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These 3 Tools Made Me A Much Better Programmer

How-To Geek, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025

You're probably like me, and you have an insatiable thirst for new software to quench your curiosity. There is a wealth of useful applications out there. Some applications are powerful enough to change how you think and perform. Here are three tools that fundamentally changed me as a programmer.

Neovim: A Tinkerer's Dream

Whether it's features, extensibility, or ease of editing, Neovim enables me to create the exact environment that I want and allows me to focus solely on the code-improving my efficiency and overall developer experience.

Endless Tinkering and a Personalized Setup

Neovim is a highly customizable text editor with some advanced code editing features that are on par with other code editors like VS Code. Not every single one of VS Code's features is matched, but Neovim's answer is infinite configurability.

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