With a lot of open source projects being worked on largely out of passion rather than financial gain I feel like there must have been several times where a release caught people off guard and “came out of nowhere” with its impressive scale.
To give some examples of how this might happen maybe it was an initial release dropped to the public in a complete state that had been worked on for a while privately or a project that was dormant for an extended period of time and picked back up.
Can anyone here think of an example? It doesn’t necessarily need to be something groundbreaking maybe it got people excited in a very specific niche.
If you do have an answer I’d appreciate it if you could elaborate on it.
Florisboard (Android keyboard) was recently updated for the first time in two years. Literally one day after I had given up on it and uninstalled it.
https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard
Is the autocorrect any better than Heliboard?
Edit: I didn’t mean to imply that it’s bad; it’s just not very good. Then again, that may also not be Heliboard’s fault. It personally feels like keyboards in general have become worse at autocorrect during the last ten or so years.