Inspired by the book Zero to One I created a list of projects which made it to the top. At the end there are some guesses which projects could make it into the list in the future.
About the book:
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters.
"Change is the only constant" is not true anymore. There are some things which won't change soon.
The one and only operating system for servers.
Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, .... are dead.
In the past there were many different distributed version control systems.
The central place to work on source code in teams.
54% market share, next is Stripe with 18%. Source
More than 90% market share.
The most widely used Q+A platform for tech-related questions.
70% market share. Or even more if you count Chromium-based browsers, too.
Native GUIs (Qt, GTK, Tkinter, ....) are hardly used these days.
Most other protocols are not used anymore.
Although there are many competitors, email is still the single common denominator.
CoffeeScript is out.
TypeScript has won in the category "JS wrapper". But maybe there is no need for a JS wrapper?
Many competitors, but no one comes close to the market share of WordPress.
At the moment most APIs use JSON as a data interchange format.
Although JSON is limited compared to Protocol Buffers
In the past, character encoding was a nightmare. Today UTF-8 solves almost all use cases.
See the nice chart at this page: Who uses Unicode?
Wild opinionated guesses
At the moment it is on the top yet. Many people still use VPS or services like Heroku.
But I guess sooner or later there won't be an alternative to K8s.
I use PyCharm, but the open source IDE VS Code develops fast. I think it will win in the long run.
Terraform, Write infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files
Bazel - a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
