Best Application Development Software for Mac - Page 30

Compare the Top Application Development Software for Mac as of May 2026 - Page 30

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    Swagger Codegen
    Swagger Codegen can simplify your build process by generating server stubs and client SDKs for any API, defined with the OpenAPI (formerly known as Swagger) specification, so your team can focus better on your API’s implementation and adoption. Moving from design to development has never been easier with Swagger Codegen in SwaggerHub. API Definition files can be used to create stubs in popular languages, like Java, Scala, and Ruby, with just a few clicks.
    Starting Price: Free
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    NSwag

    NSwag

    Rico Suter

    NSwag is a comprehensive Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0 and 3.0 toolchain for .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, and TypeScript, written in C#. It enables developers to generate OpenAPI specifications from existing API controllers and create client code from these specifications. NSwag combines functionalities similar to Swashbuckle (for OpenAPI/Swagger generation) and AutoRest (for client generation) into a single toolchain, eliminating the need for both. Key features include the ability to generate Swagger 2.0 and OpenAPI 3.0 specifications from C# ASP.NET (Core) controllers, serve these specifications via ASP.NET (Core) middleware with integrated Swagger UI or ReDoc, and generate C# or TypeScript clients/proxies from the specifications. NSwag offers multiple usage methods, including a user-friendly Windows GUI (NSwagStudio), command-line interfaces compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux, and integration into C# code via NuGet packages.
    Starting Price: Free
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    REST United

    REST United

    REST United

    REST United is a platform that simplifies the process of generating Software Development Kits (SDKs) for REST APIs across multiple programming languages, including PHP, Python, Ruby, ActionScript (Flash), C#, Android, Objective-C, Scala, and Java. In just five simple steps, users can create SDKs accompanied by highly customizable documentation featuring easy-to-follow example code, enhancing developer engagement. The platform also leverages the Postman Chrome plug-in to facilitate testing and debugging of REST APIs, streamlining the development workflow. For those designing their own REST APIs using frameworks like Node.js, Ruby Sinatra, Scala Scalatra, or Java JAX-RS, REST United offers assistance in generating server-side code. Support is readily available, with the promise of responses within 12 hours to any inquiries. Overall, REST United aims to make REST API development more accessible and efficient by providing tools that bridge the gap between API design and implementation.
    Starting Price: $1 per month
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    Kiota

    Kiota

    Microsoft

    Kiota is a client, plugin, and manifest generator for HTTP REST APIs described by OpenAPI. Available as a command-line tool and a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension, Kiota enables developers to search for API descriptions, filter and select specific endpoints, and generate models and a chained method API surface in various programming languages. This approach eliminates the need to depend on different API clients for each API and allows for precise generation of the required API surface area. Additionally, Kiota facilitates participation in the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem by enabling the generation of API plugins. The VS Code extension enhances the Kiota experience with a rich user interface, supporting features such as searching for API descriptions, filtering endpoints, and generating API clients. Users can select desired endpoints and generate clients, plugins, or other outputs, with completion notifications and easy access to generated outputs within the workspace.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Defang

    Defang

    Defang

    Defang is a developer-centric platform that simplifies the process of developing, deploying, and debugging cloud applications. By leveraging AI-assisted tooling, Defang enables developers to swiftly transition from an idea to a deployed application on their preferred cloud provider. The platform supports multiple programming languages, including Go, JavaScript, and Python, allowing developers to start with sample projects or generate project outlines using natural language prompts. With a single command, Defang builds and deploys applications, handling configurations for computing, storage, load balancing, networking, logging, and security. The Defang Command Line Interface (CLI) facilitates interactions with the platform, offering installation options via shell scripts, Homebrew, Winget, Nix, or direct download. Developers can define services using compose.yaml files, which Defang utilizes to deploy applications to the cloud.
    Starting Price: $10 per month
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    Duckly

    Duckly

    Duckly

    Duckly enables you to talk and share your code in real time with developers using any IDE. Duckly is an IDE plugin that facilitates real-time code collaboration among developers using different integrated development environments. It enables users to share code, terminal sessions, and local servers, while also providing audio and video communication directly within the IDE. All connections are peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted, ensuring secure collaboration. By integrating these features, Duckly streamlines pair programming, code reviews, and team collaboration, enhancing productivity and reducing the need for multiple external tools. Talk with audio, and video and share your screen directly inside of your IDE. Share your code in real time with people using a different IDE than you. Share your local server with your team and let them see the changes in real time. All connections are peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted.
    Starting Price: $6 per month
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    Saros

