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12 developer tools on the wall

The oldest developer tool still running

curl, running 28 years since 1997.

28y 355d curl has outlasted every other developer tool here.
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curl (1997), Transmit (1998) and Ruby on Rails (2004) lead the 12 developer tools still running. The list spans 17 years, from curl to Kubernetes (2014), and only counts products with a written entry and a founding date; nothing here is dated from a Product Hunt launch. Closed developer tools are on the closed list.

Ranked by how long it has run

oldest first

  1. curl since 1997 28y 355d
  2. Transmit since 1998 28y 304d
  3. Ruby on Rails since 2004 21y 323d
  4. Django since 2005 21y 103d
  5. jQuery since 2006 20y 67d
  6. tmux since 2007 18y 346d
  7. GitHub since 2008 18y 205d
  8. Stack Overflow since 2008 18y 47d
  9. Homebrew since 2009 17y 165d
  10. Laravel since 2011 15y 145d
  11. Docker since 2013 13y 226d
  12. Kubernetes since 2014 12y 147d

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