10. Julia
9. Xorg
8. VS Code
7. Windows 11
6. Chromium
5. gcc
4. AOSP
3. Python
2. Git
1. Linux

Honorable mention: LibreOffice

eazy_egirl
This is outrageous. Do you really even know what free software is? You seem to conflate "free" as in "free speech" with "free" as in "free beer". Like are you alright? You include VS Code for Ch*&@#'s sake. That's not even proper open source software, which you'd know if you had an eighth of a neuron floating around in your "head". And Python? It's just some high level nonsense HR and web devs tell us is "important" for the sake of keeping their jobs. I don't know a *single* situation where it performs well enough to warrant usage in the real world. H*ck you don't even list a real language like C. Get it together, man.

First of all, all of the software I have named is licensed under free, or even copyleft, licenses. It's obvious to me that you don't know anything in the slightest about FOSS.

eazy_egirl
And Python? It's just some high level nonsense HR and web devs tell us is "important" for the sake of keeping their jobs.

By "python", I'm referring to CPython, the reference Python interpreter. Not only is it a righteous piece of software, it's FOSS and free for all to inspect, modify, and redistribute.

Smily104

eazy_egirl
And Python? It's just some high level nonsense HR and web devs tell us is "important" for the sake of keeping their jobs.

By "python", I'm referring to CPython, the reference Python interpreter. Not only is it a righteous piece of software, it's FOSS and free for all to inspect, modify, and redistribute.

Why even bother. You could be using Numba. You could be using Pyston. You could be using JIT'ted ECMAScript. but *no*. You choose Cython. That's not even a Python interpreter, it's just a backend for the language. How much do you really know about the subject of this stuff? More importantly if you care about performance, you would've ranked Julia significantly higher. If you cared about portability, you'd put GCC higher. There's a million libraries better than python. All the best python libraries, after all, are written in C or R.

Thats it. I'm not responding to any more of your comments.

eazy_egirl

Smily104

eazy_egirl
And Python? It's just some high level nonsense HR and web devs tell us is "important" for the sake of keeping their jobs.

By "python", I'm referring to CPython, the reference Python interpreter. Not only is it a righteous piece of software, it's FOSS and free for all to inspect, modify, and redistribute.

More importantly if you care about performance, you would've ranked Julia significantly higher. If you cared about portability, you'd put GCC higher. There's a million libraries better than python. All the best python libraries, after all, are written in C or R.

Sure. Julia may have better performance than Python, but it's worse than C or Rust. It strikes a nice balance between ease-of-use and performance, better than most, but Python is still easier to use.

Python is useful for scientific computing and data science - much like Julia. But it also excels at shell scripting, web development, machine learning. It's simply a more versatile language.

You want good free software? Look at curl. Look at make. Look at IRC clients. Look at apt/yum/pacman or other package managers. These are all shining examples of what the free software community has to offer. And you bring up Python. You can't even do concurrency properly in python due to the GIL. I concede that clueless data scientists use and will continue to use Python long after it's lost its luster to upcoming (FOSS!) languages like Crystal, Nim, or Go.
 

Smily104
Yes, and all C packages are written in assembly. We can continue this way ad absurdum

NO! We can't continue! This is complete nonsense, man!!! This is so typical of a Python fanatic. You come in here spouting these lies about python, as if you never really talked to someone outside your bubble! A huge part of the reason for FOSS' limited uptake is the widespread impression that, like you, the FOSS community is needlessly opinionated and combative. Educate yourself. Go outside. Touch grass. Talk to *real* developers who solve *real* problems instead of throwing some machine learning algorithm (usually implemented in C++!!) that they don't understand on some dataset that their employer gives them, then say that pigs will fly in 5 years.
 

Smily104

eazy_egirl
LLVM isn't even on your list dic*we*d.

It is. Reread my list.

ugh. read your own gos*darn list.

Smily104
It's design sets it apart.

Its

 
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