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Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Re: Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Post by throwanem »

BigChiefSmokem wrote: post #50

Top 10 Developers? Don't know any of them. I must not be in the right inner-circles (I'm guessing web development judging by this list). That reminds me, do we still consider Carmack a top developer?

They're apparently the top 10 contributors to Stackshare.io.

Re: Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Post by whatever_dude »

ohyoutravel wrote: post #5

JavaScript, Python, PHP, and HTML are developer tools? (yes, they're listed in four of the top ten spaces of Application & Data Tool of the Year) Isn't that like saying the #1 business tool is "The English Language"? I guess I expected a list of things people use like this one (which is phenomenal): "Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows" http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHa…

I have to agree. This list is either terrible, or it has terribly named categories comparing unrelated technologies to each other.

Re: Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Post by ProAm »

gglitch wrote: post #35
ohyoutravel wrote: post #5

JavaScript, Python, PHP, and HTML are developer tools? (yes, they're listed in four of the top ten spaces of Application & Data Tool of the Year) Isn't that like saying the #1 business tool is "The English Language"? I guess I expected a list of things people use like this one (which is phenomenal): "Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows" http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHa…

I'm not missing the point of your satire, but I'd love it if more people considered language arts a powerful tool worth mastering to an advanced degree.

Really its the IDE or text editor that you should master, what you put into it is just icing on the cake.

Re: Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Post by shuntress »

Arzh wrote: post #37
shuntress wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the grandparent is attempting to make a distinction between a tool and (for lack of a better term) a material. With the idea being you use tools to shape your materials to create your end product. You carry the tools with you from project to project but the materials stay in place. To use the normal house-building analogy, I would say that the Tools are obviously saws, drills, etc. Things that you use on ev…

I don't think that is a good analogy. The end product (app/house) is what the code actually does. What you use to make that product is a tool, including what language you use.

I disagree. It makes more sense to me to consider the language the material or medium (that is shaped by a tool) rather than a tool itself.

To examine another simple example, consider a potter who crafts a vase from clay. The potter's wheel and his hands are the tools he uses to form the clay medium. I do not consider the clay itself to be a tool.

I think that the analogy fits. Javascript is more accurately represented by the clay than by the wheel. If your final product is "function foo(bar){...};" you are forming that function from javascript using a text editor. The same way a vase is formaed from clay using a wheel.

Also worth noting, the same way that vase can become a tool used by some other craftsman on some other project, that javascript could be packaged in a way that lets you take it with you to other projects. But just like the original clay is not a tool, the javascript isn't a tool. But the package you make with it might be.

Re: Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Post by matart »

SteveMoody73 wrote: post #45
zwieback wrote: post #6

Great list, wrong name, should be something like "top 50 _web_ developer tools. Not much in there for desktop app developers.

If the list is for all development work then i must be doing something wrong. I only use 5 of the listed "tools". Github, Gitlab, Vim, Python and Sublime Text. These top lists lately always seem to focus on web development and seem to skip the millions of developers who work have never written a web app. Desktop, Embedded and backend apps may not be as sexy as the latest web framework but do run a huge number of busi…

My guess is that they source this based on web searches and social media posts. Those tend to have a more web development focus.
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