What is the best program to write code in?

I use a mixture of Brackets which is free and Sublime text 2. Brackets just added multiple cursors like sublime text in its latest release.

Lot of plugins for both as well. Sublime's development seems to be grinding to a halt. A lot of unhappy people over on the forums, so I would maybe not pay for it just yet. Atomic is another one but in alpha i think and is mac only.

There's no right or wrong answer to this question really. I myself find notepad++ the best to use and is the one I am most comfortable with.

Have a look at things like Notepad++, Sublime, Crimson text editor or others and see what suits you best. :)

An Alternative and probably my favorite right now is Brackets (brackets.io). Brackets is free and has very active community. Brackets is a nice UI and has been adding new features monthly. I like Brackets auto-completion and quick edit capabilities and for HTML/CSS, along with the Live Preview/Editing. Both Sublime and Brackets support windows and mac so try them both you can't go wrong.

Great, thanks guys, I'm taking a look at brackets and sublime now. Found lots of documentation already

Hey Jack, as an experiences front end guy myself I would hand down go with Sublime Text mainly for it's package control and customization. They are a TON of packages (they're like plugins/extensions) that you can install to Sublime to make writing your code even more effortless. It can really increase your workflow too. Look in to it! Hope this helps man!

There's no such thing as the "best" programming to write code in.

Sublime Text 2 and 3 are both great and work on all three major platforms, so you can have something very similar no matter where you are.

Brackets, Atom, BBEdit, etc etc etc are all solid, too. Many are free, some cost money.

PyCharm and the other IDEs from JetBrains are great, especially if you're working with a specific language (Python, Ruby, C, etc).

Or go with the apps that have been around forever like Vim and Emacs. Both have a fairly steep learning curve but can handle anything you throw at them.

This is great advice, thank you all. Referring back to John's point that "Sublime's development seems to be grinding to a halt," is that correct? Not keen on investing, and learning shortcuts etc. that will become obsolete

The main issue a lot have over on the forums is that the one developer(sorry can't remember his name) has been fairly silent for the past 5 or more months now, with the last release around the same time I think. Some people think sublime is/should go open source.

From browsing the forums some are clearly worried about its future and the lack of feedback from the developer. Atom seems to be taking what was good about sublime(UI, shortcuts and stuff) and building upon it. If your on mac you should give atom a try.

Sublime is still a great editor and will be for some time. Funny enough I just checked the forums and it seems there has been dev build release.