Small, Sharp Software Tools

Wrapping Up

In this chapter, you explored a handful of additional tools you can incorporate into your workflow, but there are so many more tools out there, each solving a specific purpose. From here, explore using tmux to manage your terminal sessions in tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development [Hog16], or look into editing text with Vim and NeoVim in Modern Vim [Nei18]. Explore the command-line tools for your cloud infrastructure provider, or take advantage of front-end development tools.

And who knows, you might even consider building your own command-line tools. The Go programming language makes it easy to create command-line tools that work on all platforms, and Python or JavaScript are popular options as well. And of course, you could just ...