Only one open-source project can be saved for future humanity. Which one would you choose?

My answer? Git.

Comments

[Makar]

Linux 🖤

[Hasin Hayder]

since many people already opted in for linux, I am not going that way

I want vscode to live forever :D

:)

[Gianluca Scacco]

Emacs

[matthew-salerno]

TempleOS, I want to watch the world burn.

[Lucca Biagi]

Maybe Vlang. I think that with this language the future humanity would be able to create nice new things!

[yvesnrb]

It would have to be a general purpose programming language, so that we could rebuild the world from it. Maybe even LLVM so we could rebuild the languages themselves.

[Matias Carpintini]

Rails :p

[Ben Sinclair]

FizzBuzz.

[Harley]

A project that collects the "Hello World" in various languages.

And then, human makes the code world begin again.

[Karan Gandhi]

It's really problemtatic to choose one. But GCC probably.This way I would still be able to build free software on top of closed source OS.

[Phil Ashby]

Whatever is required to read the GitHub arctic backup..

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

What's the point of being able to read a backup that's no longer there? 🤔

[Phil Ashby]

I was trying to cheat, assuming that a backup still existed, but I guess the question rules that out implicitly, in which case I choose a hard copy of Wikipedia...

[Anurag Vohra]

Linux. The rest can build on top of it always.
V8 Would also be in my list, right after Linux

[Arnaud Dagnelies]

I would hesitate between Chromium, Python and Linux. It's really hard to pick.

[Jeremy Friesen]

Gnu Emacs; you get a programming language and an extensible text editor.

But…I suppose you'll need an OS on which to operate, so Linux seems to be a pre-requisite.

[Jon Ashdown]

Neo4j. It can be used to make massive knowledge bases of linked data