Developer Essentials (Windows)

Essential applications for general development on Windows OS.

Dawid Ferenczy
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  1. This tool provides complete management of any SQLite3 database.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    SQLite Query screenshot 1
    SQLite Query screenshot 1
    SQLite Query screenshot 2
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    SQLite Query screenshot 3
  2. Rapid Environment Editor (RapidEE) is an environment variables editor. It includes an easy to use GUI and replaces the small and inconvenient Windows edit box.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Rapid Environment Editor screenshot 1
  3. Special Purpose Viewers & Editors

  4. Simple, nice and extremely fast JSON viewer and editor, even with very large JSON files. Probably the fastest JSON viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    JSON tree view
    Raw JSON view
    Base64 encoding/decoding
  5. Difference Viewers

  6. Diffinity icon
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    Diffinity is a diff and merging tool with focus on accurate and easy to read source code diffs. It will compare the content of two files and present the differences in an easy to read line by line and char by char basis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Diffinity screenshot 1
    Diffinity screenshot 1
    Diffinity screenshot 2
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    Diffinity screenshot 3
  7. Meld icon
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    Open-source tool for dynamic file and folder comparisions, syntax highlighting, offline functionality, and version control integration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
    • GTK
    File comparison
    Folder comparison
    Version control
    +5
    Folder comparsion
  8. KDiff3 icon
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    KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • KDE Plasma
    KDiff3 screenshot 1
  9. WinMerge icon
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    WinMerge is an open source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    File Comparison
    3-way File Comparison
    Folder Comparison Results
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    Folder Compare Tree View
  10. General Programmer's Text Editors

  11. Free, extensible code editor with Git integration, AI-driven IntelliCode, and 30,000+ extensions, supporting various languages like Python, Java.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Snapcraft
    Visual Studio Code screenshot 1
    Visual Studio Code screenshot 1
    Visual Studio Code screenshot 2
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    Visual Studio Code screenshot 3
  12. Atom icon
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    Atom is an open-source, Electron icon Electron based text editor with a massive ecosystem of plugins and themes that are easily accessible through a built-in package manager. Being built with Electron, it uses web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • Electron / Atom Shell
    Intro screen
    Command palette
    Choose from scores of community made themes
    +2
    Project view
  13. Log Viewers

  14. glogg icon
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    glogg is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    glogg screenshot 1
    glogg screenshot 1
  15. LogExpert icon
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    LogExpert is a Windows tail program (a GUI replacement for the Unix tail command). LogExpert is free for non-commercial or commercial use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    LogExpert screenshot 1
    LogExpert screenshot 1
  16. Version Control

  17. Git icon
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    Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • Linux Mobile
    • Haiku
  18. Command Line

  19. PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    PowerShell screenshot 1
  20. clink icon
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    Clink enhances your productivity in Microsoft Windows' "cmd.exe". If you're familiar with Bash then you will be familiar with the changes that clink brings to "cmd.exe" (it uses the same 'Readline' library that Bash uses). It is a small utility.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    clink screenshot 1
  21. ConEmu icon
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    Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    ConEmu screenshot 1
    ConEmu screenshot 1
    Alpha transparency in ConEmu
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    Windows 7 Jump list
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