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Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and commands prompt. The language is a superset of Python 3.6+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython. It works on all major systems including Linux, OSX, and Windows. Xonsh is meant for the daily use of experts and novices. The xonsh shell lets you easily mix Python and shell commands in a powerful and simplified approach to the command line.

HTTPie is a modern command-line HTTP client that makes CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible. It offers a plethora of friendly features that make it an excellent curl alternative. It is equipped with an intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting and so much more. HTTPie gives a single http command for sending arbitrary HTTP requests with a simple, natural syntax, and displayed in a formatted, colorized terminal output.

ddgr is a command-line search tool that lets users perform DuckDuckGo web searches directly from their terminal, providing a privacy-focused alternative to browser-based searches without tracking or personalized profiling. It fetches search results via DuckDuckGo’s API or HTML output and presents links, snippets, and metadata in a clean terminal format, making it useful for programmers, sysadmins, and privacy advocates who prefer keyboard-driven workflows.