Ask HN: Gems in Your Tech Stack?

by riyanapatel on 4/18/2025, 6:23:43 PM with 4 comments
What's your favorite programming tool or software you swear by that isn't talked about enough?

  • by pimbrouwers on 4/18/2025, 8:38:42 PM

    Recency bias playing a factor here. But System.Data.SQLite. When you scan around the offerings of the other top-shelf languages, it becomes quickly evident how good/reliable that DLL is. Not to mention that it's maintained by he SQLite team. SQLite has been having a moment in the sun, and this is the perfect package to use it in production.

  • by solardev on 4/19/2025, 4:21:32 PM

    It's all gems if you use enough Ruby.