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Phaser

Phaser is a fast, free, and fun open source HTML5 game framework that offers WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. It has been actively developed for over 10 years. Phaser is built on and around web standards and puts the browser first. Web export isn't an afterthought or checkbox on a feature list; it's our home. Phaser is fully open source, and you have unrestricted access to every last line of code in the core library. Phaser has more ready-made templates than any other game framework and is a great CLI tool. Games made with Phaser have been used as the cornerstone for marketing campaigns for years. They've been deployed everywhere, including as prominent features on sites for major Hollywood film blockbusters, massive brand promotional campaigns, educational content, interactive experiences, TV shows, news reports, charity fund-raising broadcasts, live events marketing, and so many more.

Starting Price: $9 per month

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Defold

Defold is a free and open source game engine designed for high-performance cross-platform game development. It comes fully featured out of the box, requiring no setup or configuration, allowing developers to simply download the editor and start creating. The engine includes a visual editor, code editor, Lua scripting, Lua debugger, scene editor, particle editor, and tilemap editor, and supports both 2D and 3D game development. With a single codebase and no need for external tools, Defold enables publishing to major platforms such as PlayStation5, PlayStation4, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, Windows, Steam, HTML5, and Facebook. It offers a component-based system for building games, allowing the use of basic building blocks to create complex behavior, and supports writing game logic using Lua. Developers can add new functionality from the asset portal, set up their own local build environment, and write native code to extend the engine.

Starting Price: Free

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MonoGame

MonoGame is a free and open-source framework that allows developers to create cross-platform games using C# and other .NET languages. It supports multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. MonoGame provides a comprehensive set of features, such as 2D and 3D rendering, sound playback, input handling, and content management, enabling the development of high-quality games across various genres. The framework is a re-implementation of Microsoft's XNA 4 API, ensuring familiarity for developers with XNA experience. Notable games developed with MonoGame include "Streets of Rage 4," "Carrion," "Celeste," and "Stardew Valley." MonoGame is actively maintained by the MonoGame Foundation and its community, with ongoing updates and support.

Starting Price: Free

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Latta

Latta AI is an innovative platform designed to streamline the software development process by automating the detection and resolution of bugs. By recording user sessions and applying AI-driven fixes, Latta AI enables developers, project managers, and testers to focus more on feature development, thereby boosting productivity and accelerating release cycles. The platform integrates seamlessly with popular version control systems like GitHub and GitLab and maintains strict security protocols to ensure code privacy and protection. Additionally, Latta AI offers a plugin for JetBrains IDEs, allowing developers to access its bug-fixing tools directly within their development environment. This integration facilitates quick identification and resolution of issues without the need to leave the IDE. Overall, Latta AI aims to reduce the time developers spend on debugging by up to 40%, enhancing efficiency and allowing teams to focus on innovation.

Starting Price: $0.05 per fix

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JSON Crack

ToDiagram

JSON Crack is an open source tool that transforms complex data formats, including JSON, YAML, CSV, XML, and TOML, into interactive, visually intuitive graphs, enhancing data comprehension and analysis. Users can input data directly, upload files, or provide URLs, and it automatically generates a visual tree graph. It supports data conversion between formats, such as JSON to CSV or XML to JSON, and includes features like JSON formatting, validation, and code generation for TypeScript interfaces, Golang structs, and JSON Schemas. Advanced tools are available for decoding JWTs, executing JQ queries, and performing JSON Path commands. Users can export visualizations as PNG, JPEG, or SVG files. All data processing occurs locally on the user's device, ensuring data privacy.

Starting Price: Free

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Thunder Client

Thunder Client is a lightweight REST API client extension for Visual Studio Code, designed to simplify API testing with an intuitive and user-friendly interface. It supports features such as collections, environment variables, and scriptless testing, allowing developers to organize requests, manage different environments, and validate API responses without the need for scripting. All data is stored locally on the user's device, ensuring privacy and security. Additionally, Thunder Client offers Git synchronization for team collaboration, enabling the saving and sharing of request data within a Git repository. Its CLI supports CI/CD integration, facilitating automated testing and report generation. Trusted by over 5 million users worldwide, Thunder Client seamlessly integrates into the VS Code environment, providing a streamlined workflow for API development and testing.

