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najob

whats best soft, tool, for web develop? I work many years in wordpress, building plugins and themes. what can I more do? I have more then 300 sites on two vps
now Im starting with python
tnx

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najob

I build web since 1993 ;) and work with comp since 1984. basic :)
10 start
20 print
30 the end
voila :D

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Rob Kendal {{☕}}

Ahh the good old days :D

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Rob Kendal {{☕}}

The answer, like most things, is...it depends...

Tools are just that, tools. They'll likely have a specific task in mind and it's up to you to decide if that makes your life easier or harder. For example, you absolutely can code an entire website with nothing else than Notepad. Is it going to be easy? Not so much, but it can be done.

For me, it's a lot about feel and how much it empowers me, rather than restricts or hinders me.

For example, I use VS Code because it's awesome. It's so customisable, feels stripped back, but has a lot of depth and it just makes developing a pleasure.

However, if you were looking to delve into enterprise C# development, you'd probably be happier with Visual Studio as it offers more tools and areas to help you do your job.

As for web development in general, again, it really depends on what you want to achieve.

If you're looking at front end, then we're talking about HTML/CSS/JavaScript, probably with a modern app framework such as React/Preact or Vue.

If you're looking more back end then you've got the heavy hitters such as C# and other languages such as Python (becomming popular for big data and machine learning) and Ruby which are booming in popularity.

But there's nothing wrong with specialising in Wordpress development, however, as it does power something crazy like 1/5 of the web? It's a skillset that isn't going to go away overnight and even without WordPress, you'll have a solid set of PHP skills, which is still used be many a software development house today for building really useful things.

Does that help?

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najob

make my day :) tnx!