Tools that we use

The software development tools that we use, we use because they have been proven in battle. Usually these tools have been evolved over a long period of time, by hardend developers. In some cases we have not been able to find a tool usefull enough for the job and hence produced our own.

The centerpiece

A centerpiece when dealing with code in our company is Emacs. Emacs has been around for many years. Emacs has been proven by generations of developers, and as a result is an efficient and usefull tool. Once you get tired of using many different IDE:s for different languages and platforms, then you are ready for something like Emacs.

Code, when reduced, is just text formatted in different ways. If you look at code this way then writing or maintaining code becomes a simple excercise in manipulating text. In our experience merging with this way of looking at code makes complete sense, and in doing so the obvious choice for manipulating text is Emacs.