Starting Price: $3 per month

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Entelligence

Entelligence AI is an AI-powered engineering intelligence platform designed to streamline development workflows, enhance collaboration, and boost productivity across the software development lifecycle. It automates code reviews and pull request (PR) analysis with intelligent agents, cutting review time, surfacing bugs early, and boosting engineering productivity. Entelligence's Deep Review feature detects complex issues across files with deep context analysis of the entire codebase, providing PR summaries, smart comments, and quick fixes. Entelligence AI also offers performance insights, tracking team performance, sprint progress, and code quality, monitoring output per engineer, review depth, and sprint assessments in real-time. Its self-updating documentation feature turns code into clear docs and refreshes them on every commit.

Starting Price: $29 per month

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Piny

Pinegrow

Piny is a visual editor designed for developers working with Astro, React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS, operating directly within IDEs like Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. It allows users to edit code visually, navigate components, and streamline styling without special setup. All edits are made directly in the code, ensuring developers maintain full control. Piny offers powerful free features for styling and navigating projects without requiring an account. Visual Tailwind Controls enable intuitive styling by clicking on elements, with changes immediately reflected in the code and automatic document saving to trigger hot reloads. The Tailwind Class Inspector helps manage complex styles in an editable tree of classes and states. Users can edit Tailwind classes directly within strings, variables, and even in non-React/Astro code.

Starting Price: $120 per year

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DebuggAI

DebuggAI is an AI-powered debugging platform designed to streamline the process of identifying and resolving code issues through intelligent automation. It offers features such as text-based test requests, secure local tunneling for testing on localhost servers, and visual test reports with GIF recordings to enhance the debugging experience. The platform supports various technologies, including Node.js, Next.js, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Django, and Vite, making it versatile for different development environments. DebuggAI aims to reduce the complexity of end-to-end testing by allowing developers to generate and run tests using simple English commands, thereby improving efficiency and confidence in the development workflow.

Starting Price: $20 per month

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BaseRock AI

BaseRock.ai is an AI-driven software quality platform that automates unit and integration testing, enabling developers to generate and execute tests directly within their preferred IDEs. It leverages advanced machine learning models to analyze codebases, producing comprehensive test cases that ensure optimal code coverage and quality. By integrating seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, BaseRock.ai facilitates early bug detection, reducing QA costs by up to 80% and boosting developer productivity by 40%. Its features include automated test generation, real-time feedback, and support for multiple programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, Python, and Go. BaseRock.ai offers flexible pricing plans, including a free tier, to accommodate various development needs. It is trusted by leading enterprises to enhance software quality and accelerate feature delivery.

Starting Price: $14.99 per month

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Void Editor

Void is an open source AI code editor and Cursor alternative built as a fork of VS Code, enabling developers to write code with advanced AI assistance while retaining full control over their data. It supports seamless integration with any large language model, such as DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Gemini, Claude, and Grok, connecting directly without routing through a private backend. Core features include tab‑triggered autocomplete, inline quick edit, and a versatile AI chat interface offering normal chat, a restricted gather mode for read/search-only tasks, and an agent mode that automates file and folder operations, terminal commands, and MCP tool access. Void delivers high‑performance operations, including fast apply on files with thousands of lines, alongside checkpoint management for model updates, native tool execution, and lint error detection. Developers can transfer all themes, keybindings, and settings from VS Code in one click and host models locally or via the cloud.

Starting Price: Free

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CodeScan

Code Quality and Security for Salesforce Developers. Made exclusively for the Salesforce platform, CodeScan’s code analysis solutions provide you with total visibility into your code health. The most comprehensive static code analysis solution supporting Salesforce languages and metadata. Self hosted. Check your code for security and quality with the most extensive database for the salesforce platform. Cloud. Get all the benefits of our self hosted service without the need of servers or internal infrastructure. Editor plugins. Plug in codescan to your favorite editor and get real-time feedback while you code. Define code standards. Maintain the quality of your code according to best practices. Control code quality. Enforce your coding standards and minimize code complexity throughout the development process. Reduce technical debt. Track your technical debt to improve your code quality and efficiency. Increase development productivity.

