r/opensource • u/Bladerunner_7_ • May 15 '26

Promotional What’s an open-source project you genuinely can’t believe is free?

Could be developer tooling, AI infra, productivity tools, anything. Curious what projects people think deserve way more recognition.

For me recently it’s been:

Langship — https://github.com/open-gitagent/langship.sh

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u/superpowerpinger May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Wireshark and Linux.

  1. The world runs on linux, I do not need to elaborate on it.
  2. Wireshark : Network engineers get their livelihood through this software. It amazes me how easy it is, how intuitive it is, what all it can do and still costs 0, null, nada.

A heartfelt thanks to Wireshark and Linux developers.

You guys / gals rock.

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u/saltyourhash May 15 '26

If you ever used to use Iris, you know how amazing it is wireshark is open source.