Top 4 Python Foss Projects

Zulip

25 18,790 10.0 Python

Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.

Project mention: Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-02

(1) Zulip Chat - https://zulip.com/ - seems to be reasonably popular, but more people should know about it
I’ve been using it for over 5 years now [1], and it’s as good as ever. It’s way faster than any other chat app I’ve used. It has a good UI and conversation model. It has a simple and functional API that lets me curl threads and write blog posts based on them.
(only problem is that I Ctrl-+ in my browser to make the font bigger – I think it’s too dense for most people)
(2) re2c regex to state machine compiler - https://re2c.org
A gem from the 90’s, which people have done a great job maintaining and improving (getting Go and Rust target support in the last few years). I started using it in 2016, and used for a new program a few months ago. I came to the conclusion that it should have been built into C, because C has shitty string processing – and Ken Thompson both invented C AND brought regular languages to computing !!
In comparison, treesitter lexers are very low level, fiddly, and error prone. I recently saw dozens of ad hoc fixes to the tree-sitter-bash lexer, which is unsurprising if you look at the structure of the code (manually crawling through backslashes and braces in C).
https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash/blob/master/...
These fixes are definitely appreciated, but I think it indicates a problem with the model itself.
(based on https://lobste.rs/s/endspx/software_you_are_thankful_for#c_y...)
[1] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/04/26.html
fos-proposals

0 425 0.0 Python

:gift_heart: :penguin: Archive of GSoC proposals
InfluxDB

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appstore

6 265 8.1 Python

:convenience_store: App Store for Nextcloud

Project mention: Roundcube Open-Source Webmail Software Merges with Nextcloud | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-29

I have good news for you: https://apps.nextcloud.com
Nextcloud is nothing more than a collection of small apps. You can disable even core things like sharing.
awesome-hackernews

0 157 1.8 Python

A curated list of FOSS tools to improve the Hacker News experience.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-12-02.