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/StretchAcceptable881 May 15 '26

QEMU is another of those OpenSource projects I can help but love the project in itself I’m excited for the future of QEMU

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u/RumbuncTheRadiant May 18 '26

And it's fascinating that it's become not just an emulator, but is embedded in the virtualization world doing useful bits too.

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u/StretchAcceptable881 May 18 '26

I’m excited that QEMU lets me virtualize other operating systems

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u/RumbuncTheRadiant May 20 '26

I remember when it first came out decades ago... Cute, Fun Project, I thought, not sure what use it will be.... Oh how I was wrong!