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Ask HN: What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects?

34 points by roder 17y ago

Just looking for projects - feel free to give a reason why.

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
XBMC
abscondment 17y ago
Clojure, Redis
- antirez 17y ago
  and you can play with both at the same time with redis-clojure: http://github.com/ragnard/redis-clojure http://github.com/ragnard/redis-clojure that is, Clojure library for Redis.
nathanwdavis 17y ago
MongoDB
- milestinsley 17y ago
  +1 for MongoDB. I love in particular the lack of structured schema meaning you can arbitrarily modify records without migrating the DB. Also there's a growing, awesome community.
nathanwdavis 17y ago
COBOL :)
- there 17y ago
  http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
roder 17y ago
Riak
qw 17y ago
Jakarta. It may not be hot and trendy, but it's certainly popular Edit: To the persons who downvoted me. I was not being sarcastic. I use stuff from the Jakarta project on a daily basis.
- jodrellblank 17y ago
  I didn't downvote you for sarcasm, I had the plan to downvote everyone who posted {project} regardless of whether I like or dislike the project, and equally upvote everyone who posted {project because .. reasons or thoughts or justifications or content which took some time to write ..} But hardly anyone seems to have bothered, and I feel mean now so I've stopped. :/
olalonde 17y ago
jQuery
clofresh 17y ago
couchdb
olalonde 17y ago
Ruby on Rails
b-man 17y ago
plt scheme
- Ixiaus 17y ago
  I like PLT a lot - DrScheme is a great environment; the stepper is such a crucial tool, especially since I'm still in the learning stage.
huwshimi 17y ago
Django
adam-_- 17y ago
Redis, node.js & sinatra
- adam-_- 17y ago
  Also I'm a fan of Catalyst but it's not necessarily hot and trendy...
bradfordw 17y ago
Languages: Clojure, plt scheme and (I guess a little) newLISP. "noSQL": Riak, MongoDB, Redis, (I think the "new-ness" has worn off CouchDB") Trendy: node.js, ruby on rails, django, lift *Really any "web framework that promises to make development easier"
rictic 17y ago
node.js (both the core and projects which build upon it)
- clemesha 17y ago
  "I'd like to see Twisted take advantage of the hype around Node.js -- They're the same! Except Twisted is mature and does more. And is Python" -http://twitter.com/progrium/status/7900106071 http://twitter.com/progrium/status/7900106071
  - siong1987 17y ago
    Try check out Cramp. http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/7/introducing-cramp http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/7/introducing-cramp. It's built on top of EventMachine - Ruby equivalent of Twisted.
  - jazzychad 17y ago
    sigh.. I know python is cool and all (and I know Jeff (progrium) somewhat), but being able to do development in the front-end and backend with the same language (javascript) makes things so much easier sometimes. I am by no means a python expert (I'm still learning), but the two languages just feel different, and I really really enjoy the prototypical/functional nature of javascript. Maybe python has this as well, and I'm just missing it? Anyway, node.js deserves all the hype it is getting.
  - simonw 17y ago
    There's one key difference between Node.js and Twisted / EventMachine / other non-blocking IO frameworks for existing languages: Node.js doesn't have any blocking function calls. You have to try really, really hard to block your event loop in Node.js. Every single library released for Node.js works asynchronously, and is hence safe to use. Not having to even worry about whether or not a library I want to use is blocking is a really useful feature.
jodrellblank 17y ago
Hot as in cool: Etherpad. Almost one of a kind, taken over and closed down then open sourced after a large backlash. I think a good additional web concept to join wikis and forums and sidebar-chats. Are you looking for something to use or something to contribute to or what? If you really care about popular and trendy, get some real data e.g. from http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/ http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/ and be surprised that the most popular of the past week are a package of Microsoft Fonts and an ERP, Accounting and CRM app. The most popular of all time are eMule and Azaureus file sharing and Sourceforge.net itself and the Crystal Space 3D SDK. In fact the most webby looking one in the lists seems to be PHPMyAdmin, of all things.
- fizx 17y ago
  It's possible that all of the more trendy apps have moved to Github by now.
  - pjhyett 17y ago
