Best open-source developer command-line tools for personal use

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AI & LLM tooling 94Agents & frameworks 31Local inference 8RAG & vector DBs 7Coding assistants 42Evals & observability 3Agent skills 10MCP servers 22Developer tools 106Web frameworks 6Databases & backends 6Editors & IDEs 6API tools 3Self-hosted apps 19Notes & docs 9Automation 13Data & analytics 8Infra & DevOps 24Security & identity 25Communication 2Media & photos 9Design & creative 3

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Web 27Docker / self-host 35Desktop 53Mobile 12CLI 106Library / SDK 164Extension / plugin 10

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Carbon Languagecarbon-language/carbon-lang

Experimental successor to C++PersonalEnterpriseDeveloper toolsCLI★ 34kcommit 2 days ago

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websocketdjoewalnes/websocketd

Turn any program into a WebSocket serverPersonalEnterpriseDeveloper toolsCLI★ 17kBSD-2-Clausecommit 4 weeks ago

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lsdlsd-rs/lsd

Next-gen ls commandPersonalDeveloper toolsCLI★ 16kApache-2.0commit 2 months ago

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NvChadNvChad/NvChad

Fast Neovim configurationPersonalEditors & IDEsCLI★ 29kGPL-3.0commit 3 months ago

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nix-darwinnix-darwin/nix-darwin

Manage macOS with NixPersonalDeveloper toolsCLI★ 6kMITcommit 2 months ago

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Oh my tmux!gpakosz/.tmux

Pretty, versatile tmux configurationPersonalDeveloper toolsCLI★ 25kMITcommit 2 months ago

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