IDE: Visual Studio Code

My current editor of choice is Visual Studio Code with a variety of extensions and user settings that make it a good fit for my daily work and preferred programming languages. While there are certainly more intricate editors that offer more capabilities when you spend some time configuring them (looking at you, neovim), in my experience Code has "just worked" without much fuss.

Terminal

My Terminal of choice is Kitty. Kitty is an insanely smooth GPU-based terminal emulator leverating OpenGL with built-in support for tabs and windows (eliminating the need for tmux), proper Unicode support (including ligatures), and a clean configuration format.

For my Shell, I use fish, having historically used zsh + ohmyzsh. I use fish for several reasons: it is notable faster than zsh, fish configuration and scripting, and built-in support for features such as fuzzy history (which you would otherwise need to use ohmyzsh for). My fish configuration is set up to offer comparable user experiences between macOS and Linux (path differences, Linux-specific functions).

No fancy CLI-based experience would be complete without a prompt. For that, I use Starship! 🦀