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by Gikoskos 3440 days ago
Is "toolbelt" an actual term for a piece of software? Every single week I see another github project with a completely new term, similar to this one. If it's real what does it mean?
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I actually really like it.

There's a lot of bikeshedding over terms in this field (especially in web development!), so calling something a framework vs a library vs a tool vs a package vs whatever else will eventually cause comment threads about it to be bogged down in debates on how it's not a "real framework" or that it's too big to be a tool, etc...

Calling it a "toolbelt" is a perfect word to me, and I really like it. To me it reads like a collection of "things" which can all be used together for some purpose.

Open source software today is all about being fashionable: picking a fresh term helps you stand out in the crowd.