Starting Price: $250 per month

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CodeStream

New Relic

CodeStream is an open-source extension for VS Code, Visual Studio, and JetBrains. CodeStream supercharges development workflows by putting collaboration tools in your IDE. It supports pull requests from GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab, issue management from Jira, Trello, Asana and 9 others, and provides code discussion that ties it all together, integrated with Slack, MS Teams, email, and in-editor notifications. Understand, review, and write code faster with CodeStream. Get answers as easy as “select the code, type your question." Save institutional knowledge where it belongs: with your source code. Integrates with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Email and offers in-editor notifications. Comment on code is as simple as: select the code, type your question. Code authors are automatically at-mentioned based on git blame info. Conversation threads are tied to code locations across branches and as new code merges in.

Starting Price: $8.33 per user per month

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Azure Logic Apps

Microsoft

Built on a containerized runtime that increases scale and portability while automating business-critical workflows anywhere. Modernize your BizTalk Server applications by moving them to Logic Apps using the BizTalk migration tool. Connect logic apps to your virtual networks to seamlessly and securely integrate cloud-based and on-premises solutions. Containerize your workflows to deploy and run your applications anywhere—in the cloud, on premises, or the infrastructure of your choice. Apply CI/CD best practices to your workflows and take advantage of built-in tools for seamless and secure deployments. Deploy and run logic applications in Azure, any container, and on premises. Enable private endpoints, simplified virtual network access, and deployment slots. Develop, debug, and test on Windows, MacOS, and Linux using Visual Studio Code. Deploy multiple workflows to a single logic app, simplifying automated deployments and CI/CD pipelines.

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Klocwork

Perforce

Klocwork static code analysis and SAST tool for C, C++, C#, Java, and JavaScript identifies software security, quality, and reliability issues helping to enforce compliance with standards. Built for enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps, Klocwork scales to projects of any size, integrates with large complex environments, a wide range of developer tools, and provides control, collaboration, and reporting for the entire enterprise. This has made Klocwork the preferred static analyzer that keeps development velocity high while enforcing continuous compliance for security and quality. Use Klocwork static application security testing (SAST) for DevOps (DevSecOps). Our security standards identify security vulnerabilities, helping to find and fix security issues early and proving compliance to internationally recognized security standards. Klocwork integrates with CI/CD tools, containers, cloud services, and machine provisioning making automated security testing easy.

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VSCodium

Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled. Note for Mac OS X Mojave users, if you see “App can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software” when opening VSCodium the first time, you can right-click the application and choose Open. This should only be required the first time opening on Mojave. The most up-to-date information on migrating from Visual Studio Code and other quirks you might encounter are documented.

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Codespaces

GitHub

Use the full power of Visual Studio Code, including the editor, terminal, debugger, version control, settings sync, and the entire ecosystem of extensions. Work in the browser or hand off to your desktop. Spin up new dev environment for any sized project in seconds with prebuilt images. GitHub’s own 35GB dev image starts in under 10 seconds. Scale your cloud VMs up to 32 cores and 64GB of RAM. And with low-latency connections across four regions, you won’t even remember it’s not your local machine. Preview your changes in the browser with instant reloads (websocket and HMR support) and share private and public ports with your teammates. Every nerdy detail only you care about, configured just right, backed by your own dotfiles repository.

Starting Price: $4 per user per month

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Visual COBOL

OpenText

Visual COBOL provides COBOL development and integration tools, in your choice of Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code or Eclipse, that offer programmers an unrivaled development experience. Use Visual COBOL to help your software delivery teams transform core business systems written in COBOL using the latest technologies including .NET, JVM, Containers and Cloud. Introducing the next chapter of COBOL Innovation, Visual COBOL 7.0. This latest release delivers new and exciting development capabilities designed for Micro Focus COBOL applications. Take full advantage of the new, open and popular toolset, Visual Studio Code for COBOL development. Visual COBOL 7.0 also delivers a continued Micro Focus commitment to COBOL deployment across a wide array of platforms including new Linux distributions, .NET core, Docker containers, Azure Cloud and AWS. Compile COBOL applications to Java byte code for deployment within the Java Virtual Machine.

