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Emacs
GNU
At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. Content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types. Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users. Full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts. Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface. A wide range of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, IRC client, and more. A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions. Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers. Text shaping with HarfBuzz. Native support for JSON parsing. Better support for Cairo drawing. Portable dumping used instead of unexec. Support for XDG conventions for init files. Additional early-init initialization file. Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line. Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick. -
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Flatcar Container Linux
Kinvolk
The introduction of container-based infrastructure was a paradigm shift. A Container-optimized Linux distribution is the best foundation for cloud native infrastructure. A minimal OS image only includes the tools needed to run containers. No package manager, no configuration drift. Delivering the OS on an immutable filesystem eliminates a whole category of security vulnerabilities. Automated atomic updates mean you get the latest security updates and open source technologies. Flatcar Container Linux is designed from the ground up for running container workloads. It fully embraces the container paradigm, including only what is required to run containers. Your immutable infrastructure deserves an immutable Linux OS. With Flatcar Container Linux, you manage your infrastructure, not your configuration. -
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KDevelop
KDE
KDevelop is a Free and Open Source integrated development environment (IDE). It provides editing, navigation and debugging features for several programming languages, as well as integration with multiple build systems and version-control systems, using a plugin-based architecture. KDevelop has parser backends for C, C++ and Javascript/QML, with further external plugins supporting e.g. PHP or Python. KDevelop Windows installers are also available to download from the binary-factory. These versions don’t contains the translations and are intended for testing purpose. Get involved and help us making them better! This release brings half a year of work, focused mainly on stability, performance, and future maintainability. Many existing features have received small improvements again, and there is one highly-visible addition, optional display of inline notes for problems at the end of the line. -
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Sphinx
Sphinx
Sphinx is an open source full text search server, designed from the ground up with performance, relevance (aka search quality), and integration simplicity in mind. It's written in C++ and works on Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, etc), Windows, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and a few other systems. Sphinx lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily, or index and search data on the fly, working with Sphinx pretty much as with a database server. A variety of text processing features enable fine-tuning Sphinx for your particular application requirements, and a number of relevance functions ensures you can tweak search quality as well. Searching via SphinxAPI is as simple as 3 lines of code, and querying via SphinxQL is even simpler, with search queries expressed in good old SQL. Sphinx indexes up to 10-15 MB of text per second per single CPU core, that is 60+ MB/sec per server (on a dedicated indexing machine). -
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Apache Tomcat
Apache
The Apache Tomcat® software is an open source implementation of the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, Jakarta WebSocket, Jakarta Annotations and Jakarta Authentication specifications. These specifications are part of the Jakarta EE platform. Apache Tomcat software powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. Some of these users and their stories are listed on the PoweredBy wiki page. The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 10.0.10 of Apache Tomcat. This release implements specifications that are part of the Jakarta EE 9 platform. -
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Podman
Containers
What is Podman? Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Simply put: alias docker=podman. Manage pods, containers, and container images. Supporting docker swarm. We believe that Kubernetes is the defacto standard for composing Pods and for orchestrating containers, making Kubernetes YAML a defacto standard file format. Hence, Podman allows the creation and execution of Pods from a Kubernetes YAML file (see podman-play-kube). Podman can also generate Kubernetes YAML based on a container or Pod (see podman-generate-kube), which allows for an easy transition from a local development environment to a production Kubernetes cluster. -
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Magit
Magit
