Are there any notable Chinese FLOSS projects?

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Where is the Chinese open-source community?Maybe it's because I only see the English-language internet, but I'm curious if there are any notable free software projects that have originated from China? I believe OpenResty was originally developed at Taobao and then later on taken up at CloudFlare. Are there any others?

rektide · Accepted Answer

I run into way more and more. Apologies for lack of links. But I see far less US open source big projects, more Chinese & others.
Apisix is a great api gateway with ton of Chinese drivers. I swear I have a bunch of other places I've been impressed to.
I hate to say it, but it worries me a lot that we have this feeling. I think we are more insensitive, less aware of what efforts are out there. We focus too much on well known existing projects. That we would consider the question this way indicates that we are simply less connected with what's happening than we used to be, we're more spread out.

stocktech · Answer

https://github.com/apache/doris Is a great example. Same for it's cousin https://github.com/StarRocks/starrocks that was an early fork of the doris project.To be fair, these are the only examples I can think of and I only learned of these as I'm standing up new data infra using starrocks.

jruohonen · Answer

An interesting question. Here are some clues:
https://merics.org/en/report/china-bets-open-source-technolo...
While Chinese developers appear to have been quite prolific contributions, it seems that China is now moving toward establishing its own platforms, foundations, and projects within its own Internet.

mindcrime · Answer

PaddlePaddle?https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleAlso, Baidu have quite a few OSS projects out there in general.https://github.com/baidu

bjourne · Answer

The ZK framework was started by Chinese developers: https://www.zkoss.org/

fsflover · Answer

Does Pine64 count? https://pine64.org

throwawaysalome · Answer

Where is the Chinese open-source communityDid you not read Vonnegut's Slapstick (1976). They're everywhere!The bulk of it is on gitee.com since China skews towards a NIH bent dating back to dynastic times.

Are there any notable Chinese FLOSS projects?

https://github.com/apache/doris Is a great example. Same for it's cousin https://github.com/StarRocks/starrocks that was an early fork of the doris project.
To be fair, these are the only examples I can think of and I only learned of these as I'm standing up new data infra using starrocks.

PaddlePaddle?
https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle
Also, Baidu have quite a few OSS projects out there in general.
https://github.com/baidu

The ZK framework was started by Chinese developers: https://www.zkoss.org/

Does Pine64 count? https://pine64.org

Where is the Chinese open-source community
Did you not read Vonnegut's Slapstick (1976). They're everywhere!
The bulk of it is on gitee.com since China skews towards a NIH bent dating back to dynastic times.