'Best Open Source Developer Software of 2018' Chosen By InfoWorld

This week InfoWorld unveiled their annual list of "the leading open source projects for software development, cloud computing, big data, and machine learning." [E]ven as we grapple with the likes of microservice architecture, distributed data processing frameworks, deep neural networks, and "dapps," we remain steadfast in our commitment to bring you -- this year and every year -- the best that open source has to offer.

In this year's edition, you'll find our picks for the best open source software development tools, cloud computing platforms, databases and data analytics tools, and machine learning and deep learning libraries. From Kubernetes and Docker to TensorFlow and PyTorch (49 projects in all), these are the projects that are ushering in the next stage of enterprise computing.
An anonymous reader writes: Their choices for the best open source software for software development include .NET Core, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, and Jenkins, as well as programming languages like Kotlin, Julia, and Rust. ("By now it's something of a cliche to talk about Rust as the next step beyond C and C++. So be it...") And their final award for best open source development software went, surprisingly, to Vanilla JS.

"Some clever wag created a website that promises that the Vanilla JS library will be the smallest JS framework you'll ever use and then delivers a zip file with zero bytes of code along with the suggestion that you should just use the built-in function calls in JavaScript to manipulate the DOM."

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[BeaueHD]

Conflict of interest anyone? Who's the biggest advertiser? ;=D

InfoWorld?

[nyet]

Yea, didn't even have to read the article to know the winner would be a joke.

An award for JS?

[gweihir]

The list is obviously worthless or actually identifies really bad software...

The attention paid to these things is weird.

[hey!]

Editor's picks are opinions reflect editorial priorities, which include making a buck. They don't validate anything.

Which products are best is a question that can be answered two possible ways. The first is to canvass impartial experts who follow these things but have no vested interest in the answer -- if you can find such a rare beast.

The second is crowd sourcing. You could do a statistically defensible sampling of what people are actually using, and then figure out what is gaining and losing ground and why.

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[Actually, I do RTFA]

You could do a statistically defensible sampling of what people are actually using, and then figure out what is gaining and losing ground and why.

What's popular isn't necessarily good. In fact, they tend to be "one or the other"

Billions and billions served

[raymorris]

> What's popular isn't necessarily good.

Exactly. The most popular food brand in the world is probably McDonald's, certainly it's the most popular burger.

If that's not convincing enough, half the United States likes that other political party, and we all know how awful that party is.

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[evil_aaronm]

Vi is not an IDE: it's an editor. Would you use a hammer as a screw driver?

Re: Visual Studio Code?!

[spongman]

Wait, eclipse is an IDE, so it doesnâ(TM)t really compare. And sublime, while it is a text editor, it isnâ(TM)t open source.

Re: .Net and VS hahahaha

[Anonymous Coward]

This is not the old Visual Studio application. Microsoft created a new product: https://code.visualstudio.com

open source award

[tendajakarta]

where the list of software best ,nd have test review ?