Magit is a complete text-based user interface to Git. It fills the glaring gap between the Git command-line interface and various GUIs, letting you perform trivial as well as elaborate version control tasks with just a couple of mnemonic key presses. Magit looks like a prettified version of what you get after running a few Git commands but in Magit every bit of visible information is also actionable to an extent that goes far beyond what any Git GUI provides and it takes care of automatically refreshing this output when it becomes outdated. In the background Magit just runs Git commands and if you wish you can see what exactly is being run, making it possible for you to learn the git command-line by using Magit. Using Magit for a while will make you a more effective version control user. Magit supports and streamlines the use of Git features that most users and developers of other Git clients apparently thought could not be reasonably mapped to a non-command-line interface. -
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Aurees
Aurees
Aurees Git Client is easy, fast and productive Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is a fully Free, comes bundled with an attractive interface. Clear user experience, insightful highlighting, powerful editable diff. Outstanding merge with preview, and productive conflict resolution. Aurees Git Client is a streamlined git client for viewing, editing and publishing changes from your desktop. An attractive interface and full-fledged integrated diff helping manage Git repositories with minimal effort. No more need to search external diff tools or switch between text editors and git client while working. The client shows commit changes in side by side text editors, where you can see the changes and rollback in a click. Merging is easy with the Aurees Git. It's available for Windows and Mac and it’s free for personal use. Aurees' interface is very intuitive and clean. -
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GitEye
CollabNet
CollabNet GitEye is a desktop for Git. It works with TeamForge, CloudForge and other Git services. GitEye combines a simple-to-use graphical Git client with central visibility into essential developer tasks such as defect tracking, Agile planning, code reviews and build services. GitEye is a graphical Git client for Windows, OSX and Linux. CollabNet GitEye provides a simple-to-use graphical Git client with central visibility into essential developer tasks such as defect tracking, agile planning, code reviews and build services. It’s easy to get started. GitEye works with multiple Git implementations including TeamForge, CloudForge and GitHub, and runs on most platforms. Say good-bye to the command line. Simple-to-use graphical Git client provides access to all vital Git functions including clone, commit, merge, rebase, push, fetch, pull, stash, stage, reset and more. -
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gitg
GNOME
gitg is a graphical user interface for git. It aims at being a small, fast and convenient tool to visualize the history of git repositories. Besides visualization, gitg also provides several utilities to manage your repository and commit your work. When gitg is installed, you can run gitg from the GNOME menu, or from a terminal by issueing: 'gitg'. Type 'gitg --help' to show the options you can specify on the command line. -
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GitForce
GitForce
It is designed to be easy and intuitive to use and yet powerful enough so you don't need to use a command line git. GitForce is written in C# and uses .NET 3.5 framework. The same binary file (“GitForce.exe”) runs as-is on both Windows and Linux operating systems (or any other OS with Mono support). The tool consists of only one executable file and needs no installer – just copy it to a folder of your choice and run it. Consequently, the main requirements are having .NET support (or Mono runtime on Linux) and the actual git command line tool, already installed and working. That said, GitForce is still powerful enough to be used exclusively, without calling up a command line git tool. It likely fully satisfies needs of a great majority of users. I hope that this tool will help many users who are new to git and also to people already familiar with Perforce (a similar source control front-end tool.) -
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Hugo
Hugo
The world’s fastest framework for building websites. Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again. Hugo is the fastest tool of its kind. At <1 ms per page, the average site builds in less than a second. Hugo supports unlimited content types, taxonomies, menus, dynamic API-driven content, and more, all without plugins. We love the beautiful simplicity of markdown’s syntax, but there are times when we want more flexibility. Hugo shortcodes allow for both beauty and flexibility. Hugo ships with pre-made templates to make quick work of SEO, commenting, analytics and other functions. One line of code, and you're done. Hugo provides full i18n support for multi-language sites with the same straightforward development experience Hugo users love in single-language sites. Hugo allows you to output your content in multiple formats, including JSON or AMP, and makes it easy to create your own. -
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DeepGit
Syntevo
Answer the question "why is this code there?" more effectively than with conventional Git clients. DeepGit is a tool to investigate the history of source code. It is based on git blame and makes it easy to trace changes to a line or block of code. DeepGit will detect code movements, even if lines are not identical. DeepGit is free to use for everyone, even in a commercial environment. Integrate DeepGit with any IDE which supports external tools: Eclipse, Visual Studio, IntelliJ Idea, ... and powerful text editors like Sublime. Check out the tour to understand how DeepGit is working. Use DeepGit on Windows, macOS and Linux. DeepGit will generate a blame for the selected file. Once finished, it will analyze the selected line and its vicinity for its origin. Note that the origin which DeepGit has found is not exactly equal to the left counterpart. Also note that despite selecting just a single line, DeepGit has estimated a block of lines as an optimal match. -
