What library/language/tool wowed you with its developer experience?

What thing really raised the bar for your expectations of developer experience when you first went to use it?

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[Franco Valdes]

Zeit Now + NextJS. Specially now with the latest release, its b e a utiful. From start project to CI in no time.

[Steven Liao]

Next.js

[Amit Patel]

Ruby.

I can do so much with less amount of code. It's Truly made for developer's happiness.

[Corey McCarty]

I think that I'll always be enamored by Python. The ability to pull powerful scripts together in just a few lines of code is really amazing to me.

[Holy-Elie Scaïde]

Language: C
Library: Laravel Collection Api or RxJava
Tool: Neovim

[Gracie Gregory (she/her)]

I feel that GitLab exemplifies good dx.

I'm not an expert user by any means, but from what I've seen, it houses almost everything software teams would need for a full stack without requiring endless context-switching (thus saving significant development time and sparing focus in the long run). Not to mention the syntax themes, great 3rd party integrations, and more :)

[Sahil Bondre]

Typescript. I mean just wow! 🦄

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

I particularly like Kotlin. It can do everything Python/JavaScript can, plus more. But I have to agree it is more restrictive to write than TypeScript.

On a little shaky footing do I like TypeScript. I can even run a CLI script with ts-node, and I can always escape to JavaScript with any and // @ts-ignore. It also integrates well with the IDE, if you don't escape to JavaScript. Being JavaScript in nature, it feels patchy here and there. Still, I prefer to write server-side code and CLI scripts in TypeScript.

[Gayan Hewa]

Golang. I just don't get enough of it atm. All most all the other ecosystems I have worked with Javascript, Node, PHP, Ruby etc there is a bit of everything you need to get started. Things to worry about ie. Code style, where to put the files, which style to choose etc. Go just simplifies a lot of these minor things. Making it just easy to get started.

[Saurabh Sharma]

• Knex is
• Django
• JavaScript (you already have everything to start coding in it)
• GraphQL

[Gavin Rehkemper]

Svelte JavaScript Framework!

[Daniel Schulz]

JQuery for sure. It made some js concepts understandable for me.

[Avalander]

Elm taught me that code can be elegant and explicit and that you don't need complex layers of abstraction/encapsulation to make things easier to deal with.

Then hyperapp showed me that you don't need a heavy and complex framework with half a dozen libraries to do state management to build powerful and easy to maintain web apps.

[Albert]

Vscode

Netlify

This is all I can remember for now