# What's New in Developer Tools for 2021?

Industry experts from some of your favorite developer tools came together at [Postman Galaxy 2021](https://www.postman.com/postman-galaxy/) to debate the challenges and trends in tools for the developer community. The [“What’s New in Developer Tools”](https://www.postman.com/postman-galaxy/the-best-new-developer-tools-of-2020/) panel participants included:

- [StackShare](https://stackshare.io/) Founder and CEO Yonas Beshawred (moderator)
- [SmartBear](https://smartbear.com/) Senior Director of Product Management Ali Inzana
- [Stoplight](https://stoplight.io/) Architect Phil Sturgeon
- [ReadMe](https://readme.com/) Founder Gregory Koberger
- [Postman](https://www.postman.com/) Lead Solutions Engineer Kevin Swiber
 
 The panel tackled broad industry questions including the following: - What new features at your company are you excited about?
- What new developer tools (besides your own) are you excited about?
- What trends do you see with API specifications?
- Is [GraphQL](https://blog.postman.com/what-is-a-graphql-api-how-does-it-work/) the future of APIs?
 
 After some lively discourse about [OpenAPI](https://blog.postman.com/postman-supports-openapi-3-0/), governance, and event-driven architectures, our industry experts concluded with these final thoughts: - “When it comes to dev tooling, insist on having nice things.” Hear more insights from [Ali Inzana](https://youtu.be/gtv8z3efU6o?t=2466), senior director of product management at SmartBear.
 
- “Really give [API-first design](https://www.postman.com/api-first/) a try, even if it’s just for one API.” Hear more insights from [Phil Sturgeon](https://youtu.be/gtv8z3efU6o?t=2497), architect at Stoplight.
 
- “The future is people who don’t care about APIs, but want to do something really cool.” Hear more insights from [Gregory Koberger](https://youtu.be/gtv8z3efU6o?t=2537), founder at ReadMe.
 
- “Keep challenging tool vendors in this space. The more feedback we get, the better the experience is going to be.” Hear more insights from [Kevin Swiber](https://youtu.be/gtv8z3efU6o?t=2574), lead solutions engineer at Postman.
 
 Watch the full Postman Galaxy developer tools panel discussion here: