to somewhat work on shared hosting when it was created in 2011, but not so much anymore since 2016 or so because of the requirement of a background process to handle all the federation stuff.