Well, many years ago there were no sites here except SO. Now there are many sites under the
Stack Exchange brand, and topics here are not as lax because there are now other more suitable sites. This site is specifically for questions related to programming (code) and use of programmers tools (IDEs, compilers, etc.). As I said, you should take the
tour and read the
help center pages to learn what is appropriate to ask here
now, which is not the same as
used to be years ago. And also, SO is not a
forum - it's a question and answer site for a specific group of topics. Tool recs are not among them. —
Ken White 52 secs ago