    This page hasn't officially launched yet, but we're working on exposing trending repos: http://github.com/explore http://github.com/explore edit: naturally, 5 minutes after I wrote this we decided to go live with it http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=1069047 http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=1069047
- dan_the_welder 17y ago
  Which "ERP, Accounting and CRM app" ? List seems to change fast.
  - jodrellblank 17y ago
    "Most Active (Overall) (Last 7 Days)", top of the list is: "PostBooks ERP, accounting, CRM by xTuple - CRM, ERP, Accounting" It shouldn't change fast if it is based on 7 days of traffic, but who knows what SForge does internally.
jacquesm 17y ago
clojure squeak
ambulatorybird 17y ago
LÖVE (http://love2d.org/ http://love2d.org/) -- a 2d game library for Lua. It's simple, easy to use, cross-platform, and allows for convenient distribution of finished products. (It's not really popular or trendy, but I think it's cool and I like it a lot.)
- cmars232 17y ago
  Thanks for new shiny thing! This does look cool.. what a great excuse for learning Lua!
ashleyw 17y ago
Ruby on Rails, node.js, MongoDB, jQuery, Webkit, Sinatra, HAML+SASS
mbrubeck 17y ago
WebKit/Chrome/V8 are leading the way in web standards implementation, with Firefox/Gecko/TraceMonkey also doing lots of great stuff. Haskell is really taking off, both in terms of compiler improvements and in the size of the community and available libraries. I'm using it for several projects now. MagLev, LuaJIT, Unladen Swallow, and V8 (again) are all exciting because they're bringing modern dynamic language VMs closer to Java-like (and sometimes even C-like) speeds. Android - my phone runs an open source OS, I can install software on it without an app store, and it can run SSH, Python, and Lua. Sweet!
jaggs 17y ago
hobo
simonw 17y ago
Redis - I wrote about why in October ( http://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/22/redis/ http://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/22/redis/ ) and it's gained some awesome new features since then, including ordered sets and blocking fetch against queues. It's a very different beast from the other stuff that gets branded as NoSQL.
mattdennewitz 17y ago
mongodb, mongoengine, redis, node, tornado, neo4j, django want to play with openframeworks and cvtypes, but haven't had time
Rabidgremlin 17y ago
Boxee http://www.boxee.tv/ http://www.boxee.tv/
christefano 17y ago
I don't know about hot and trendy, but these are a few open source projects that come to mind that make my life and work much, much easier: Drupal jQuery (included in Drupal) Xdebug EtherPad Adium Miro Quicksilver Clyppan
rmanocha 17y ago
Django & jQuery - These two tools have made web development fun for me, again. Clojure/Lisp - I've had a Lisp like language on my languages-to-learn to-do list for long Redis - Looks like an excellent NoSQL DB to begin learning this new concept with.
kylemathews 17y ago
Drupal, jQuery, Chrome
profquail 17y ago
Math.NET Numerics: http://numerics.mathdotnet.com/ http://numerics.mathdotnet.com/ Merging of the two largest open-source .NET math libraries...should be an excellent library when it's complete.
siong1987 17y ago
Cramp - http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/7/introducing-cramp http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/7/introducing-cramp Ruby equivalent of Tornado?
kls 17y ago
Dojo They have a comprehensive toolkit for building complex web-app front ends.
mchadwick 17y ago
The Linux kernel (Popular. Not hot nor trendy). Over the past 12 months, I've touched Redis, Node.js, Clojure, and a few others on this list, but nothing blows my mind more than learning a new system call or OS feature. Learn the exact copy on write semantics of forking (What happens to file handles? Threads? How does the OS know a paged needs to be copied?), copy two file descriptors with splice, put something in shared memory, move messages over an IPC queue.
andyjdavis 17y ago
If you have any interest/connection with education then http://moodle.org http://moodle.org It's used by millions of people all over the world (http://moodle.org/stats/ http://moodle.org/stats/) and is helping to make education more accessible.
Ixiaus 17y ago
PHP, KohanaPHP; Python; PLT-Scheme; Erlang/OTP; PostgreSQL; Apache, Lighttpd; Emacs; Firefox. Those are the essentials - I'm sure there is more.
Nyarly 17y ago
http://monotone.ca http://monotone.ca There's more to distributed VCS than Git.
rubinelli 17y ago
Hadoop and subprojects, specially Pig. It may be written in the unsexiest of languages, but if you have lots of data and need flexibility to do anything you want with it, Hadoop is your best friend.
lunatech 17y ago
Hadoop, Hive, Scribe
recurser 17y ago
Mogilefs, transmission & django
jrussbowman 17y ago
Tornado and mongodb... primarily beause I'm using them to develop my side project. Also have interests in Cassandra and seeing what happens with it in the future.

