'Best Open Source Software of 2021' Identified by InfoWorld Listicle

"Money may not grow on trees," argues InfoWorld, "but it does grow in GitHub repos." (as well as other open-source code-hosting sites). "Open source projects produce the most valuable and sophisticated software on the planet, free for the taking, dramatically lowering the costs of information technology for all companies..." Then they picked out a few to recognize and honor with their 2021 Best of Open Source Software Awards. The winners include: Windows Terminal, which they describe as a command-line terminal application with GPU-accelerated rendering giving "an order-of-magnitude performance boost over the older console host... Configuration options let you customize terminal appearance and behavior in ways never possible before." Crystal, "a project to deliver a programming language with the speed of C and the expressiveness of Ruby" which can interface with C code. (Version 1.0 was released this spring after years of development.) Flutter, Google's UI toolkit for generating natively-compiled mobile/web/desktop applications (based on Dart). Presto, an open source distributed SQL engine, and BlazingSQL, a GPU-accelerated SQL engine. Apache Superset (an enterprise-ready business intelligence web application offering easy dataset visualization) and Apache Solr, a search platform built on Apache Lucerne. ("Unlike Elasticsearch, which dropped its open source license, Solr is still free.")

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