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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 mattnewton »

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.

Well, even that seems the wrong name. Is it worth writing an article saying php, angular, react, and _JavaScript_ are popular in web development in 2016? I guess it's worth knowing that they still are?

Re: Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Post by daveguy »

Well, this did point me to a shared password system with an API that I have not seen before: passbolt [https://www.passbolt.com/]

I have been looking for something like this for a while to securely access and share credentials from an application. GPL makes me nervous though -- especially AGPL. Does AGPL prevent you from using it as a service from within a separate program? For example, if OAUTH was AGPL would no one be able to use "sign in with google/facebook/etc" without open sourcing their software?

Re: Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Post by mgutten »

meow_mix wrote: post #9

Not sure how this was judged... Seems silly to list jQuery, React, and Javascript... If jQuery, React etc is on there obviously JS is too? They should really break down the numbers. And what is meant by trending? I assumed this was judged by people hiring for the technology but they list Node as being a top-trend yet on their website Rails has more job openings than Node... Seems weird.

Originally we thought the same thing, but we wanted to remove as much bias from the analysis as possible, so we opted to keep all tools in the running. Since the weighted rank was based heavily on tech stack inclusion, we felt it was more valuable to keep the raw rankings.

For trending, we calculated tech stack growth over the past 6 months for each tool. I wish we had time to pull in job data, but the data pull was going to delay the article a while and there are some core features we were itching to get at (there's only 6 of us on the team). Not saying this is a perfect list, but it's a snapshot of the data we have and felt it was a good indication of what developers/teams are using.

Re: Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Post by sergiotapia »

epmatsw wrote: post #10

Kite looks intriguing, but sending every keystroke to a remote server is a bummer

Last I heard they will offer a on-premises solution for companies that need it. However without being connected to the hivemind, I imagine it's utility will suffer. :(

It's a great idea though!

Re: Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Post by Arzh »

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…

Yeah you can call the language a tool, since most languages can get the same job done but some do certain jobs better.

Re: Top Developer Tools of 2016

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Post by mgutten »

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.

Since we aggregated data across all users, our "web" tools definitely shone through (as you might imagine, there are more web devs than native on stackshare), but given that we included all tools we felt it was more accurate as a description of the methodology.

Do you think it would be valuable for us to segment these rankings further next time? Create a couple different rankings?

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