Be it a historical project, a brilliantly built npm package, an application, etc. What has struck you as an incredible feat of software development?
It doesn't have to be massive in scope, it could just be one awesomely thought out class, but if you've ever been incredibly impressed, let's hear about it.
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Svelte.js .. I think its gonna change the landscape of web development.
I will go with AdonisJS. This NodeJS framework basically facilitated my transition from PHP to JavaScript & Node development
I would have to say the new Blender 2.8 ( blender.org/download/releases/2-80/ ). I've always felt that Blender was super amazing, but was hampered by an obscure user interface. They've done a lot to fix that in the latest release, and it's simply a brilliant piece of software. It's like having a spellbook from a powerful mage, and in the right hands, it can do magic.
Laravel 💯
Games
OS's
IDE's
Text Editors
Debuggers
Project management & Productivity
Creative & Design
Any emulator that exists and works
WINE (because it's not an emulator)
linux/unix mount
Repeatability / IaC
Misc
Programming
Databases
Web Servers
Content Generation
Media
Lucene - it brought Google quality querying to the masses. I worked with an early C# port and it made my terrible website with an access database backend feel incredibly smart!
As amazing as it is, it was the excellent blog post and code from Tom White for his "Did you mean" that really blew me away (now only available via Wayback Machine, thanks for nothing, Oracle!).
I remember I adapted his spell index to use our own content rather than a dictionary to avoid suggesting words to users that weren't in our index, only to find spelling mistakes being suggested thanks to less diligent authors!
It has to be Docker for me. Vagrant was decently impressive when it first came out, but Docker and Docker Compose really crushed it with being able to spin up a whole stack with just a few lines of yml (and the similarly succinct Dockerfile).
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First love : Firefox.
First mariage : Open street map !
First mistress : rust
Second mistress : docker.
And for the js part, anything by @webreflexion, especially heresy and heresy-ssr !
Chrome and Firefox. The web is so ridiculously complex I'm amazed anything works.