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Discussion on: What Makes Good Developer Tools... Good?

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derek • Edited

likewise... I believe the same as well, and I too aspire to one day create a tool that literally stands the test of time and literally saves time--If a tool saves you even a few seconds each time you use it and you use it n times a day everyday for n years you definitely would get your ROI on learning the tool.

I think great examples of these tools are: grep, fzf, parallel

I think these tools all have pretty simple APIs and just intuitively go with unix piping.

Git is not a tool it is a way of life!
Vim is not a tool it is a religion!

So in conclusion any tool that makes me more productive and gives an ROI of learning it