Question thread #149

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

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It's dev related I swear....

[dreamatdrew]

So, For Reasons(TM), I am once again gonna be a Mac user.
The issue: Since I have been mostly-off MacOS for *cough* years, I am very out-of-the-loop for good tools. And I know there are at least 3 MacOS people who've done dev here.
To that end: Any recommendations for apps for person-who-pokes-at-code?
Things I'm specifically thinkin of:
A suitable analogue to Notepad++ for plain-text-editing with syntax highlighting
Good terminal emulators (For both local and ssh/telent [yes I know telnet is ancient and insecure; I still have cases where I need to use it]) to replace putty
SFTP client to replace WinSCP.

And, to be honest, I'm open to hearing recs about anything I should look at. But the above is why I thought it to be tangentially related. (Mods, feel free to smite/screen if not-sufficiently-related-enough.)

Re: It's dev related I swear....

[denise]

• BBEdit is the best text editor in the universe, and the paid version also is a scp client that lets you edit on-server so you don't have to mess with transferring files

• The built-in Terminal works for just about anything you'd use PuTTY for! At least I've never found a reason to need something additional.

Re: It's dev related I swear....

[thothxv]

I've always found sftp to work well enough for me, but if you want a graphical client I'm pretty sure Cyberduck is as good as it ever was.

I think ssh and telnet still come preinstalled on macs? The default terminal is fairly decent, but if you want something fancier there are options. Ghostty and kitty are what all the cool kids are using right now, but Wezterm and Alacritty are also quite solid. iTerm2 is also still around, but I don't think there's any compelling reason to use it over wezterm or really any of the others here.