Also on Windows, mostly. - Git, for being so versatile, after one learns its basic internal model. - Tortoise Git, for making my day to day job of dealing wit

Also on Windows, mostly. - Git, for being so versatile, after one learns its basic internal model. - Tortoise Git, for making my day to day job of dealing with branches and merges easier. - 7zip - my workhorse for compression for many years. - Visual Studio 2022. Specifically: its debugger, the refactoring support, and its recent intellicode feature, which for me gives better suggestions than Github's Copilot. And its fast C# compiler - The C# language, for constraining me just so while still allowing me to be expressive and productive. And for having a stable ABI, stellar backwards compatibility, and excellent documentation. - The C++ language, for allowing me to be expressive as much as I want, while giving the tools to be correct (which do require some self discipline), and allowing me to write very performant code. - Notepad++ for being simple and fast. - Godbolt, aka Compiler Explorer. For allowing me to quickly evaluate stuff and see the actual asm. Each of these also has its bad sides, but I won't go into that, keeping it positive just before the new year :)