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The widest category on the site. Anything that makes writing software faster, cleaner, or less painful counts — language toolchains, linters, formatters, type checkers, bundlers, package managers, test runners, build systems, polyglot toolboxes, terminal utilities, and the long tail of small CLIs people drop into dotfiles. The Rust rewrite wave hasn't slowed. Every month another aging JavaScript or Python tool gets a Rust rewrite that's 10-50x faster, and the well-built ones earn lasting adoption inside a year. The polyglot toolchain wave (Biome, Bun, Deno) keeps consolidating multiple tools into single binaries, which changes how teams pick their stack. The small-CLI tail keeps producing breakouts that hit Hacker News' front page and end up in everyone's shell config. The ranking gives those small projects a fair shot at the top — a tool with 800 stars and 4,000 daily downloads outranks one with 80,000 stars and a flat trend. The /best/developer-tools page is the curated cut; this is the full feed.