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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. Framework by ickleberry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably some JS-based web framework thing that runs on Docker in your Cloud based heap of VMs that does a mashup of any number of 3rd-party Cloud-based RESTful API's that are filled to the brim with cloud and startup goodness and covered in sticky goodness that attracts vulture capitalists like flies on fresh sh1t

  2. Yes by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Systemd is a project that needs more attention. We never get to hear about it.

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  3. 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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  4. Should be easy enough... by Junta · · Score: 4, Funny

    git pull and then du -sh.

    The biggest project should be pretty objectively obvious.

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  5. Re:Apple Swift 2.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This a million times. Swift is set to become the standard language for pretty much all future software development moving forward. It already dwarfs the lower quality niche alternatives like Go and Rust in terms of users and deployed applications. It already has millions of active developers, and has a proper permissive license so the freetards don't get to tell us what we can and cannot do with our own computers. Plus it is backed by the only company in technology that is doing anything interesting any more. It's basically the premier open source project right now, easily dwarfing stagnant stuff like the linux kernel and apache spark in terms of developer interest and innovation, and the fact that these idiots didn't pick it just goes to show how utterly inept the mainstream tech media really is.