What Chris Wellons thinks about developer tools
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Chris Wellons has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingArchaic line-ending conversion features in tools have caused far more harm than good over the years.
Their wordsOver the years, archaic line-ending features have caused far more harm than good
↗tugz: a new deflate library with three applicationsnullprogram.com
- 3 weeks earlier
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Our readingCMake tooling is missing a linter that could statically catch most CMakeLists.txt mistakes.
Their wordsThe world needs a good CMake linter, which could catch most cases statically.
↗What's been going on in w64devkit the past yearnullprogram.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Our readingAI tools are now highly effective at generating UI code from a rough natural-language description
Their wordsThis is just one of many situations I've used AI the past month for UI development, and it's been shockingly effective.
↗dcmake: a new CMake debugger UInullprogram.com 1st of 2 in this piece