Byron

I use Hyper because you have to make HTTP calls somehow ;). It's also one of the cornerstones of the Web in Rust, and seemed like a good choice. Today, hyper is still a moving target, and it is getting hard to keep up. One of my hopes is that async/await and hyper will reach 1.0 this year, so one can upgrade to that in one big push.

I use Rust because it makes it ridiculously easy to write highest quality software.

I use Python because for one, I knew it well, and secondly, it was needed to run Mako, the template engine generating all code. Today, I wouldn't use python for anything anymore, its unicode/string handling being just one of the reasons.

I use cURL because it's one of the most portable ways to download resources via HTTP(s)

I use Make because it's so easy to model dependencies between various files and automatically regenerate outputs as inputs change.