Ask HN: What is the killer app/library of your favorite language?

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4 years ago

I liked the idea of [1] that many languages just get popular because they have killer apps. The prime examples are - Wordpress and PHP - Rails and Ruby

What are the killer apps of your favorite language? You can go for any language if you want to as well.

For me, Haskell has 3 great apps/libraries:

- PostgREST: An awesome way to create a REST-API from PostgreSQL tables

- Shellcheck: A static analysis tool for Shell scripts

- Pandoc: A parser/converter for various formats

How about you?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4

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