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a Go HTTP load testing tool and library designed for constant-rate attacks, good for SLO/rate-limit validation.

IBM's Java IDE and the spiritual ancestor of Eclipse. Built on Smalltalk internals; discontinued in 2007.

Symantec's pioneering Java IDE and InfoWorld's 1997 Product of the Year. Passed to WebGain and discontinued in 2002.

Vite is a frontend build tool for JavaScript, designed around rapid development cycles. It's framework-agnostic and says it has "sensible defaults," much like most tools in its space.

Microsoft's free, ubiquitous code editor with Java support via extension pack. Not a full IDE but widely used for Java.

a Javascript frontend framework designed to be implemented either incrementally or "full app" - you can use it as a library and add it in pieces or write your app around it.

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format designed as a portable compilation target for multiple languages. It runs in browsers at near-native speed alongside JavaScript, and increasingly in server-side runtimes

a battle-tested JS bundler. Extremely powerful and configurable, but complex and slow on large projects.

an extensible terminal IRC client with a plugin architecture, scriptable in Python, Perl, Ruby, and others.

Wikipedia is... look, you know what wikipedia is. It's a publicly-editable encyclopedia. Because the public can edit it, it's useful but not considered reliable beyond crowdsourcing.

a modern, minimal VPN protocol using Curve25519 + ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption, built into the Linux kernel and available as a pure Go userspace implementation

a pure Go userspace implementation of WireGuard that runs without kernel modules or elevated privileges

a modern HTTP benchmarking tool with multi-threaded event loop, Lua scripting for custom requests, and minimal overhead.

XferLang is a typed, delimiter-driven data format for data transfer, configuration, and structured content; however, it has explicit types, interpolated strings, bound data references, and processing instructions.

XML stands for "Extensible Markup Language," and is a variant of SGML; XML is a markup language that allows documents to be strictly or loosely specified, verifiable, and heavily structured. It's well known for being *in

the W3C XML Schema Definition Language - a grammar-based schema language for describing the structure and data types of XML documents; the most widely deployed XML validation standard

YAML Ain't Markup Language. It's intended to be a human-friendly data serialization format, and largely achieves this, although its structures are a little generalized for use everywhere.

a systems programming language billed as yet another successor to C. It's got some run there, but like every other successor to C, still has some work to do.