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Re:Top Developer Tools of 2016 by minimuffins on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @01:38PM (#13376285)
The results are in, folks, and The NUMBER ONE programming tool of the year IS:

The general purpose computer! Let's hear a round of applause!

The article reads like an ad for a bunch of commercial services. I was really hoping for things I could apt-get/brew install <excellent new tool>.

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Re:Top Developer Tools of 2016 by SkyMarshal on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:21PM (#13377175)
Unfortunately general purpose computing appears to be dying, slowly but surely. Talos recently wrote a good survey of the problems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361389

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