Discussion on: What software projects made you "wow" 🤯

[Lewis Cowles]

Games

• 90's point & click engines
• Dark Reign & Dark Reign 2
• World of Warcraft
• Spore
• No mans sky
• Fallout 3, NV, 4

OS's

• Windows 98
• BeOS
• Minix
• Linux
• BSD

IDE's

• Visual Basic 5 & 6
• Visual Studio
• SharpDevelop
• Netbeans
• Visual Studio Code
• Macromedia Flash 4-8

Text Editors

• GEdit
• Hesky Data Software Pad
• Helios Software Solutions - TextPad

Debuggers

• Visual Studio
• PDB (with pdbpp)

Project management & Productivity

• Trello
• WeKan

Creative & Design

• PlantUML
• Graphviz
• flowmapp
• Sony DVD & VCD creator (90's / 00's software)
• Adobe InDesign & Macromedia / Adobe Fireworks

Any emulator that exists and works
WINE (because it's not an emulator)
linux/unix mount

Repeatability / IaC

• Docker (specifically with compose)
• VirtualBox
• Ansible
• Vagrant

Misc

• The old tabbed CD browsers
• Microsoft 1990's interactive CD-ROM's like Dangerous Creatures
• SSH
• Open source cryptography (OpenSSH, FreeTLS etc)
• CURL (many other haxx.se projects)
• postman

Programming

• PHP
• Python
• Golang
• C & C++ standards communities
• Rust

Databases

• MySQL, Sqlite, postgres
• Redis
• MongoDB
• Neo4J
• Elasticsearch

Web Servers

• Nginx (from apache & IIS, it kicks ass)

Content Generation

• Jekyll
• WordPress
• Various automatic documentation generators

Media

• YouTube
• Netflix
• VLC