What is the best software for programming?

pagan123 said:

I am needing to do 3D modeling and other programming, what is the best software for that?

There is not such thing as 'the best software' for that.

Cyber is right that for most people asking this question the answer is Unity. You can get very far in Unity in the sense of achieving what you originally imagined for your project. And this without programming or with very little programming.

If someone loves programming and wants to get to the bottom of things and is not afraid to invest a lot of his/her time in low-level debugging, than DirectX 12 and C++ is definitely worth a closer look. Over the last year things have improved very much on the documentation/tutorial side. You do not only have the Microsoft pages describing their API, but also full access to DX 12 engines like Microsoft's Mini Engine at https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectX-Graphics-Samples or my own DX12 Rift engine at https://github.com/ClemensX/ShadedPath12 True, Microsoft didn't include basic functionality like image loading in DX12, but with the code examples provided any serious indie developer should be able to implement or reuse the features he needs.