    Saros

    Saros

    An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plugin that facilitates real-time collaborative editing for distributed software development teams. Compatible with Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA, it enables multiple developers to work concurrently on shared projects, with each participant maintaining a local copy of the project synchronized in real time. Key features include support for multiple concurrent writers, a follow-mode to observe team members' navigation and editing activities, and awareness information displaying recent contributions and current selections of all participants. Saros supports sessions with up to five participants and allows users to host their own servers to keep all communication within their network. This design enhances collaborative coding experiences, making it suitable for scenarios such as pair programming, code reviews, and mentoring.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Code::Blocks

    Code::Blocks

    Code::Blocks

    Code::Blocks is a free, open-source, cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) primarily designed for C, C++, and Fortran development. Known for its lightweight design and modular structure, Code::Blocks offers a highly customizable interface with support for multiple compilers, including GCC, Clang, and Microsoft Visual C++. It features an intuitive, user-friendly interface with essential tools like syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion, and a robust debugging environment with breakpoints, variable inspection, and call stack tracing. Code::Blocks is highly extensible through plugins, enabling developers to add features like version control, scripting support, and custom build tools. Its lightweight nature, flexibility, and cross-platform compatibility make it a popular choice for students, educators, and developers working on small to medium-sized C/C++ projects.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Hoppscotch

    Hoppscotch

    Hoppscotch LTD.

    Hoppscotch makes it easy to create and test your APIs, helping you to ship products faster. Create APIs faster, test them instantly, document and share them automatically. From prototyping to production - develop without switching tabs. Hoppscotch got everything you need to make API development easy. Create workspaces for your teams. Control access to your workspaces. Work together with your team in real-time. Deploy Hoppscotch on your own servers. Organize your requests in collections or folders and share them with your team. Manage your environment variables and use them everywhere. View and manage your request history. Modify headers, authenticate requests, generate random data, and much more. Test your APIs and write assertions for the response. Use Hoppscotch in your native language. We support 30+ languages. Track all the activities in your workspace. Who did what and when. Use your existing SSO provider to login to Hoppscotch. Manage your users, workspaces, and more.
    Starting Price: $19 per user per month
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    Progressier

    Progressier

    Progressier

    Progressier is a no-code toolkit that transforms existing web applications into fully-featured Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), enhancing user engagement across devices and browsers. It enables universal installation, allowing web apps to be seamlessly installed on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Chrome OS, with step-by-step guidance available in over 20 languages. The platform offers a comprehensive push notification system, facilitating the creation, scheduling, and management of notifications through an intuitive dashboard or API, compatible with various JavaScript frameworks and low-code platforms. Progressier provides a no-code caching strategy builder, allowing users to select predefined strategies and apply them to specific resources, with the platform automatically generating the necessary service worker logic. Additionally, it offers a PWA management suite, enabling centralized control of app components.
    Starting Price: $15 per month
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    Opengrep

    Opengrep

    Opengrep

    Opengrep is an open-source static code analysis engine designed to identify security vulnerabilities within codebases. As a fork of Semgrep, it maintains a similar focus on providing fast and powerful code pattern search capabilities across more than 30 programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, and Go. Opengrep enables developers to define custom rules for pattern matching, facilitating the detection of potential security issues and promoting adherence to coding standards. By integrating Opengrep into the development workflow, teams can proactively address vulnerabilities, thereby enhancing the overall security and reliability of their software projects.
    Starting Price: Free
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    TRAE

    TRAE

    ByteDance

    TRAE is an advanced AI-powered development environment that acts as a 10x engineering assistant for developers. It can autonomously understand project requirements, write code, debug issues, and deliver complete software solutions. TRAE integrates seamlessly into your workflow with intelligent features like real-time collaboration, contextual understanding, and predictive coding assistance. Its SOLO mode enables developers to build, test, and deploy entire applications with minimal input. Using Model Context Protocol (MCP), TRAE dynamically connects to tools, APIs, and external data to optimize performance and accuracy. Designed for speed, precision, and security, TRAE empowers developers to ship production-ready software faster than ever before.
    Starting Price: Free
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    PhantomJS