34 points by roder 17y ago

Just looking for projects - feel free to give a reason why.

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago

XBMC

abscondment 17y ago

Clojure, Redis

antirez 17y ago
and you can play with both at the same time with redis-clojure: http://github.com/ragnard/redis-clojure http://github.com/ragnard/redis-clojure that is, Clojure library for Redis.

nathanwdavis 17y ago

MongoDB

milestinsley 17y ago
+1 for MongoDB. I love in particular the lack of structured schema meaning you can arbitrarily modify records without migrating the DB. Also there's a growing, awesome community.

nathanwdavis 17y ago

COBOL :)

there 17y ago
http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

roder 17y ago

Riak

qw 17y ago

Jakarta. It may not be hot and trendy, but it's certainly popular Edit: To the persons who downvoted me. I was not being sarcastic. I use stuff from the Jakarta project on a daily basis.

jodrellblank 17y ago
I didn't downvote you for sarcasm, I had the plan to downvote everyone who posted {project} regardless of whether I like or dislike the project, and equally upvote everyone who posted {project because .. reasons or thoughts or justifications or content which took some time to write ..} But hardly anyone seems to have bothered, and I feel mean now so I've stopped. :/

olalonde 17y ago

jQuery

clofresh 17y ago

couchdb

olalonde 17y ago

Ruby on Rails

b-man 17y ago

plt scheme

Ixiaus 17y ago
I like PLT a lot - DrScheme is a great environment; the stepper is such a crucial tool, especially since I'm still in the learning stage.

huwshimi 17y ago

Django

adam-_- 17y ago

Redis, node.js & sinatra

adam-_- 17y ago
Also I'm a fan of Catalyst but it's not necessarily hot and trendy...

bradfordw 17y ago

Languages: Clojure, plt scheme and (I guess a little) newLISP. "noSQL": Riak, MongoDB, Redis, (I think the "new-ness" has worn off CouchDB") Trendy: node.js, ruby on rails, django, lift *Really any "web framework that promises to make development easier"

rictic 17y ago

node.js (both the core and projects which build upon it)

clemesha 17y ago
"I'd like to see Twisted take advantage of the hype around Node.js -- They're the same! Except Twisted is mature and does more. And is Python" -http://twitter.com/progrium/status/7900106071 http://twitter.com/progrium/status/7900106071
- siong1987 17y ago
  Try check out Cramp. http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/7/introducing-cramp http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/7/introducing-cramp. It's built on top of EventMachine - Ruby equivalent of Twisted.
- jazzychad 17y ago
  sigh.. I know python is cool and all (and I know Jeff (progrium) somewhat), but being able to do development in the front-end and backend with the same language (javascript) makes things so much easier sometimes. I am by no means a python expert (I'm still learning), but the two languages just feel different, and I really really enjoy the prototypical/functional nature of javascript. Maybe python has this as well, and I'm just missing it? Anyway, node.js deserves all the hype it is getting.
- simonw 17y ago
  There's one key difference between Node.js and Twisted / EventMachine / other non-blocking IO frameworks for existing languages: Node.js doesn't have any blocking function calls. You have to try really, really hard to block your event loop in Node.js. Every single library released for Node.js works asynchronously, and is hence safe to use. Not having to even worry about whether or not a library I want to use is blocking is a really useful feature.

jodrellblank 17y ago

Hot as in cool: Etherpad. Almost one of a kind, taken over and closed down then open sourced after a large backlash. I think a good additional web concept to join wikis and forums and sidebar-chats. Are you looking for something to use or something to contribute to or what? If you really care about popular and trendy, get some real data e.g. from http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/ http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/ and be surprised that the most popular of the past week are a package of Microsoft Fonts and an ERP, Accounting and CRM app. The most popular of all time are eMule and Azaureus file sharing and Sourceforge.net itself and the Crystal Space 3D SDK. In fact the most webby looking one in the lists seems to be PHPMyAdmin, of all things.

fizx 17y ago
It's possible that all of the more trendy apps have moved to Github by now.
- pjhyett 17y ago
  This page hasn't officially launched yet, but we're working on exposing trending repos: http://github.com/explore http://github.com/explore edit: naturally, 5 minutes after I wrote this we decided to go live with it http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=1069047 http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=1069047
dan_the_welder 17y ago
Which "ERP, Accounting and CRM app" ? List seems to change fast.
- jodrellblank 17y ago
  "Most Active (Overall) (Last 7 Days)", top of the list is: "PostBooks ERP, accounting, CRM by xTuple - CRM, ERP, Accounting" It shouldn't change fast if it is based on 7 days of traffic, but who knows what SForge does internally.

