Are there any notable software projects done by traditionally non-software companies?

• ChezScheme

  27 6,844 9.0 Scheme

  Chez Scheme

  

The link doesn't work for me but to answer the title, I found it interesting to learn that Chez Scheme (often regarded as the Scheme implementation which produces the fastest programs) is developed by Cisco, the company that makes networking hardware

• pandoc

  420 32,312 9.8 Haskell

  Universal markup converter

Not sure how notable they need to be but the excellent pandoc: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc was written by a philosophy professor and the excellent org-mode for emacs https://orgmode.org/ was written by an astronomer.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• github-orgmode-tests

  245 147 4.8

  This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

Not sure how notable they need to be but the excellent pandoc: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc was written by a philosophy professor and the excellent org-mode for emacs https://orgmode.org/ was written by an astronomer.

• react-helmet

  58 17,217 0.0 JavaScript

  A document head manager for React

  

React Helmet is from the USA NFL National Football League. https://github.com/nfl/react-helmet

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