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Arduino IDE
Arduino
Start coding online and save your sketches in the cloud. The most up-to-date version of the IDE includes all libraries and also supports new Arduino boards. The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board. This software can be used with any Arduino board. Active development of the Arduino software is hosted by GitHub. See the instructions for building the code. Latest release source code archives are available in our website. The archives are PGP-signed so they can be verified using this gpg key. To program Arduino from a Chromebook, you can use the Arduino Web Editor on Arduino Cloud. The desktop version of the IDE is not available on Chrome OS. The new major release of the Arduino IDE is faster and even more powerful! In addition to a more modern editor and a more responsive interface it features autocompletion, code navigation, and even a live debugger. -
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MPLAB X IDE
Microchip
MPLAB® X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is an expandable, highly configurable software program that incorporates powerful tools to help you discover, configure, develop, debug and qualify embedded designs for most of our microcontrollers and digital signal controllers. MPLAB X IDE works seamlessly with the MPLAB development ecosystem of software and tools, many of which are completely free. No need to purchase extra visualizations tools since real-time streaming data can be viewed in Data Visualizer. Pin states can be verified and manipulated with I/O View for fast hardware verification. Save time with useful links to software libraries, datasheets and user guides that are provided automatically. Includes the MPLAB Integrated Programming Environment (IPE) for production-level programming. MPLAB X IDE brings a host of features to help you quickly debug your projects and minimize your development time. -
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MPLAB Data Visualizer
Microchip
Troubleshooting your code's run-time behavior has never been easier. MPLAB® Data Visualizer is a free debugging tool that graphically displays run-time variables in an embedded application. Available as a plug-in for MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or a stand-alone debugging tool, it can receive data from various sources such as the Embedded Debugger Data Gateway Interface (DGI) and COM ports. You can also track your application's run-time behavior using a terminal or graph. To get started with visualizing data, check out the Curiosity Nano Development Platform and Xplained Pro Evaluation Kits. Capture data streamed from a running embedded target via serial port (CDC) or the Data Gateway Interface (DGI). Concurrently stream data and debug target code using MPLAB® X IDE. Decode data fields at runtime using the Data Stream Protocol format. Visualize the raw or decoded data in a graph as a time series or display the data in a terminal. -
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MULTI IDE
Green Hills Software
After more than three decades of customer use and continuous enhancement, the MULTI Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is unmatched in the embedded software industry. Developers know they can rely on MULTI to help them produce high-quality code and get their devices to market faster. Whether pinpointing a hard-to-find bug, resolving a memory leak, or maximizing system performance, MULTI consistently works. Every feature of our revolutionary Debugger is designed to quickly solve problems that stump traditional tools. It often takes weeks or months to track down problems like inter-task corruptions, missed real-time requirements, and external hardware events. Green Hills' TimeMachine tool suite helps you solve the same problems in hours or even minutes. The TimeMachine tool suite automatically captures program execution data, combining the MULTI Debugger interface with innovative replay debugging capabilities. -
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AdaMULTI IDE
Green Hills Software
The AdaMULTI IDE brings the industry-leading debug and development tools of Green Hills MULTI IDE to Ada developers. For decades customers have used our tools and optimizing compilers to dramatically improve their debugging productivity. The result? A more reliable product, brought to market more quickly, with lower development costs. AdaMULTI distills almost three decades of debugging expertise into a comprehensive embedded software development toolbox that provides all the capabilities you need to create reliable software efficiently. Our revolutionary debugger is designed to quickly solve problems that stump traditional tools. For those bugs that use to take weeks to track down, the TimeMachine tool suite helps you solve the same problems in hours or even minutes. Clean coding conventions prevent you from introducting new bugs with overly compex code. A simble build configuration and seamlessly integrated tools free you to spend more time developing. -
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DoubleCheck Code Analysis
Green Hills Software
