git init
The first commits of software that changed the world.
Every great project started somewhere. See the humble beginnings of the tools you use every day.
Operating Systems
Linux
180k+The Linux kernel - powering billions of devices worldwide
"Linux-2.6.12-rc2"
— Linus Torvalds
FreeBSD
8k+The FreeBSD operating system - rock-solid Unix
"Initial import from 4.4BSD-Lite"
— Rodney W. Grimes
Android
45k+The Android mobile operating system
"Initial Contribution"
— The Android Open Source Project
Programming Languages
Python
63k+The Python programming language
"Initial revision"
— Guido van Rossum
Go
125k+The Go programming language designed at Google
"hello, world"
— Brian Kernighan
Rust
98k+A language empowering everyone to build reliable software
"initial import"
— Graydon Hoare
TypeScript
100k+TypeScript is JavaScript with syntax for types
"Initial commit"
— Mohamed Hegazy
Ruby
22k+A dynamic, open source programming language focused on simplicity
"Initial revision"
— Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto
PHP
38k+The PHP programming language - powering most of the web
"Import PHP 3.0.8"
— Rasmus Lerdorf
Perl
1.8k+The Practical Extraction and Report Language
"a]\sym6500: Strstrcat, since strcat is built-in"
— Larry Wall
Swift
67k+A powerful and intuitive programming language from Apple
"first commit"
— Chris Lattner
Kotlin
49k+A modern programming language that makes developers happier
"Initial commit"
— JetBrains Team
Node.js
108k+JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine
"add dependencies"
— Ryan Dahl
Frameworks
React
225k+A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
"Initial commit"
— Jordan Walke
Vue.js
208k+The Progressive JavaScript Framework
"init"
— Evan You
Angular
59k+The original AngularJS framework that started it all
"Initial commit"
— Misko Hevery
Django
80k+The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
"Removed ASCII art from LICENSE file"
— Adrian Holovaty
Ruby on Rails
56k+Web development that doesn't hurt
"Initial"
— David Heinemeier Hansson
Express.js
65k+Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
"Initial commit"
— TJ Holowaychuk
Next.js
128k+The React Framework for Production
"Initial commit"
— Guillermo Rauch
Svelte
80k+Cybernetically enhanced web apps - a compiler, not a framework
"first commit"
— Rich Harris
Flask
68k+A micro web framework for Python
"Initial commit of the flask app"
— Armin Ronacher
Spring Boot
75k+Convention over configuration for Spring applications
"Initial commit"
— Phil Webb
FastAPI
78k+Modern, fast web framework for building APIs with Python
"Initial commit"
— Sebastián Ramírez
jQuery
59k+The library that made JavaScript bearable
"Initial commit"
— John Resig
Developer Tools
Git
52k+The world's most popular version control system
"Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell"
— Linus Torvalds
Docker
68k+Container platform that changed deployment forever
"Initial commit"
— Solomon Hykes
Kubernetes
110k+Production-Grade Container Orchestration
"Initial skeleton for open source project"
— Joe Beda
Terraform
43k+Infrastructure as Code for any cloud
"Initial commit"
— Mitchell Hashimoto
Ansible
63k+Simple, agentless IT automation
"Initial commit"
— Michael DeHaan
VS Code
165k+Visual Studio Code - the most popular code editor
"Initial public release"
— Benjamin Pasero
webpack
64k+A static module bundler for modern JavaScript applications
"start"
— Tobias Koppers
Homebrew
41k+The missing package manager for macOS
"Initial commit"
— Max Howell
Babel
43k+The JavaScript compiler - use next generation JS today
"Initial commit"
— Sebastian McKenzie
curl
36k+Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs
"Initial revision"
— Daniel Stenberg
Lodash
60k+A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity and performance
"Initial commit"
— John-David Dalton
NGINX
25k+High-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy
"Initial revision"
— Igor Sysoev
OpenSSL
26k+TLS/SSL and crypto library - securing the internet
"Import of old SSLeay release"
— Eric A. Young
Databases
SQLite
8k+The most used database engine in the world
"initial empty check-in"
— D. Richard Hipp
Redis
67k+In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache, and message broker
"first commit"
— Salvatore Sanfilippo
MongoDB
26k+The most popular document database
"Initial commit"
— Dwight Merriman
PostgreSQL
16k+The world's most advanced open source database
"Initial cvs import"
— Marc G. Fournier
Elasticsearch
71k+Distributed search and analytics engine
"Initial import"
— Shay Banon
Other
Bitcoin
80k+The original cryptocurrency that started it all
"Initial code commit"
— Satoshi Nakamoto
Ethereum
48k+The world computer - programmable blockchain
"Initial commit"
— Vitalik Buterin
TensorFlow
186k+Open source machine learning framework
"Initial commit of TensorFlow"
— TensorFlow Team
PyTorch
84k+Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python
"Initial commit"
— Adam Paszke
LLaMA
60k+Open and efficient foundation language models from Meta
"Initial commit"
— Meta AI