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It's almost like Git + Gitea, all in a single application. Code + tickets + wiki + notes all version controlled and capable of hosting the server itself. Also, the repo is just a SQLite database, so backup is easy.
Altium
Comsol
Proprietary yes, but I’ve used all three over the last few years and found them each to be very streamlined, productive, and elegant after a fashion.
Not sure if games count as software but if they do - Factorio. I don't play much these days but I'm still utterly stunned how a relatively small, humble team of developers can build something so robust and performant. Granted, I've never really tried pushing the limits, but not once have I felt like the game is even breaking a sweat while processing thousands of machines, belts, and bots. It's a miracle to me. Their…
As someone who very much enjoys tinkering with Linux and such, but also likes trying to onboard other people who aren't as techy, Syncthing is such a killer example. It's almost depressing because I want other free and open source stuff to be this good, though I know the economics (and proprietary interference, perhaps?) make that tough.
Keyboard Maestro. It’s a tool for automating common tasks on a Mac. A real programming language is certainly more elegant for writing programs. But what I find elegant about Keyboard Maestro is that it lets me add programming logic to any application on my Mac, quick and dirty.
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Another example might be my favorite text editor, vis[1].
[0] https://www.openbsd.org/ [1] https://github.com/martanne/vis
Syncthing, by a mile. As someone who very much enjoys tinkering with Linux and such, but also likes trying to onboard other people who aren't as techy, Syncthing is such a killer example. It's almost depressing because I want other free and open source stuff to be this good, though I know the economics (and proprietary interference, perhaps?) make that tough.