In 2020, the landscape of open source software was dominated by tools facilitating cloud-native development, data analytics, and decentralized workflows. According to InfoWorld's 2020 Bossie Awards , the following projects were recognized for their significant impact and innovation: Web & Application Development
: This milestone release introduced major features like threaded I/O for increased speed and access control lists (ACLs) for better security. The best open source software of 2020
: A low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API that replaced OpenGL as the modern standard for high-performance gaming and graphics. The best open source software of 2020 - InfoWorld In 2020, the landscape of open source software
: An open source time-series database designed for high-performance ingestion and SQL-based queries. The best open source software of 2020
: An automatic hyperparameter optimization software framework particularly designed for machine learning.
