Tools for Open Source

Introduction 

Open Source is a source code accessible to a community for modification and distribution depending on user requirements. It uses the idea of decentralized production by several users to find new solutions to existing problems. It also led to the creation of a phenomenal application as a collaborative community contributes to increasing efficiency performance and introducing new features in the application. In today’s world, we are more inclined to use open-source tools as they come with various advantages that help in providing accuracy and developing new technologies.

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Benefits of Open Source Tools

1. They have comparable or advanced features to the expensive commercial tools.
2. They are freely available and allow developers to test the tooling at no cost.
3. They can be modified or integrated with larger projects as desired.
4. Open-source projects are maintained by a community of developers that helps in keeping the quality in check, maintaining bugs, and providing support even when the original provider leaves the project.

This blog will briefly discuss some of the most widely used open-source tools.

Open Source Tools

Following are some of the most widely used open-source tools:

1. Git
   Git is a distributed code management and version control system often used with web-based code management platforms like GitHub and GitLab. Its branching model allows users to create multiple independent local branches that can easily be created, merged, or deleted. Git is commonly used by companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, etc.
    
2. Apache Subversion
   Apache Subversion is also known as SVN, which is another open-source for code management. Both Git and subversion are similar and differ only in their code repositories: Git uses a local repository by default, whereas subversion stores code on a remote server. They can also be used together by connecting them through a git-svn, allowing users to interact with subversion repositories through the Git tooling. 
   
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3. Eclipse IDE
   Eclipse is an open-source IDE that features a wide ecosystem of plugins and extensions. It's written primarily in Java but also supports several programming languages. Eclipse features a continually growing plugin marketplace. However, some of these plugins depend on others, making it tricky to add and remove them without breaking the existing functionality.
    
4. Notepad++
   Notepad++ is a free, open-source code editor that supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment. It is written in C++ and uses Win32 API, and STL ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. It is trying to reduce the world's carbon dioxide emissions by optimizing several routines. 
    
5. Visual Studio
   Visual Studio is an IDE from Microsoft used to develop programs, websites, web services, and mobile apps. It supports several programming languages. Visual Studio also accepts plugins that expand its functionality to another level. 
    
6. Android Studio
   Android Studio is an Android development environment. It provides integrated developer tools for the development and debugging similar to Eclipse with the ADT plugin. Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every possible type of Android device.
    
7. Linux
   Linux is the best known and most widely used open-source operating system. The exceptional features such as strong security, good quality, user-friendly packages, etc., contribute to its popularity among developers.
    
8. MySQL
   MySQL is one of the most popular open-source databases. It allows users to interact with its database using SQL directly. MySQL is often used with other programs to implement applications that need database capabilities.
    
9. Atom
   Atom is a customizable text editor built by GitHub that easily integrates with other developing tools. It offers features that cater to modern needs, including cross-platform editing, built-in support for collaborative coding, smart auto-completion, and a file system browser. It can also customize the work environment with open-source packages, themes, and source code alteration. However, some drawbacks led to the degradation of its performance like slow speed, taking a while to start, and consuming more memory than expected. 
    
10. Bootstrap
    Bootstrap is an open-source framework to develop customizable, user-friendly, responsive mobile-first-sites. One of the most popular frontend open-source toolkits features sass variables and mixin, grid system, and javascript plugins. Bootstrap is designed to simplify the development of web pages; its primary purpose includes affecting the color, size, font, and layout of web projects.
     
11. Ruby on Rails
    Rails is an open-source web framework that provides structures for web services, databases, and web pages structures. It facilitates JSON, XML for data transfer, and HTML, CSS, JavaScript for user interfaces. Features such as view scaffolding, migrations, and seamless table creation, set it apart from other web development technology. It is widely used by companies like GitHub,  Airbnb, and Hulu.

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