# Choose Your Developer Environment

The tutorials walk through the use of a standard set of developer tools. You
can use others if you wish but support is limited currently.

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## Working with your own code editor

If you have your own preferred code editor, you can use it instead of
vscode. We recommend developing generic IOCs using
a devcontainer. Devcontainer supporting tools are listed here
<https://containers.dev/supporting>.

epics-containers has been tested with

- vscode
- Github Codespaces

TODO: add instructions for using other editors. Potentially we could enhance
the epics-containers-cli to support other editors with minimal effort.