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I think htop and lua are probably the two main Brazilian contributions to the open source community.

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I wager Elixir counts.

Wow, had no idea Elixir was created by a Brazilian as well. Nice, thanks!

Yes :)

Here's a little bit of the story on how we create it: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2015/01/introducing-elixir-...

... and the main author of Lua was the PhD advisor of the author of htop. Small world :)

Thiago de Arruda started neovim.

Elixir is definitely up there!

I don't know why, but seeing Brazilians doing good on open source makes me happy and encourages me to contribute too!

I vote for http://cycle.js.org/

Marcelo Tosatti work on the 2.4 linux kernel? Conectiva before it got merged with Mandrake?

The Clojure debugger in CIDER was written by a Brazilian. Obrigado!

pyside i think origins from same country

Apropos of nothing: does country of origin (or is it residence; or residence of the main contributors) tell us anything that is at all useful?

It seems like information - the sort people go 'oh really, how fascinating' to - but I can't really see how it's relevant.

Anyone want to chip in and make a stand for national identity or anything?

To me it's kinda like you said 'find and grep are the two main contributions to OSS from the flan-eating community'.

Yes, I should probably just keep such thoughts to myself ...

Oh and htop is awesome! Only used Lua on a Minecraft mod (and an not a programmer/CS) so can't really comment on it.

I think it's cool to see how these things are spreading round the world, and it's not just the US that creates useful software.

It's just a little point of interest. I don't often think about my life intersecting with the nation off of Brazil, yet I use htop every day. Now I'll probably cast my mind to a Brazilian rainforest when I do. Just makes the world a slightly more interesting place.

Thanks! Always nice when we help to make people's perceptions of places less unidimensional. Brazil is not only a place with rainforests, we also have coders! :)

(Though, even though I'm a (Southern) Brazilian myself, I used to think the whole "monkeys in the streets" here was a hoax until I moved to Rio de Janeiro and I realized they have tiny squirrel-sized monkeys running atop the power lines there!)

You're living in Rio de Janeiro? I'm sorry for you.

I feel the unidimensional thing. Australians don't actually ride kangaroos to work! There is, if I'm honest, a wallaby living in the bush that abuts my property, though.

You'll excuse me, however, for continuing to cast my mind to a tranquil rainforest rather than a Brazilian coder at a keyboard. I understand they both exist, but one is far more relaxing to contemplate than the other! :)

This is kinda what set me off, one tend to stereotype with such information - was out written on an xo laptop in a favela, in a logging camp, on a super-yacht - a country name means something, I'm just not sure what. Countries as groups of people just seem too arbitrary to me I guess.

This is a legitimate question. I'm brazilian and I constantly see Facebook posts in Portuguese highlighting "Of the top X things, Y are Brazilian!", whereas I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities.

My theory is that there are relatively few great international contributions from Brazil and we rejoice anytime we see one.

Lol you should try being from Iceland

Iceland has Sigur Rós. Don't be greedy.

> I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities.

Are you sure? Or do you just notice it less because the place names mean less to you personally?

Palto Alto / Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area (roughly the same places, right?) get mentioned all the time.

You know what's in Redmond, right? And what's in Utah? :)

Wwhen a news article talks about popular software/service being developed outside of California, they usually spend a little paragraph or so on the place (blablabla cold winters in Maine blabla data centre bla--just made that one up btw).

Greetings from the land that brought you Python, a shortest-path algorithm and compact-discs ;-)

Actually I think that a locality and a country are quite different. If instead the comment was "these both come out of Brasilia" then there's perhaps some sense - one might think that perhaps there is some local culture that's aiding this sort of development or that there might be a local initiative that's helping to create a tech hub of sorts [but it could of course just be serendipity]. But just having a country in common - suppose one main developer is in a favela using a XO laptop and another is in a high class penthouse apartment, what's the link then, why does them being in the same country mean anything, they might not even talk the same language or have the same ethnicity.

Some interesting thoughts, thanks to all for tolerating my ponderings.

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