I want to talk about three things that has fundamentally changed my dev-life. There are a lot of things, like ImGUI, that are very amazing and useful but they don’t provide a general solution across many problems.
In no particular order…
Git
I’ve been using Git since 2010 and it really has changed my dev-life. I’d used version control before that, mainly Perform, SVN and PVSC, but Git felt nice and unobtrusive and I like that everything was local until I pushed to the server.
It’s both nice and annoying that you can’t lock files (like art). You can (kind of) with LFS but that feels tacked on and not ready for primetime. Don’t think so? Try explaining installing and using it to a non-technical artist sometime.
Git can be frustrating if you’re trying to do anything but the basics.
Accidentally check in a secret file months ago and need to scrub it? Good luck with that. There are ways but it requires a lot of Git-Fu.
I mainly use a GUI for git (Fork) and that takes most of the pain away. I do use the command line, but mostly in automation scripts.
Markdown
Before Markdown became the de-facto standard, I used my own custom format. It worked but wasn’t great and only I understood it.
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