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Joining the Open Source Pledge

Open Source

September 6, 2024 by

 Josh Cohenzadeh
Emerge Tools Open Source Pledge

At Emerge Tools, we recognize that our success is built on the shoulders of countless open-source contributors. Our products leverage a diverse ecosystem of open-source frameworks, libraries, and tools that form the backbone of modern software development.

While we've always been committed to giving back by open-sourcing some of our own tools, we're taking a step further in our commitment to the open-source community. We're excited to announce that we've joined the Open Source Pledge, an initiative that formalizes our financial support for the projects that superpowers our work.

As part of this pledge, we've already contributed $18,063 towards open-source in 2024, surpassing our initial goal of $2,000 per full-time developer & plan to maintain that standard into the future.

Open-Source We're Supporting

So far this year, we've donated to the following:

OSSDescriptionAmount
SwiftPackageIndexThe place to find Swift packages$6,000
LottieA library for Android, iOS, Web, and Windows that renders awesome animations$2,250
VaporA server-side Swift HTTP web framework$2,250
Marcin KrzyzanowskiCreator of essential iOS libraries including CryptoSwift, STTextView & OpenSSL$1,900
TuistA tool to create, maintain, and interact with Xcode projects at scale$1,800
ShotA screenshot testing library for Android$900
PeripheryA tool to identify unused code in Swift projects$900
Connor TumblesonCreator of Apktool, a tool for reverse engineering Android APK files$378
CocoaPodsA dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects$900
Wei WangCreator of Kingfisher, a powerful Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web$270
Christos KasketisCreator of Netfox, a lightweight iOS/OSX network debugging library$225
Sergio Sastre FlórezCreator of a great sample repo for screenshot testing on Android$100
David HéraultCreator of serverless-offline$100
DetektA static code analysis tool for Kotlin$90
Total$18,063

Our Commitment to Open-Source

We're also committed to contributing to the open-source community through our own projects:

  • Open-Source Hacker News: An entirely free, open-source Hacker News app built using the latest and greatest in Android dev.
  • ETTrace: Easily and accurately profile iOS apps. Locally measure performance of your app, without Xcode or Instruments.
  • Pow: Delightful SwiftUI effects for your app.
  • ETSymbolication: Generate symbols for frameworks like SwiftUI to symbolicate crash reports.
  • SmallStrings: Reduce localized .strings file sizes by 80%.
  • SnapshotPreviews: An all-in-one iOS snapshot testing solution.
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Ask your company to join the pledge too! And remember, Size Analysis is free for non-commercial open-source projects. Submit your repo for instructions on how to get set up.

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