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wezterm/wezterm

A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo Meson

GitHub topics

#rust #serial #serial-port #terminal #terminal-emulator #terminal-emulators

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-07
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,811 open

28,389

stars

Forks: 1,678
Commits: 8,660 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eslint/eslint

Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#ecmascript #eslint #javascript #linter #static-code-analysis

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

27,456

stars

Forks: 5,164
Commits: 10,974 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Schniz/fnm

🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust

AI dev

Stack

Rust React Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #javascript #nodejs #nvm #reasonml #version

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-13
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 239 open

26,546

stars

Forks: 640
Commits: 738 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Wilfred/difftastic

a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩

Stack

Rust Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#diff #tree-sitter

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-30
History: 44 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 288 open

25,753

stars

Forks: 502
Commits: 15,887 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ogham/exa

A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#command-line #files #ls #rust

Updated: 2024-09-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-03
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 213 open

24,439

stars

Forks: 655
Commits: 1,618 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

uutils/coreutils

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#busybox #command-line-tool #coreutils #cross-platform #gnu-coreutils #rust

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-02
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,170 open

23,921

stars

Forks: 1,992
Commits: 20,256 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AlDanial/cloc

cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.

Stack

Perl CMake .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#cloc #count-lines #programming-language

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-07
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 25 open

23,427

stars

Forks: 1,120
Commits: 1,337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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eza-community/eza

A modern alternative to ls

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#color #command-line #files #hacktoberfest #icons #ls

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-05-03
History: 7 history points
License: EUPL-1.2
Issues: 415 open

22,880

stars

Forks: 490
Commits: 3,372 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/rocketmq

Apache RocketMQ is a cloud native messaging and streaming platform, making it simple to build event-driven applications.

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #eventing #hacktoberfest #java #messaging #rocketmq

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-15
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 586 open

22,573

stars

Forks: 11,996
Commits: 9,189 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gitui-org/gitui

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#async #bash #command-line-interface #command-line-tool #git #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-15
History: 31 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 343 open

22,438

stars

Forks: 767
Commits: 2,630 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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RustPython/RustPython

A Python Interpreter written in Rust

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Stack

Rust Express pytest Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#compiler #hacktoberfest #interpreter #jit #language #python-language

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-05-28
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 398 open

22,310

stars

Forks: 1,476
Commits: 17,216 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

postgres/postgres

Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch

Stack

C Meson

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

22,031

stars

Forks: 5,898
Commits: 65,283 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

spaceship-prompt/spaceship-prompt

🚀✨ Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt

Stack

Shell npm pip

GitHub topics

#oh-my-zsh #prompt #shell #shell-prompt #shell-theme #spaceship

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-30
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 128 open

20,557

stars

Forks: 971
Commits: 2,003 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mjmlio/mjml

MJML: the only framework that makes responsive email easy

Stack

JavaScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#email #email-boilerplate #email-campaigns #mjml #responsive #responsive-email

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-01-28
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 68 open

18,195

stars

Forks: 996
Commits: 2,636 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

denisidoro/navi

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bash #cheatsheets #cli #command-line #rust #shell

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-20
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 108 open

17,417

stars

Forks: 555
Commits: 1,092 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rbenv/rbenv

Manage your app's Ruby environment

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#bash #ruby #ruby-installation #ruby-versions #shell

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-08-01
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

16,731

stars

Forks: 1,430
Commits: 855 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

official-stockfish/Stockfish

A free and strong UCI chess engine

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#chess #chess-engine #cpp #stockfish #uci

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-01
History: 41 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 58 open

16,601

stars

Forks: 3,011
Commits: 7,264 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

lsd-rs/lsd

The next gen ls command

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#color #hacktoberfest #icons #ls #nerd-fonts #rust

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-12
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 203 open

16,167

stars

Forks: 509
Commits: 1,117 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

quickwit-oss/tantivy

Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#rust #search-engine

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-01-10
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 448 open

16,057

stars

Forks: 985
Commits: 3,723 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

XAMPPRocky/tokei

Count your code, quickly.

Stack

Rust Cargo .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#badge #cli #cloc #code #command-line-tool #linux

Updated: 2026-05-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-26
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

14,792

stars

Forks: 698
Commits: 1,115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

LemmyNet/lemmy

🐀 A decentralised discussion platform for communities.

Stack

Rust Actix Web Express Cargo pnpm

GitHub topics

#activitypub #chat #fediverse #lemmy #link-aggregator #reddit

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-02-14
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 120 open

14,548

stars

Forks: 966
Commits: 5,829 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ClementTsang/bottom

Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

Stack

Rust Cargo pip

GitHub topics

#bottom #btm #cli #cross-platform #monitoring #rust

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-28
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 108 open

13,871

stars

Forks: 371
Commits: 2,594 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Jguer/yay

Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#archlinux #aur #aur-completions #aur-helper #aur-packages #pacaur

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-09-05
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 205 open

13,679

stars

Forks: 419
Commits: 2,455 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

opencontainers/runc

CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #oci

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-19
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 343 open

13,401

stars

Forks: 2,320
Commits: 8,134 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

volta-cli/volta

Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡

Stack

Rust Express Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#node #nodejs #package-manager

Updated: 2025-11-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-25
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 341 open

13,057

stars

Forks: 336
Commits: 3,168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Canop/broot

A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#balanced-bfs-descent #command-line #command-line-tool #fuzzy-search #hacktoberfest #linux

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-15
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 247 open

12,889

stars

Forks: 308
Commits: 2,021 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bootandy/dust

A more intuitive version of du in rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-12
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

12,113

stars

Forks: 279
Commits: 600 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

quickwit-oss/quickwit

Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum React Vite Warp Cargo pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#big-data #cloud-native #cloud-storage #distributed-tracing #log-management #logs

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2021-04-13
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 803 open

11,537

stars

Forks: 581
Commits: 3,801 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sharkdp/hexyl

A command-line hex viewer

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#binary-data #command-line #hexadecimal #rust #tool

Updated: 2026-04-30
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-05
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 34 open

10,263

stars

Forks: 268
Commits: 490 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

apache/jmeter

Apache JMeter open-source load testing tool for analyzing and measuring the performance of a variety of services

AI dev

Stack

Java Gradle npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#java #performance #test

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1998-09-03
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 963 open

9,505

stars

Forks: 2,287
Commits: 18,550 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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