Are there any notable software projects done by traditionally non-software companies?

• ChezScheme

  27 6,864 9.0 Scheme

  Chez Scheme

  

The link doesn't work for me but to answer the title, I found it interesting to learn that Chez Scheme (often regarded as the Scheme implementation which produces the fastest programs) is developed by Cisco, the company that makes networking hardware

• pandoc

  420 32,599 9.8 Haskell

  Universal markup converter

Not sure how notable they need to be but the excellent pandoc: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc was written by a philosophy professor and the excellent org-mode for emacs https://orgmode.org/ was written by an astronomer.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• github-orgmode-tests

  245 148 4.8

  This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

Not sure how notable they need to be but the excellent pandoc: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc was written by a philosophy professor and the excellent org-mode for emacs https://orgmode.org/ was written by an astronomer.

• react-helmet

  58 17,245 0.0 JavaScript

  A document head manager for React

  

React Helmet is from the USA NFL National Football League. https://github.com/nfl/react-helmet

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