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Developer Tools software
35 products matching your filters. Each one described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.
Showing 1–24 of 35


Bazel
Multi-language build system with fast, correct incremental builds
Free- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

Blacksmith
2x faster GitHub Actions with 60% cost savings
Free plan, then $0.004/minute- Linux
- Windows
- macOS
3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

Cloud Native Buildpacks
Specification and tooling that turns source code into OCI images without Dockerfiles
Free- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
- +2
3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

Coder
Self-hosted platform for provisioning governed cloud development environments
Free plan available- Web
- Linux
- macOS
- +2
2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

Dagger
Programmable CI/CD engine that runs your pipeline as containers on any runner
Free plan, then $50/mo- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
- +1
3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

Deep Code
Desktop AI coding assistant that runs on DeepSeek models
Free plan, then $5/mo- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
3 alternatives · 5 questions answered

Eclipse IDE
Open-source, extensible IDE historically centered on Java development
Free- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
3 alternatives · 5 questions answered

Garden
Kubernetes development and testing automation with shared caching, now owned by Incredibuild
Free- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
- +1
3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer for developers
From $10/mo- Web
- Windows
- macOS
- +1
3 alternatives · 4 questions answered
- G
GNU Emacs
Extensible, customizable free text editor and computing environment
Free- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
3 alternatives · 5 questions answered

GoLand
JetBrains IDE for developing applications in Go
From $24/mo- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

Helix
Post-modern modal text editor for the terminal, written in Rust
Free- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
2 alternatives · 5 questions answered

Hookdeck
Event gateway that receives, queues, retries and replays inbound webhooks
Free plan, then $39/mo- Web
- Linux
- macOS
- +1
3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

JetBrains Rider
Cross-platform .NET IDE from JetBrains for C#, F#, VB.NET and Unity
From $18.25/mo- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
2 alternatives · 5 questions answered

Namespace
The dev platform for the next 100 billion commits
Free plan, then $100/mo- Web
- macOS
- Windows
- +1
3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

Nix
Purely functional package manager and the NixOS distribution built on it, for byte-reproducible environments
Free- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

Nixpacks
Build system that turns a source directory into an OCI image, now in maintenance mode
Free- Linux
- macOS
- API
- +1
3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

Okteto
Runs production-like development environments on your own Kubernetes cluster
Free- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
- +3
3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

Ona (formerly Gitpod)
Cloud development environments repositioned as a control plane for software engineering agents
Free plan, then $20/mo- Web
- Linux
- macOS
- +1
3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

Pants Build
Fast, scalable build system with intelligent defaults for Python and more
Free- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

Penpot
Open source design and prototyping platform
Free- Web
- Windows
- macOS
- +1
3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

PhpStorm
JetBrains IDE for PHP web development
From $24/mo- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

Pieces for Developers
AI-powered memory layer that captures and organizes developer work
Free plan, then $18.99/mo- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
2 alternatives · 5 questions answered
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