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Zero to one: A list of projects which made it to the top
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.
Into: Change is the only constant?
"Change is the only constant" is not true any more. There are some things which won't change soon.
Linux
The one and only operating system for servers.
Solarix, AIX, HP-UX, .... are dead.
git
In the past there were many different distributed version control system.
github
The central place to work on source code in teams.
Paypal
54% market share, next is stripe with 18%. Source
More than 90% market share.
Stackoverflow
The most widely used Q+A plattform for tech related questions.
Chrome
70% market share. Or even moer if you count chromium based browsers, too.
HTML
Native GUIs (qt, gtk, tkinter, ....) are hardly used these days.
http/https
Most other protocols are not used any more.
Although there are many competitors, email is still the single common denominator.
Typescript
Coffeescript is out.
Typescript has won in the category "JS wrapper". But maybe there is no need for a JS wrapper?
Wordpress
Many competitors, but no one comes close to the market share of the Wordpress.
JSON
At the moment most APIs use JSON as data interchange format.
Althoug JSON is limited compared to proto-buf
UTF-8
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?
Who will make it to the top?
Wild opinionated guesses
Kubernetes
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.
VSCode
I use PyCharm, but the open source IDE vscode develops fast. I think it will win in the long run.
Terraform
Terraform, Write infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files
Bazel
Bazel - a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system