- GNU Bourne Again SHell (bash) for tests.
- [AsciiDoc](https://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/) to build the HTML
documentation.
+ - Tip: On Debian-based systems (e.g. Ubuntu), install the `docbook-xml` and
+ `docbook-xsl` packages in addition to `asciidoc`. Without the former the
+ man page generation will be very slow.
- [xsltproc](http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/xsltproc2.html) to build the man page.
- [Python](https://www.python.org) to debug and run the performance test suite.