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5 Top Free and Open Source OCaml Web Frameworks

February 17, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

Here’s our verdict on the best OCaml web frameworks. We only recommend free and open source software here.

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critique – review git diffs

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

critique is a terminal UI for reviewing git diffs with syntax highlighting, split view, and word-level diff.

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3 Easy Ways to Access R from a Python Program

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

This roundup picks the finest software which lets you access R from within a Python program.

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2 Easy Ways to Access Python from R

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup, Scientific

This roundup picks the finest software which lets you access Python from R.

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Codon – extensible Python compiler

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Codon is a high-performance Python implementation that compiles to native machine code without any runtime overhead.

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9 Best Free and Open Source Java Object-Relational Mapping Software

February 15, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

Here’s our picks of the finest object–relational mapping (ORM) software.

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Coding

Bloop – build server for the Scala programming language

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Bloop aspires to provide the best out-of-the-box experience to Scala developers and a solid platform for build tool authors

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envx – environment variable manager

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

envx is an environment variable manager for developers, featuring an intuitive TUI and CLI.

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Sidecar – development workflow in one shell

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Sidecar puts your entire development workflow in one shell: plan tasks with td, chat with AI agents, review diffs, stage commits, and more.

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tfjournal – record Terraform

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

tfjournal is a TUI tool to record Terraform runs with git context, timing, and resource events.

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Pyright – static type checker

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Pyright is a full-featured, standards-compliant static type checker for Python.

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Phpactor – heavy-lifting refactoring and introspection tools

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

Phpactor is a PHP completion, refactoring, introspection tool and language server.

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Development Tools

8 Top Free and Open Source Clojure Web Frameworks

February 12, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

We recommend the best free and open source Clojure web frameworks.

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Process Automation

6 Best Free and Open Source Robotic Process Automation Tools

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms Office, Productivity, Programming, Roundup

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a business process automation technology that uses attended or unattended software bots.

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Front-end Frameworks

7 Best Free and Open Source JavaScript Engines

February 11, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

A JavaScript engine is software that translates source code into machine code. This machine code is executed on a computer’s central processing unit.

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ziglint – code analysis tool

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ziglint is a configurable code analysis tool for Zig codebases.

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Development Tools

7 Top Free and Open Source Groovy Web Frameworks

February 9, 2026 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

We explore the best free and open source web frameworks for Groovy.

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Framework

3 Useful Free and Open Source Haskell TUI Frameworks

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, Roundup

The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Haskell.

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Git Clients

Branchlet – create and manage Git worktrees

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Branchlet is a interactive CLI tool for creating and managing Git worktrees with an easy to use interface.

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Coding

CuteKit – build system and package manager

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

CuteKit is a suite of tools and utilities for compiling, cross-compiling, linking, and packaging project written in low-level languages.

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