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SonarQube for IDE

SonarSource

Easy to use, no configuration needed — just install from your favorite IDE marketplace and continue to code while SonarQube for IDE (formerly SonarLint) does its job. Your current linting tools may come with overhead – specialized tools for languages or longer setup and config time. With SonarQube for IDE, you can settle on a single solution to address your Code Quality and Code Security issues. We have you covered with hundreds of unique, language-specific rules to catch Bugs, Code Smells, and Security Vulnerabilities right in the IDE, as you code. From dangerous regex patterns to non-compliant coding standards, SonarQube for IDE is your true confidante in delivering error-free code. With an intelligent tool by your side, your mistakes are only visible to you so you can understand them, quickly remediate them, and learn along the way.

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CodeRush

DevExpress

Try your first CodeRush feature right now and see instantly just how powerful it is. Refactoring for C#, Visual Basic, and XAML, with the fastest test .NET runner available, next generation debugging, and the most efficient coding experience on the planet. Quickly find symbols and files in your solution and easily navigate to code constructions related to the current context. CodeRush includes the Quick Navigation and Quick File Navigation features, which make it fast and easy to find symbols and open files. Using the Analyze Code Coverage feature, you can discover what parts of your solution are covered by unit tests, and find the at-risk parts of your application. The Code Coverage window shows percentage of statements covered by unit tests for each namespace, type, and member in your solution.

Starting Price: $49.99 one time payment

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JFrog

Fully automated DevOps platform for distributing trusted software releases from code to production. Onboard DevOps projects with users, resources and permissions for faster deployment frequency. Fearlessly update with proactive identification of open source vulnerabilities and license compliance violations. Achieve zero downtime across your DevOps pipeline with High Availability and active/active clustering for your enterprise. Control your DevOps environment with out-of-the-box native and ecosystem integrations. Enterprise ready with choice of on-prem, cloud, multi-cloud or hybrid deployments that scale as you grow. Ensure speed, reliability and security of IoT software updates and device management at scale. Create new DevOps projects in minutes and easily onboard team members, resources and storage quotas to get coding faster.

Starting Price: $98 per month

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JavaScript

JavaScript is a scripting language and programming language for the web that enables developers to build dynamic elements on the web. Over 97% of the websites in the world use client-side JavaScript. JavaScript is one of the most important scripting languages on the web. Strings in JavaScript are contained within a pair of either single quotation marks '' or double quotation marks "". Both quotes represent Strings but be sure to choose one and STICK WITH IT. If you start with a single quote, you need to end with a single quote. There are pros and cons to using both IE single quotes tend to make it easier to write HTML within Javascript as you don’t have to escape the line with a double quote. Let’s say you’re trying to use quotation marks inside a string. You’ll need to use opposite quotation marks inside and outside of JavaScript single or double quotes.

Starting Price: Free

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JSON

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language. JSON is built on two structures: 1. A collection of name/value pairs. In various languages, this is realized as an object, record, struct, dictionary, hash table, keyed list, or associative array. 2. An ordered list of values. In most languages, this is realized as an array, vector, list, or sequence. These are universal data structures. Virtually all modern programming languages support them in one form or another.

Starting Price: Free

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Dash

Kapeli

Dash gives your Mac instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets. Dash is an API documentation browser and code snippet manager. Dash instantly searches offline documentation sets for 200+ APIs, 100+ cheat sheets, and more. You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included. Dash comes with 200+ offline documentation sets. You can choose which documentation sets to download and Dash will take care of the rest, making sure they are kept up to date. You can also generate your own docsets, request docsets or download docsets from third-party sources. All documentation sets have been generated and are maintained with the utmost care. Dash integrates with package managers to generate documentation sets for anything you might need, as well as provide custom documentation sources of their own. Store snippets of code. Easily reuse snippets. Expand snippets in any app. Organize snippets with tags, syntax highlighting, and variable placeholders.

Starting Price: Free

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Cacher

Cacher empowers you and your team to write more code, faster. Code snippets help you retrieve and share the technical details behind any implementation. Use Cacher’s flexible color-coded labeling system to organize your code any way you like. Label snippets by project, by department or by priority. Install our plugins for popular editors and IDEs to create and insert snippets without leaving your coding environment. Cacher’s team features empower you to build a shared knowledge base for your company. Team snippets or labels are automatically synced with every member's library, no matter their platform or code editor. Every snippet has a page on Snippets, our code-sharing community for Cacher users. Send snippet URLs through email, Slack, or Twitter or embed them on your blog. Use code snippets to document common code patterns, algorithms and machine setup instructions. Educators use team snippets to share knowledge with their students. They're great supplements to lesson plans.

