Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

#41

Post by Breza » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 1:54 PM UTC

R! If you're a data person and you've never used R, give it a shot. It's a lovely language for cleaning and analyzing data, and the core development team keeps making improvements.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

#42

Post by rmoskal » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 3:41 PM UTC

Perhaps a little old fashioned, but Spring for java and others.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

#43

Post by michalu » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 3:46 PM UTC

Open Source Seeds.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

#44

Post by czue » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

Django! Literally owe my career to it and still enjoy using it daily.

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

#45

Post by hevisko » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 6:47 PM UTC

(Open)SSH Caddy PostgreSQL Linux - KVM/Qemu GCC/LLVM

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

#46

Post by designthinks » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 11:33 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

#47

Post by drpython » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 3:15 AM UTC

python, perl, LLVM, rust, Go, k8s

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

#48

Post by coldtrait » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 6:07 AM UTC

Discourse

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

#49

Post by rasulkireev » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 11:42 AM UTC

czue wrote: post #44

Django! Literally owe my career to it and still enjoy using it daily.

Django is a life-changer

Re: Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?

#50

Post by opyate » Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 1:39 PM UTC

drpython wrote: post #47

python, perl, LLVM, rust, Go, k8s

Seconding Python