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by Someone 668 days ago
Apache is both popular and “the place where projects go to die”. They have many, many projects that see limited development activity and aren’t well-known (how many projects in https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?name do you even vaguely know of what they’re about?)

I also think the popularity of the Apache license is part of what makes Apache popular.

> I thought it was the uncool place where stuff was written in Java

They have lots of projects running on the JVM, but “written in Java” isn’t a requirement, nor is “running on the JVM”. See https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language

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EDIT: wrote something stupid here before my morning coffee
This is an Eclipse foundation project, not an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) project?

it's all volunteers/open source, but this isn't an ASF project.

I'm sorry, I hadn't finished my coffee yet.

I'm gonna go embarrasingly delete this thread tail between my legs...