The State of TICKscript Development discusses various tools available for writing TICKscripts, including editors and IDEs with plugins, to help developers aggregate, analyze, and alert on data in InfluxDB. The recommended development workflow emphasizes standardizing a process for moving scripts from local developer machines into production systems, using source control, deployment environments, and testing frameworks. A consistent repository structure is also crucial, with files encoded with searchable information and unit tests written to verify script functionality.