Social Coding Trends


#1

Google App Engine

205 Mentions    Python
  Google App Engine lets you run web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's rea...
 

Web 

#2

homebrew

65 Mentions    Ruby
  The missing package manager for OS X.
 

Desktop  OS X 

#3

sass

45 Mentions    Ruby
  Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
 

Web  CSS 

 
#4

picturefill

40 Mentions    JavaScript
  A Responsive Images approach that you can use today, that mimics the proposed picture element using divs, for safety sake. Currently, picturefill.js compresses to around 498bytes (~0.5kb), after minify and gzip.
 

Web  Data Format  Graphics 

#5

VIM Clutch by A. Levchuk

40 Mentions    VimL
  VIM Clutch is a hardware pedal for improved text editing speed for users of the magnificent VIM text editor (1, 2). When the pedal is pressed down, the pedal types "i" causing VIM to go into Insert Mode. When released, it types <Esc> and you are back in Normal Mode.
 

#6

CocoaPods

35 Mentions    Ruby
  Objective-C library manager. CocoaPods manages library dependencies for your Xcode project. You specify the dependencies for your project in one easy text file. CocoaPods resolves dependencies between libraries, fetches source code for the dependencies, and creates and maintains an Xcode worksp...
 

CLI  OS X 

#7

audacity

30 Mentions
  A fast multi-track audio editor and recorder for Linux, BSD, Mac OS, and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo.
 

Windows  Audio  *nix  Desktop  OS X 

#8

git

25 Mentions
  Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
 

#9

Piggydb

25 Mentions    Java
  Piggydb is an open source Web notebook application that provides you with a platform to build your knowledge personally or collaboratively. Piggydb does not aim to be an input-and-search database application. It aims to be a platform that encourages you to organize your knowledge continuously to ...
 

Web 

#10

go

25 Mentions    Go
  Go is an expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected programming language
 

Language 

#11

scriptcs

20 Mentions    C#
  scriptcs makes it easy to write and execute C# with a simple text edito
 

Web 

#12

Firefox-OS-Boilerplate-App

20 Mentions    JavaScript
  This is a demo app for Firefox OS, loosely based on fxosstub, meant to act as a simple boilerplate for getting started with apps for Firefox OS.
 

Web  OS  Firefox 

#13

biebian

20 Mentions
  Justin Bieber Linux, also called Biebian, is a Justin Bieber-themed Puppy Linux derivative. It may be Justin Bieber Linux, but it still beats Windows and Mac.
 

Desktop  Linux 

#14

legacy-cc

15 Mentions    C
  The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr.
 

Language  Compiler 

#15

textmate

15 Mentions    Objective-C
  This repository contains the source code for TextMate 2, a text editor for OS X 10.7+.
 

Desktop  OS X 

#16

CoVim

15 Mentions    VimL
  One of Vim's most requested features is here!CoVim is a Vim Plugin that adds real-time collaboration to your favorite text editor. Think Google Docs for Vim.
 

Vim 

#17

diosmios

15 Mentions    C
  DIOS MIOS (Lite) - Play your Nintendo GameCube disc backups on Wii from an USB device or SD card
 

Game 

#18

angular.js

15 Mentions    JavaScript
  AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes ...
 

Web  HTML 

#19

groovy-core

15 Mentions    Groovy
  Groovy is an agile and dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine. It builds upon the strengths of Java, but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk.
 

Virtualization  Language 

#20

unetbootin

15 Mentions
  UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux...
 

Windows  Desktop  OS X  Linux  Boot