    PhantomJS

    PhantomJS

    PhantomJS is a headless web browser scriptable with JavaScript, running on Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD. Utilizing QtWebKit as its back-end, it offers fast and native support for various web standards, including DOM handling, CSS selectors, JSON, Canvas, and SVG. This makes it an optimal solution for tasks such as page automation, screen capture, headless website testing, and network monitoring. For example, a simple script can load a webpage and capture it as an image.
    Starting Price: Free
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    HtmlUnit

    HtmlUnit

    HtmlUnit

    HtmlUnit is a "GUI-Less browser for Java programs" that models HTML documents and provides an API to interact with web pages, such as invoking pages, filling out forms, and clicking links, similar to a standard web browser. It offers fairly good JavaScript support, which is constantly improving and is capable of handling complex AJAX libraries, simulating browsers like Chrome, Firefox, or Edge depending on the configuration used. Typically used for testing purposes or retrieving information from websites, HtmlUnit is not a generic unit testing framework but is intended to simulate a browser within another testing framework such as JUnit or TestNG. It is utilized as the underlying "browser" by various open source tools like WebDriver, Arquillian Drone, and Serenity BDD, and is employed by many projects for automated web testing, including Apache Shiro, Apache Struts, and Quarkus.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Zombie.js

    Zombie.js

    Zombie.js

    Zombie.js is a lightweight, headless testing framework for Node.js that enables developers to simulate browser environments for testing client-side JavaScript code without the need for a graphical browser. It allows for the automation of web interactions such as form submissions, link clicks, and navigation, facilitating full-stack testing in a simulated environment. Developers can utilize Zombie.js to perform actions like visiting web pages, filling out forms, and asserting conditions within their test suites. The framework integrates seamlessly with testing libraries like Mocha, providing a streamlined approach to writing and executing tests.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SlimerJS

    SlimerJS

    SlimerJS

    SlimerJS is a free, open source scriptable browser for web developers, allowing interaction with web pages through external JavaScript scripts. It enables tasks such as opening web pages, clicking links, and modifying content, making it useful for functional tests, page automation, network monitoring, screen capture, and web scraping. Unlike PhantomJS, SlimerJS runs on top of Gecko, the browser engine of Mozilla Firefox, instead of WebKit, and can operate in both headless and non-headless modes. APIs of SlimerJS are similar to the APIs of PhantomJS but there are a few differences in their behavior. However, most of the scripts for PhantomJS run perfectly well with SlimerJS right now.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Nakama

    Nakama

    Heroic Labs

    Nakama is an open source game server framework developed by Heroic Labs, designed to facilitate the creation of real-time, multiplayer, and social games across various platforms, including Godot, Unity, Unreal Engine, and more. It provides a comprehensive suite of features such as real-time multiplayer capabilities, customizable matchmaking algorithms, leaderboards, in-game chat, and support for in-game currencies. Developers can extend Nakama's functionality using server-side logic written in Go, TypeScript, or Lua, allowing for authoritative game mechanics and enhanced control over game state. The platform also offers open-source client libraries tailored for different game engines and languages, ensuring seamless integration and flexibility in game development. Nakama is your dedicated server, not another multi-tenant SaaS. Add custom features and secure authoritative gameplay logic directly to your game server.
    Starting Price: Free
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    jBrowserDriver

    jBrowserDriver

    Daniel Hollingsworth

    jBrowserDriver is a programmable, embeddable web browser driver compatible with the Selenium WebDriver specification. It is headless, WebKit-based, and written in pure Java. The project is open source and licensed under the Apache License v2.0. To run jBrowserDriver from a remote Selenium server, start the remote Selenium server(s) and use the appropriate code to call jBrowserDriver remotely. For building from source, install and configure Maven v3.x and run mvn clean compile install from the project root. To use in Eclipse, either import the existing Java project from the root directory or import the Maven file. For usage, jBrowserDriver can be used like any other Selenium WebDriver or RemoteWebDriver and works with Selenium Server and Selenium Grid.
    Starting Price: Free
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    WebKit