When it comes to ensuring software quality, reliability, and security in today's sophisticated code bases, traditional debugging and testing methods simply fall short. Automated tools such as static source code analyzers are more effective in finding defects that could result in buffer overflows, resource leaks, and other security and reliability issues. This class of defects are often not detected by compilers during standard builds, run-time testing, or typical field operation. While other source code analyzers run as separate tools, DoubleCheck is an integrated static analyzer, built into the Green Hills C/C++ compiler. DoubleCheck leverages accurate and efficient analysis algorithms that have been tuned and field-proven in 30+ years of producing embedded development tools. DoubleCheck can be used as a single integrated tool to perform compilation and defect analysis in the same pass. -
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Green Hills Optimizing Compilers
Green Hills Software
As the pace of microprocessor innovation continues to accelerate, application developers know they can rely on Green Hills Compilers to unlock the hardware's full potential and realize maximum performance and functional safety in their next-generation applications. Green Hills Compilers use the most advanced optimizations to maximize your program's performance even within strict size constraints. For example, our CodeFactor™ optimization speeds your program's execution and reduces its size by removing redundant segments of code via subroutine calls and tail merges. Static basing provides the same benefits (faster speed, smaller size) by grouping data items to significantly reduce the number of load address operations. Every one of our optimizations, whether it's our own innovation or an industry standard, is meticulously implemented. Continuing three decades of engineering excellence, we painstakingly research and then test each one against hundreds of benchmarks. -
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nano
nano
GNU nano was designed to be a free replacement for the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email suite from The University of Washington. It aimed to "emulate Pico as closely as is reasonable and then include extra functionality". The Debian GNU/Linux distribution, known for its strict standards in distributing truly "free" software (i.e. software with no restrictions on redistribution), would not include a binary package for Pine or Pico. Many people had a serious dilemma: they loved these programs, but the versions available at the time were not truly free software in the GNU sense of the word. GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers features like undo/redo, syntax coloring, interactive search-and-replace, auto-indentation, line numbers, word completion, file locking, backup files, and internationalization support. Starting with version 4.0, nano no longer hard-wraps an overlong line by default. -
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Spacemacs
Spacemacs
A community-driven Emacs distribution. The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim! Spacemacs is a new way to experience Emacs, a sophisticated and polished set-up focused on ergonomics, mnemonics and consistency. Key bindings are organized using mnemonic prefixes like b for buffer, p for project, s for search, h for help etc. Innovative real-time display of available key bindings. Simple query system to quickly find available layers, packages and more. Similar functionalities have the same key binding everywhere thanks to a clearly defined set of conventions. Community-driven configuration provides curated packages tuned by power users and bugs are fixed quickly. -
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ActiveState
ActiveState
ActiveState provides software development teams with the world's most comprehensive library of secure and trusted open source, over 79 million vetted components across all major language ecosystems (e.g., Java, Javascript, Python, R, Go, etc.), including transitive dependencies and OS-level libraries. By building everything from source, we ensure that every component is what it says it is, contains the fewest amount of vulnerabilities, and is continuously remediated. Companies can consume this open source where and when they need it - through their existing artifact repositories, as container images or managed distributions, or via IDPs. When teams transfer their open source responsibility to ActiveState, developers and security teams break free from the endless cycle of vulnerability management. Developers gain confidence knowing their code will make it to production faster and with less friction. Security gains assurance that policy and compliance standards are met by default. -
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Eclipse CDT
Eclipse Foundation
The CDT Project provides a fully functional C and C++ integrated development environment based on the Eclipse platform. Features include support for project creation and managed build for various toolchains, standard make build, source navigation, various source knowledge tools, such as type hierarchy, call graph, include browser, macro definition browser, code editor with syntax highlighting, folding and hyperlink navigation, source code refactoring and code generation, visual debugging tools, including memory, registers, and disassembly viewers. Adds concept of build configuration to the core model. Allows assignment of toolchains to standard makefile projects. Combined previous standard and managed project wizards. User selects project types and toolchains. Parameterized templates to help populate new projects. Very flexible, template actions written with the plug-in. Semantic highlighting amongst other editor improvements. -
