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Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

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I think something that relates to the pain of onboarding with unique configurations for core tools used by developers would be useful. To be specific I wish I didn't have to forward a developer to an already obsolete wiki page then nod and smile as they complain/tussle with the experience/vernacular/context of a document that has no owner. I think this is a bigger problem (which could be mine and mine alone as everyo…

At an old job I spent my first week on the job documenting the process from a wiki page into a bash script (albeit with some comment sections that said "do this manually"). A year later, one of our devs was up for a laptop upgrade and I convinced him to give Linux a try. I shared my script with him and he was up and committing code later that afternoon. The next week we had a company wide mandate to switch to linux f…

Yeah, this was my problem (we have many Mac users so my liberal use of 'xdg-open' wasn't appreciated (I'm sure it was more than that I didn't have a Mac to test it against'.)

A move to devcontainers helped this but dictated some ide behaviours (majority of devs are tried and true jetbrains people) so changing they way they use their tools made this a 'no sale' so again like the wiki my scripts sit idle. But I dream for the day a `curl ${url} | bash` can solve these teething issues

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

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There is https://www.wappalyzer.com/ which does most of what you are looking for.

I use the wappalyzer chrome extension almost everyday when I'm browsing the web, pretty useful at getting a highlevel view of the tech used

Thanks! That’s exactly what I was looking for. It’s even local (data stays in the browser) and free software.

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

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Log viewer that can prettify JSON structured objects. And for example if you clicked on level = error it can quickly filter all error logs.

The Logfile Navigator is a TUI for viewing/analyzing log files and will pretty-print anything with a keypress, see https://lnav.org/features#pretty-print-view

It's not specific to JSON/XML either, it works on any text that follows the usual conventions for structuring data in a textual way.

You can filter by level as well, but, usually I just press e/E to jump to the next/previous error from the current location.

There are, of course, many other features as well.

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#176

I don’t have any great ideas. A big one for me would be ‘better/much faster language server for the language I use’ but that’s a lot of work. But if you like working on developer tools, the best way to do it is to find a sufficiently large company that care’s sufficiently much about developer tools that they will be willing to pay you to work on in-house developer tools. This can be much more stable than trying to se…

Do you have any tips on how to find such companies? I've always wanted to work on developer tooling but only ever found one company willing to invest in that.

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#177

- A build system / package manager like Nix [1] but with a better user experience / more straightforward command-line tooling. - A dependently typed programming language like Coq [2] (or Agda, Idris, Lean, etc.) that is sufficiently approachable to gain enough mindshare that companies start adopting it for mission-critical work. - A version control system which scales to petabytes or more. Something that I could put…

> - A build system / package manager like Nix [1] but with a better user experience / more straightforward command-line tooling.

Have you tried Bazel? It has warts but has been improving for a long time.

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#178

Would like to see a FLOSS IDE good enough to wrest mindshare back from vscode. A competitive stronghold that shouldn't be dominated by BigTech and telemetry. Wishlist: should be very responsive, powerful, and reasonably easy to use. CUA keybindings, no unique interfaces. All intelligent functions running in low priority background threads/workers so the main window is snappy as hell. Perhaps written in something like…

Are you aware of VSCodium (https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#readme) and does it not meet your criteria because it's "dominated" by Microsoft?

The rest of the terms such as "responsive," "easy to use", and "no unique interfaces" make your request hard to fulfill

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#179

- Language agnostic unit test framework - A polished window manager (e.g., Yabai) written using Hammerspoon modules - Hudson (Jenkins) replacement (self-hosted) written in typed Python

> Language agnostic unit test framework

Does Cucumber (https://cucumber.io/docs/guides/10-minute-tutorial/), Fitness (http://fitnesse.org/FitNesse.UserGuide), and similar abstraction frameworks meet your need?

> Hudson (Jenkins) replacement (self-hosted) written in typed Python

No offense, but this seems squarely in the "I want a faster horse" camp. To say nothing of the fact that the existing Jenkins is written in a statically typed language

Re: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?

#180

- Language agnostic unit test framework - A polished window manager (e.g., Yabai) written using Hammerspoon modules - Hudson (Jenkins) replacement (self-hosted) written in typed Python

Perhaps buildbot as a Jenkins replacement https://buildbot.net/
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