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Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015?

Posted by Soulskill on from the that-time-of-year dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Several major tech and open source sites—including Opensource.com and Infoworld—have published lists of the top open source projects of the year. What's your pick for the biggest, best, or most important open source project of 2015? Are there any projects that made big leaps this year that aren't getting the recognition they deserve?

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  1. Late to the game: Swift by Henriok · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Swift! Apple just released their new programming language as OpenSource and it is the future for all development for Apple's platforms. The scope for Swift is enormous: use it for everything from operating systems to scripting. Swift builds upon their already open development technologies: llvm, clang and lldb and Swift will fit in nicely here.

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    - Henrik

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  2. Re:.net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seconded. The sheer scope of causing hell to freeze that hard that many times in a single year is nothing short of amazing. First it was .Net Framework, then the CLR, then the compilers, then a small portion of Visual Studio (!), then the entirety of ASP.Net and .Net Core... The devil himself slipped on the ice* and broke his hip a few months back.

    *Not really ice, but frozen essence of tortured souls that solidified due to the lowered temperature.

  3. Virtualbox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Virtualbox is maybe not the most original, or groundbreaking project, but it is pretty damn great, and it is a HUGE enabler.
    I literally couldn't do my job without it.