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sharkdp/hyperfine

A command-line benchmarking tool

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#benchmark #cli #command-line #rust #terminal #tool

Updated: 2026-04-30
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-01-13
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 101 open

28,918

stars

Forks: 511
Commits: 1,018 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-10-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-29
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 122 open

27,639

stars

Forks: 5,210
Commits: 11,063 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-13
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 248 open

27,085

stars

Forks: 650
Commits: 738 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Wilfred/difftastic

a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#diff #tree-sitter

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-30
History: 47 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 282 open

26,023

stars

Forks: 526
Commits: 15,971 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 213 open

24,443

stars

Forks: 652
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: 2026-09-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,163 open

24,176

stars

Forks: 2,053
Commits: 21,030 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-07
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 26 open

23,559

stars

Forks: 1,125
Commits: 1,347 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: 8 history points
License: EUPL-1.2
Issues: 454 open

23,318

stars

Forks: 525
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: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-05-15
History: 13 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 895 open

22,641

stars

Forks: 12,036
Commits: 9,240 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +9 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +9 +0.1%

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: 2026-10-06
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-15
History: 32 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 347 open

22,553

stars

Forks: 782
Commits: 2,633 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

22,427

stars

Forks: 5,960
Commits: 65,672 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

RustPython/RustPython

A Python Interpreter written in Rust

AI dev

Stack

Rust Express pytest Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-05-28
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 308 open

22,392

stars

Forks: 1,501
Commits: 17,612 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 131 open

20,574

stars

Forks: 972
Commits: 2,005 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: 2026-10-09
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-01-28
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 50 open

18,255

stars

Forks: 1,005
Commits: 2,654 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-09-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-20
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 111 open

17,636

stars

Forks: 568
Commits: 1,096 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

16,736

stars

Forks: 1,429
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: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lsd-rs/lsd

The next gen ls command

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-12
History: 11 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 210 open

16,240

stars

Forks: 513
Commits: 1,119 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: 2026-09-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-26
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

14,943

stars

Forks: 706
Commits: 1,119 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: 2026-09-25
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-02-14
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 124 open

14,612

stars

Forks: 968
Commits: 5,846 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: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-28
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 106 open

14,053

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 2,650 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: 2026-09-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-09-05
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 212 open

13,760

stars

Forks: 423
Commits: 2,457 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: 2026-10-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-19
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 213 open

13,484

stars

Forks: 2,341
Commits: 8,278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 343 open

13,067

stars

Forks: 333
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

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#balanced-bfs-descent #command-line #command-line-tool #fuzzy-search #rust #tree

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-15
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 100 open

12,961

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 2,117 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: 2026-09-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-12
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 10 open

12,325

stars

Forks: 294
Commits: 633 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: 2026-10-08
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2021-04-13
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 828 open

11,703

stars

Forks: 609
Commits: 3,876 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: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 40 open

10,292

stars

Forks: 275
Commits: 490 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1998-09-03
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 984 open

9,545

stars

Forks: 2,293
Commits: 18,556 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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