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12 developer tools on the wall

The oldest developer tool still running

curl, running 28 years 310 days since 1997.

28y 310d curl has outlasted every other developer tool here.
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Ranked by how long it has run

oldest first

  1. curl since 1997 28y 310d
  2. Transmit since 1998 28y 259d
  3. Ruby on Rails since 2004 21y 278d
  4. Django since 2005 21y 58d
  5. jQuery since 2006 20y 22d
  6. tmux since 2007 18y 301d
  7. GitHub since 2008 18y 160d
  8. Stack Overflow since 2008 18y 2d
  9. Homebrew since 2009 17y 120d
  10. Laravel since 2011 15y 100d
  11. Docker since 2013 13y 181d
  12. Kubernetes since 2014 12y 102d

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