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Eclipse PHP
Eclipse Foundation
The PHP IDE project delivers a PHP Integrated Development Environment framework for the Eclipse platform. This project encompasses the development components necessary to develop PHP-based web applications and facilitates extensibility. It leverages the existing web tools project in providing developers with PHP capabilities. The essential starting point for PHP developers, including a PHP language support, a Git client, XML Editor and Mylyn, terminal. The experience of developing PHP application with PDT can be extended with a large variety of plugins created by the Eclipse ecosystem. Syntax highlighting, syntax validation, content assistance, code navigation, PHP debugging (Zend Debugger / Xdebug), PHP Profiling (Zend Debugger / Xdebug), PHPUnit, code formatted, refactoring, code templates, remote projects, and the whole power of the Eclipse Ecosystem. -
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HTML-NOTEPAD
HTML-NOTEPAD
It is a WYSIWYG editor of structured documents, texts that have hierarchical and semantically meaningful structure, headers, lists, plaintext islands, tables and so on. HTML-NOTEPAD is not a “web page editor”. Don’t even expect to create “cool web pages” with it. With modern CSS, WYSIWYG Web design is simply impossible. Web pages are crafted manually by editing CSS, that is by nature of CSS. But still, HTML-NOTEPAD can be useful for Web designers too, for the cases when we need to create textual (yet structural) content of our pages. HTML-NOTEPAD uses Sciter Engine for its UI. That means it is small, fast, does not have external dependencies and works on all major desktop operating systems, Windows (from XP to 10), Mac OS, and Linux. WYSIWYG editing has limitations, some operations are significantly more convenient to do in source code representation. That’s why HTML-NOTEPAD supports “pass-through selection”. -
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KompoZer
KompoZer
KompoZer combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web page editing tools to help you create an attractive, professional-looking website without needing to know HTML or web coding. Get your business online with ease, create a website, start a blog or build an online store and scale your online business fast. Signup for a free web builder and hosting to setup your website. Choose the kind of website you want to create. Start to design and build your own high-quality websites. Add unique features you need to launch and manage your online business with ease. Start your own blog, add a logo, accept bookings online and add an online store. Every online business starts with a website. Build your first website in minutes for free, even if it’s your first time creating a site. Choose from a variety of stunning free HTML website templates to build your website into what you want. -
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Light Table
Light Table
Connects you to your creation with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code. Easily customizable from keybinds to extensions to be completely tailored to your specific project. Try new ideas quickly and easily. Ask questions about your software, to give you a more profound understanding of your code. Embed anything you want, from graphs to games to running visualizations. Everything from eval and debugging to a fuzzy finder for files and commands to fit seamlessly into your workflow. An elegant, lightweight, beautifully designed layout so your IDE is no longer cluttered. No more printing to the console in order to view your results. Simply evaluate your code and the results will be displayed inline. Developer tools should be open source. Every bit of Light Table's code is available to the community because none of us are as smart as all of us. -
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jEdit
jEdit
jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL 2.0. Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Hundreds of macros and plugins available. Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the "plugin manager" feature. Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode. Highly configurable and customizable. Every other feature, both basic and advanced, you would expect to find in a text editor. -
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eApps
eApps
Enterprise-grade "virtual data center" platform for admin, deployment and operation of advanced web services. For multiple servers, complex deployments, geo-spanning, DR/HA configurations, and more. Latest spec Hypervisors and fast, expandable SSD block storage. Fast, solid platform for websites, web apps, and web services. Supports large, custom-sized virtual servers, adjustable at any time. Handles heavy workloads using the latest spec Hypervisors and fast, expandable SSD block storage. Next-generation platform for development, rapid deployment, and operation of critical apps. Superior Vertical/Horizontal autoscaling. Strong Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Node.js, Golan, Docker, and Kubernetes support. Our platforms have included, and optional, services that are designed to ensure security, performance, uptime, and worry-free operation. We offer custom solutions for your requirements. Let us solve your backup, VPN, high uptime, and data protection needs.
