Libraries I Like

As a developer, I’m always on the lookout for good software libraries to make my life easier. Here are some I like.

C#

• NDesk.Options - Quick and easy command line options parser.
• Command Line Parser - More sophisticated and powerful, but somewhat harder to use, command line options parser.
• JSON.NET - All things JSON.

Python

• argparse – Alright, this one is built-in, but it’s easily my favorite CLI options library out there.
• Jinja – templating. A must-have if you’re doing web serving with python or doing configuration management.
• Requests – Easy-to-use HTTP.
• SciPy - Python library for very powerful mathematical and scientific analysis. If you’re doing statistical analysis, look no further.
• SQLAlchemy – SQL library for python, similar to ActiveRecord for ruby in terms of functionality and purpose.
• SymPy – Symbolic mathematics, including prime number calculation.
• tqdm - Make command-line status bars easily from Python or from the command line.

Ruby

• Devise - Secure ruby web authentication.
• iMessage-ruby - Send iMessage messages from a ruby script or from the command line.

Swift

• AlamoFire - Easy, elegant networking.
• SwiftyBeaver - Thorough, easy-to-use Swift logging framework.