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ActiveState Replaces The Readme With New CLI Tool
Monday, September 16, 2019Company Profile | Follow Company
State Tool returns valuable coding time to developers
Vancouver, BC, September 16, 2019--(T-Net)--ActiveState anncouced it has introduced the ActiveState Platform Command Line Interface (CLI), the State Tool, which aims to automate the kinds of manual tasks that frustrate developers, such as the setup of development and test systems.
With the State Tool, this kind of setup — i.e., all the instructions in the Readme — can be reduced to a single command.
ActiveState has built the State Tool to address many of the tasks that plague developers at project setup or worse, when they have to dive back into an older project. These include environment setups that don't work the first time; dependencies, system libraries and build tools that aren't pinned, limiting build reproducibility; and an abundance of poorly documented and maintained ad hoc scripts, which affect productivity.
All these tasks are considered "part of the job", are chronically underestimated, and steal valuable coding time from developers. And with the trend toward microservices, more projects are getting started more often, which translates into more projects needing to be maintained.
The State Tool offers developers an all-in-one tool that can be used to automate all of the ad hoc tasks that arise on a day to day basis. In conjunction with the ActiveState Platform, which can automatically build and update Python and Perl runtime environments for Windows and Linux in minutes, the State Tool lets developers:
ActiveState has more than 20 years of experience in providing open source language distributions and developer tools for enterprises. This expertise has shaped the ActiveState Platform, designed to automate the project tasks that have historically held developers back. Try it out today.
Jeff Rouse, vice president, product management, said: "Developers are a hardy bunch. They suffer through a thousand annoyances at project startup/restart time, but soldier on anyway. It's just the way things have always been done. With the State Tool, it doesn't have to stay that way. The State Tool addresses all the hidden costs in a project that sap developer productivity. This includes everything from automating environment setup to secrets sharing to even automating the day-to-day scripts that everyone counts on to get their jobs done. Developers can finally stop solving the same annoying problems over and over again, and just rely on the State Tool so they can spend more time coding."
About ActiveState
For more than 20 years, ActiveState has been building Perl, Python and Tcl runtime environments used by more than 2 million developers at 97% of the Fortune 1000. Now, ActiveState is reinventing build engineering with an on-demand service that lets any developer automatically build, certify and resolve runtime environments using any open source language on any operating system in just a few minutes.
The ActiveState Platform's Open Source Language Automation means organizations no longer need to deal with runtimes. Instead, developers can focus on their code, accelerating time to market, while minimizing development complexity and reducing security risk and legal exposure. https://www.activestate.com
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