InfoWorld's top picks among platforms, frameworks, databases, and all the other tools that programmers use The best open source development toolsThere must be a better way, right? The developers are the ones who find it. This year’s winning projects in the application development category include client-side frameworks, server-side frameworks, mobile frameworks, databases, languages, libraries, editors, and yeah, Docker. These are our top picks among all of the tools that make it faster and easier to build better applications. Open SourceSoftware DevelopmentDevelopment Tools