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🔥 Top 11 Open Source Innovators Who Shaped the Developer World as We Live Today 🔭🔭

Shreya on November 06, 2023

Celebrating few minds behind today's tech. As a small thank you to these open source creators, I wanted to highlight a few who have shaped the dev...
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php-rocs • Edited

PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf should be in this list (in the top 10). The impact of PHP has been and still is massive regardless of opinions.

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Shreya

thanks for sharing. I'll put his name in the next blog.

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Praful

There are many greats. Another one is Bram Moolenaar, who created Vim over 30 years ago and continued to work on it until he recently died.

The praise after his death was quite something: github.com/vim/vim/discussions/12737

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Nevo David

All are really great open-source innovators!

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Shreya

yes they are!

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annaredbond

Oooh! Interesting, and as @garrrikkotua said, I've never heard of several of these!

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Igor Kotua

Great article, I didn't know about many of them before

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Shreya

I too. that's why i wrote them :)

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Nathan Tarbert

Nice, this is a list of legends! Thanks for sharing

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Bap

Really nice!

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Harsh Mangalam

I will really like to include @mhevery in this list created angularjs , angular, karma and now Qwik full of innovations and inspirations for other open sourcers.

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AndroVision

You missed John Carmack!
Btw, nice article.

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Shreya

thank for reading the article. I am glad you liked it.

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Rebeccca Peltz

Interesting that more than 1/2 are Javascript based!

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Claudio Stella

You forgot John Resig who with its jquery could have be set the starting point of the whole javascript reconsideration