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What’s the most under-appreciated software?

What code floating around doesn’t get the credit it deserves?

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Ghazouane

Autoit is just amazing when you have to automate some stuff on windows. I developed a lot of stuff and tools with it before C#. And I have to say it : simpler and cleaner than .NET but a little bit less powerful.

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Sebastiangperez

Microsoft Access
You can have a database like postgress for asp without sqlserver. besides you can have a full crm inside.

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Alejandro Ñáñez Ortiz

Git, hands down.

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Patryk • Edited

Surprised no one mentioned Traefik yet.

I've been fighting with Nginx to get routing done to some Docker containers... It was extremely fragile. If your routes aren't up, it simply refuses to start. Traefik just uses dynamic configuration to find your containers, and you just need to add a few labels. No need to make a graph of which containers you need to start before you can use nginx!

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Sena Heydari

FreeBSD.

It’s used as the basis of the PS4 operating system, and tons of the networking stack have been included into various OS’s (including Windows!) since it’s very efficient and the BSD license is very liberal for inclusion into commercial products.

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Mohamed ELIDRISSI • Edited

systemd, life would not exist without it.
Serious mode on, Its not really under-appreciated but I think nodejs and npm(not you node_modules) changed a lot in web development, think how many things wouldn't exist without it, plus, its very easy to debug you just rm -rf node_modules && npm i, okay I'll stop.

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Max Ong Zong Bao • Edited

I think it's Web browsers regardless if it's Firefox, Brave, IE or Chrome.

Web browsers is one of those most underated piece of software around.

Without it we won't be able to access Dev, Google, Stackoverflow that we need to use it as part of our daily lives.

It's becomes a topic of discussion when Web Assembly is used to talk about it

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Chathula Sampath

AdonisJS

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Jasterix

Not sure if this counts, but I don't know what I did before OneTab. Actually, yes I do- I used to have windows and windows of sites I didn't want to lose, but hadn't the chance to review yet. but I love that with OneTab, I can easily collapse my open tabs into just one

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Mike7755

Snipping Tool....Lol

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