jacquesm 17y ago

clojure squeak

ambulatorybird 17y ago

LÖVE (http://love2d.org/ http://love2d.org/) -- a 2d game library for Lua. It's simple, easy to use, cross-platform, and allows for convenient distribution of finished products. (It's not really popular or trendy, but I think it's cool and I like it a lot.)

cmars232 17y ago
Thanks for new shiny thing! This does look cool.. what a great excuse for learning Lua!

ashleyw 17y ago

Ruby on Rails, node.js, MongoDB, jQuery, Webkit, Sinatra, HAML+SASS

mbrubeck 17y ago

WebKit/Chrome/V8 are leading the way in web standards implementation, with Firefox/Gecko/TraceMonkey also doing lots of great stuff. Haskell is really taking off, both in terms of compiler improvements and in the size of the community and available libraries. I'm using it for several projects now. MagLev, LuaJIT, Unladen Swallow, and V8 (again) are all exciting because they're bringing modern dynamic language VMs closer to Java-like (and sometimes even C-like) speeds. Android - my phone runs an open source OS, I can install software on it without an app store, and it can run SSH, Python, and Lua. Sweet!

jaggs 17y ago

hobo

simonw 17y ago

Redis - I wrote about why in October ( http://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/22/redis/ http://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/22/redis/ ) and it's gained some awesome new features since then, including ordered sets and blocking fetch against queues. It's a very different beast from the other stuff that gets branded as NoSQL.

mattdennewitz 17y ago

mongodb, mongoengine, redis, node, tornado, neo4j, django want to play with openframeworks and cvtypes, but haven't had time

Rabidgremlin 17y ago

Boxee http://www.boxee.tv/ http://www.boxee.tv/

christefano 17y ago

I don't know about hot and trendy, but these are a few open source projects that come to mind that make my life and work much, much easier: Drupal jQuery (included in Drupal) Xdebug EtherPad Adium Miro Quicksilver Clyppan

rmanocha 17y ago

Django & jQuery - These two tools have made web development fun for me, again. Clojure/Lisp - I've had a Lisp like language on my languages-to-learn to-do list for long Redis - Looks like an excellent NoSQL DB to begin learning this new concept with.

kylemathews 17y ago

Drupal, jQuery, Chrome

profquail 17y ago

Math.NET Numerics: http://numerics.mathdotnet.com/ http://numerics.mathdotnet.com/ Merging of the two largest open-source .NET math libraries...should be an excellent library when it's complete.

siong1987 17y ago

Cramp - http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/7/introducing-cramp http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/7/introducing-cramp Ruby equivalent of Tornado?

kls 17y ago

Dojo They have a comprehensive toolkit for building complex web-app front ends.

mchadwick 17y ago

The Linux kernel (Popular. Not hot nor trendy). Over the past 12 months, I've touched Redis, Node.js, Clojure, and a few others on this list, but nothing blows my mind more than learning a new system call or OS feature. Learn the exact copy on write semantics of forking (What happens to file handles? Threads? How does the OS know a paged needs to be copied?), copy two file descriptors with splice, put something in shared memory, move messages over an IPC queue.

andyjdavis 17y ago

If you have any interest/connection with education then http://moodle.org http://moodle.org It's used by millions of people all over the world (http://moodle.org/stats/ http://moodle.org/stats/) and is helping to make education more accessible.

Ixiaus 17y ago

PHP, KohanaPHP; Python; PLT-Scheme; Erlang/OTP; PostgreSQL; Apache, Lighttpd; Emacs; Firefox. Those are the essentials - I'm sure there is more.

Nyarly 17y ago

http://monotone.ca http://monotone.ca There's more to distributed VCS than Git.

rubinelli 17y ago

Hadoop and subprojects, specially Pig. It may be written in the unsexiest of languages, but if you have lots of data and need flexibility to do anything you want with it, Hadoop is your best friend.

lunatech 17y ago

Hadoop, Hive, Scribe

recurser 17y ago

Mogilefs, transmission & django

jrussbowman 17y ago

Tornado and mongodb... primarily beause I'm using them to develop my side project. Also have interests in Cassandra and seeing what happens with it in the future.