Ask HN: Best Dev Tool pitches of all time?

• TypeScript

  1,305 98,060 9.9 TypeScript

  TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  

The TypeScript website is very convincing: https://www.typescriptlang.org/

I was just learning JavaScript, heard a lot about TypeScript, but scrolling on this page was what convinced me to learn TypeScript. (And I am deeply skeptical of Microsoft and I've was hesitant at the time to learn JS tools and frameworks.)

• .emacs.d

  19 1,382 5.2 Emacs Lisp

  My personal emacs settings, and the ones used in @emacsrocks (by magnars)

Emacs Rocks has some great demos, they are very well-structured https://emacsrocks.com/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Light Table

  10 11,740 0.0 Clojure

  Discontinued The Light Table IDE ⛺

  

I think the closest we got to a closure of Light Table is this: https://chris-granger.com/2014/10/01/beyond-light-table/

Which includes:

> Light Table will continue to go on strong. We haven’t talked too much about it lately, but it’s used by tens of thousands of people and still growing. We use it every day to help us build Eve and thanks to the awesome people in the community that has sprung up around it, it gets better every week.

Judging by GitHub contribution data (https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/graphs/contributors...), it seems there has only been 25 commits (from one author) since Sep 20, 2019.

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