development software

software I use for developing an online game:

-notepad (coding and text editing)
-winsyntax (coding and text editing, its very basic this program and its free, but it comes with color coding which is great for debugging, and because its so basic its not a memory hog)
-paint (for images)
-gimp (for images)
-filezilla (for uploading files to server)



and the host has phpadmin and plesk with cron tasks (always neat)

but if you want to develop that locally, then xamp is great, comes with apache server, php installment and phpadmin for the sql

I also use libraries, there is a javascript library called three.js that's great if you want to do anything 3D in the browser

 

I would say Visual Studio (various languages such as C++ and C#), Visual Studio Code, Netbeans/Eclipse (for Java), and Notepad++ (for coding websites, and for use with other languages). They're all useful for different purposes.