    WebKit

    WebKit

    WebKit is a fast, open source web browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store, and many other applications on macOS, iOS, and Linux. It serves as the foundation for rendering web content and executing JavaScript in these applications. Developers can contribute to the project by reporting bugs or submitting code. Web developers can follow WebKit's development, check feature status, and download Safari Technology Preview to experiment with the latest web technologies. The project emphasizes real-world web compatibility, standards compliance, stability, performance, battery life, security, privacy, portability, usability, and ease of code modification. WebKit is open source and available under the BSD 2-Clause license, with the exception of the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components, which are available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Phaser

    Phaser

    Phaser

    Phaser is a fast, free, and fun open source HTML5 game framework that offers WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. It has been actively developed for over 10 years. Phaser is built on and around web standards and puts the browser first. Web export isn't an afterthought or checkbox on a feature list; it's our home. Phaser is fully open source, and you have unrestricted access to every last line of code in the core library. Phaser has more ready-made templates than any other game framework and is a great CLI tool. Games made with Phaser have been used as the cornerstone for marketing campaigns for years. They've been deployed everywhere, including as prominent features on sites for major Hollywood film blockbusters, massive brand promotional campaigns, educational content, interactive experiences, TV shows, news reports, charity fund-raising broadcasts, live events marketing, and so many more.
    Starting Price: $9 per month
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    RPG Maker

    RPG Maker

    RPG Maker

    RPG Maker is a series of game development engines that enable users to create their own role-playing games without prior programming experience. Each version of RPG Maker offers unique features and improvements to cater to different development needs. The latest installment, RPG Maker MZ, includes enhancements to the map editor, character generator, database, animations, and plug-ins, allowing for more customization than ever before. RPG Maker MV expands platform support to include MacOSX, Android, and iOS, with improvements to the map editor, higher resolution, and easy-to-use plug-ins. RPG Maker VX Ace is known for its intuitive interface and extensive library of assets and scripts, making it a great starter engine for beginners while still powerful enough for developers. The RPG Maker series provides a comprehensive set of tools, including a versatile map editor for designing environments, a character generator for creating original characters, and more.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Defold

    Defold

    Defold

    Defold is a free and open source game engine designed for high-performance cross-platform game development. It comes fully featured out of the box, requiring no setup or configuration, allowing developers to simply download the editor and start creating. The engine includes a visual editor, code editor, Lua scripting, Lua debugger, scene editor, particle editor, and tilemap editor, and supports both 2D and 3D game development. With a single codebase and no need for external tools, Defold enables publishing to major platforms such as PlayStation5, PlayStation4, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, Windows, Steam, HTML5, and Facebook. It offers a component-based system for building games, allowing the use of basic building blocks to create complex behavior, and supports writing game logic using Lua. Developers can add new functionality from the asset portal, set up their own local build environment, and write native code to extend the engine.
    Starting Price: Free
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    MonoGame

    MonoGame

    MonoGame

    MonoGame is a free and open-source framework that allows developers to create cross-platform games using C# and other .NET languages. It supports multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. MonoGame provides a comprehensive set of features, such as 2D and 3D rendering, sound playback, input handling, and content management, enabling the development of high-quality games across various genres. The framework is a re-implementation of Microsoft's XNA 4 API, ensuring familiarity for developers with XNA experience. Notable games developed with MonoGame include "Streets of Rage 4," "Carrion," "Celeste," and "Stardew Valley." MonoGame is actively maintained by the MonoGame Foundation and its community, with ongoing updates and support.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Gideros

    Gideros

    Gideros

    Gideros is a free and open-source cross-platform game development framework that enables developers to create high-performance 2D games using the Lua programming language. It offers instant testing on real devices through Wi-Fi, eliminating the need for lengthy export or deployment processes. Built on C/C++ and OpenGL, Gideros ensures that games run at native speed, fully utilizing the power of CPUs and GPUs. The framework supports easy extension through plugins, allowing developers to import existing code in C, C++, Java, or Objective-C and bind it to Lua. Gideros provides its own class system with standard object-oriented programming practices, enabling clean and reusable code. The comprehensive development environment includes a lightweight IDE, players for desktops and devices, a texture packer, and a font creator. Gideros supports multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and HTML5.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Solar2D

