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The most stacked developer tools
Developers publish the tools they actually run, filed by the role each one plays. This ranks those stacks by how many distinct people run a tool — one developer, one vote, however many roles they file it under.
9 / 10 developers with a stack
The ranking publishes at 10 developers
Stacks are being recorded now — they are just not ranked in public yet. Every developer who publishes one moves this page closer to a number worth citing.
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- Counted by distinct developer. Someone who files the same tool under two roles — an IDE and an AI assistant — is one adopter, not two, so a tool gains nothing by spanning categories.
- Only tools on active catalog records are counted. A stack entry pointing at a discontinued tool is dropped before the ranking is built, so this measures what people run today rather than what they once added.
- A tool needs 2 distinct developers before it earns a row. Below that a single person's setup would be presented as an adoption figure.
- The whole ranking stays unpublished below 10 participating developers, because a handful of people's preferences is not a trend and converting it into percentages would not make it one.
- Role is whichever role the tool is most often filed under across all stacks; tools recorded without a role show none.
Recomputed August 31, 2026 · scoring rubric & evidence rules · open dataset (CC-BY 4.0)
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