---
title: "In Praise of Low Tech DevEx"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/in-praise-of-low-tech-devex-vzjsbee9y
source_url: https://blog.container-solutions.com/in-praise-of-low-tech-devex
type: article
source: "Container Solutions"
published: 2024-05-21T09:26:07.742Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:36:22.539Z
tags: ["devtools", "vim"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# In Praise of Low Tech DevEx

**[Container Solutions](https://daily.dev/sources/containersolution)** · 7 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The post discusses the concept of low-tech devex and its benefits. It emphasizes the use of long-standing, battle-hardened tools with stable histories, small dependencies, and text-based input and output. The post also highlights the portability, speed, power, composability, and user-friendliness of low-tech devex tools.

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daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://blog.container-solutions.com/in-praise-of-low-tech-devex>

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Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#vim](https://daily.dev/tags/vim)

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