    Solar2D

    Solar2D

    Solar2D is a Lua-based game engine focused on ease of iterations and usage. As a fully open-source project forked from the well-established and widely used Corona SDK game engine, Solar2D allows developers to create applications for mobile, desktop, and connected TV devices with a single codebase, supporting platforms such as iOS, tvOS, Android, Android TV, macOS, Windows, Linux, and HTML5. The engine features an instant-update simulator, enabling developers to see code changes in real time, and supports live builds for rapid testing on real devices over a local network. A vast array of plugins is available to extend the core functionality, covering aspects like in-app advertising, analytics, and media. For additional customization, developers can call any native (C/C++/Obj-C/Java) library or API using Solar2D Native. Built on the lightweight and fast Lua scripting language, Solar2D is completely free to use, with no hidden fees, charges, or royalties.
    Starting Price: Free
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    raylib

    raylib

    raylib

    raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy video game programming. It is a programming library to enjoy video game programming; no fancy interface, no visual helpers, no GUI tools or editors, just coding in a pure spartan-programmers way. raylib does not provide the typical API documentation or a big set of tutorials. The library is designed to be minimalistic and be learned just from a cheat sheet with all required functionality and a big collection of examples to see how to use that functionality. The best way to learn to code is by reading code. raylib supports multiple target platforms, it has been tested in the following ones but, technically, any platform that supports C language and OpenGL graphics (or similar) can run raylib or it can be very easily ported to. You can use raylib with multiple programming languages, there are over 60 bindings. raylib can be combined with several extra libraries for additional functionality.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SceneKit

    SceneKit

    SceneKit

    SceneKit is a high-level 3D graphics framework from Apple that enables developers to create immersive 3D experiences for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS applications. Built atop Metal and OpenGL, SceneKit provides a descriptive API for importing, manipulating, and rendering 3D assets. Developers can construct complex scenes using nodes (SCNNode), each representing elements like geometry, lights, cameras, or other attributes. The framework supports a range of features, including a physics engine (SCNPhysicsBody) for realistic simulations, particle systems for effects like fire or rain, and integration with ARKit to add 3D content to augmented reality experiences. SceneKit also offers tools for organizing scenes, such as the scene graph, which allows for the hierarchical structuring of nodes. Additionally, developers can utilize the SceneKit Scene Editor within Xcode to assemble assets into scenes, streamlining the development process.
    Starting Price: Free
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    GameplayKit
    GameplayKit is a collection of foundational tools and technologies for building games in iOS, OS X, and tvOS. Building, evolving, and maintaining a sophisticated game requires a well-planned design, GameplayKit provides architectural tools to help you design modular, scalable game architecture with minimal effort. Creating great games also requires deploying complex algorithms to solve the problems underlying common game mechanics, GameplayKit also provides standard implementations of such algorithms, allowing you to spend more time on the features that make your gameplay unique. Because GameplayKit is independent of high-level game engine technologies, you can combine it with any of those technologies to build a complete game, SpriteKit for 2D games, SceneKit for 3D games, or a custom or third-party game engine using Metal or OpenGL ES. For games with less demanding graphics needs, you can even use GameplayKit with UIKit (in iOS or tvOS) or AppKit (in OS X).
    Starting Price: Free
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    AMPL

    AMPL

    AMPL

    AMPL is a powerful and intuitive modeling language designed to represent and solve complex optimization problems. It enables users to formulate mathematical models in a syntax that closely mirrors algebraic notation, facilitating a clear and concise representation of variables, objectives, and constraints. AMPL supports a wide range of problem types, including linear programming, nonlinear programming, mixed-integer programming, and more. One of its key strengths is the ability to separate models and data, allowing for flexibility and scalability in handling large-scale problems. The platform offers seamless integration with numerous solvers, both commercial and open-source, providing users with the flexibility to choose the most appropriate solver for their specific needs. AMPL is available across multiple operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and Linux, and offers various licensing options.
    Starting Price: $3,000 per year
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    Wasp

    Wasp

    Wasp, Inc.

    Wasp is a full-stack web application framework that allows developers to build apps faster with less boilerplate code. It integrates React for frontend development, Node.js for backend, and Prisma for database management, enabling developers to focus on the essential parts of their app. The framework’s declarative syntax and simplified configuration mean that developers can describe their app's high-level structure in a .wasp file, and the system automatically handles much of the repetitive work, including routing, authentication, and API management. Wasp's goal is to simplify app development without sacrificing flexibility, making it ideal for building MVPs and production-ready applications.
    Starting Price: Free
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