Starting Price: $6 per month

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Grit

Put code migrations and dependency upgrades on autopilot. Grit has generated tens of thousands of successful changes for beta customers. Grit uses machine learning and static analysis to auto-generate pull requests for cleaning up technical debt. Without Grit, developers spend 33% of their work time on maintenance. Use Grit’s declarative syntax to define your own idioms. Grit detects dozens of common sources of technical debt and lets you fix them with an automated pull request in a single click. Write powerful AST-aware queries to find and fix antipatterns in your codebase. Grit runs on every pull request to hold the line on migrations and prevent sliding backward.

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Amazon CodeCatalyst

Amazon

Quickly build and deliver apps at scale on AWS. Amazon CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service for development teams to quickly build, deliver and scale applications on AWS while adhearing to organization-specific best practices. Developers can automate development tasks and innovate faster with generative AI capabilities, and spend less time setting up project tools, managing CI/CD pipeliness, provisioning and configuring various developement environments or coordinating with team members. IT Leaders can codify organizational best practices at scale via application blueprints to ensure compliance across teams with scale.

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UnitWise

API Swan

Our platform intelligently understands your code, seamlessly executing edge cases within your coding environment, ensuring the prompt delivery of impeccable software. Experience accelerated delivery of flawless software with UnitWise at your fingertips. Say goodbye to the tedious process of manually creating test cases and the reliance on prompts for generating test codes. As you delve into coding, UnitWise becomes your steadfast testing companion, providing real-time and pertinent test codes to streamline your development journey. Select the class to test and generate test cases within your IDE in a single click. View the failed test case behaviors and fix the test to eliminate errors. Identify code bugs, enhancing software reliability, while seamlessly correcting identified code issues. We prioritize data security, ensuring the steadfast integrity and exclusivity of your code are meticulously upheld.

Starting Price: $65 per month

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CodeQL

GitHub

Discover vulnerabilities across a codebase with CodeQL, our industry-leading semantic code analysis engine. CodeQL lets you query code as though it were data. Write a query to find all variants of a vulnerability, eradicating it forever. Then share your query to help others do the same. CodeQL is free for research and open source. Run real queries on popular open source codebases using CodeQL for Visual Studio Code. See how powerful it is to discover a bad pattern and then find similar occurrences across the entire codebase. You can create CodeQL databases yourself for any project that's under an OSI-approved open source license. GitHub CodeQL can only be used on codebases that are released under an OSI-approved open source license, to perform academic research, or to generate CodeQL databases for or during automated analysis. Download and add the project’s CodeQL database to VS Code, or create a CodeQL database using the CodeQL CLI.

Starting Price: Free

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DevAssure

DevAssure's test automation platform helps organizations to automate their software testing. Users can perform web testing, API testing, visual testing etc. with DevAssure test automation platform.

Starting Price: $0

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Best Application Development Software for Visual Studio Code - Page 4

Compare the Top Application Development Software that integrates with Visual Studio Code as of August 2025 - Page 4

Phaser

Defold

MonoGame

Latta

JSON Crack

Thunder Client

Entelligence

Piny

DebuggAI

BaseRock AI

Void Editor

CodeScan

CodeStream

Azure Logic Apps

Klocwork

VSCodium

Codespaces

Visual COBOL

SonarQube for IDE

CodeRush

JFrog

JavaScript

JSON

Dash

Cacher

Grit

Amazon CodeCatalyst

UnitWise

CodeQL

DevAssure

Best Application Development Software for Visual Studio Code - Page 4

Compare the Top Application Development Software that integrates with Visual Studio Code as of August 2025 - Page 4

Phaser

Defold

MonoGame

Latta

JSON Crack

Thunder Client

Entelligence

Piny

DebuggAI

BaseRock AI

Void Editor

CodeScan

CodeStream

Azure Logic Apps

Klocwork

VSCodium

Codespaces

Visual COBOL

SonarQube for IDE

CodeRush

JFrog

JavaScript

JSON

Dash

Cacher

Grit

Amazon CodeCatalyst

UnitWise

CodeQL

DevAssure

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