Programs for Developers Linux

Code editors, Git, programming languages, API testing and database tools: the first things to install on a new development machine.

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Code editor

Visual Studio Code 1.139.1 Visual Studio Code is a lightweight code editor developed by Microsoft for web and cloud application development.
VSCodium 1.140.06880 VSCodium is a community-driven, open-source binary distribution of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code codebase.
Geany 2.1.0 Geany is a fast, lightweight open-source text editor and integrated development environment (IDE) built on Scintilla.

Version control and diff

GitHub Desktop 3.4.13-linux1 GitHub Desktop is an open-source graphical user interface that simplifies interacting with Git repositories and GitHub.

API testing

Databases

DBeaver 26.2.3 DBeaver is a universal database management tool and SQL client designed for developers, database administrators, and data analysts.

Terminal and SSH

PuTTY 0.85 PuTTY is a free and open-source network terminal client developed by Simon Tatham under the MIT license.

Paid or trial programs are labelled with their license type. Every link goes to the program's official source.

Install the kit with one command

The command below installs the suggested programs from each group from the official repository. Use the bulk install tool to pick only the ones you want.

flatpak install -y flathub com.visualstudio.code io.github.shiftey.Desktop com.getpostman.Postman io.dbeaver.DBeaverCommunity uk.org.greenend.chiark.sgtatham.putty

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