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Morganamilo/paru

Feature packed AUR helper

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#arch #archlinux #aur-helper #hacktoberfest #pacman #paru

Updated: 2026-01-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-02
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 205 open

9,002

stars

Forks: 326
Commits: 1,303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ducaale/xh

Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#api-testing #cli #developer-tools #http-client #rust #terminal

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-09-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

8,098

stars

Forks: 147
Commits: 1,861 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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youki-dev/youki

A container runtime written in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #kubernetes #oci #rust

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-27
History: 26 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 163 open

7,631

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Forks: 477
Commits: 6,032 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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chmln/sd

Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #regex #rust #terminal #text-processing

Updated: 2026-02-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-12-23
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 79 open

7,363

stars

Forks: 172
Commits: 336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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skim-rs/skim

Fuzzy Finder in rust!

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#fuzzyfinder #rust #skim

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-05-29
History: 30 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

6,986

stars

Forks: 262
Commits: 1,758 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ogham/dog

A command-line DNS client.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#client #command-line #dns #rust

Updated: 2024-05-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-25
History: 5 history points
License: EUPL-1.2
Issues: 78 open

6,692

stars

Forks: 213
Commits: 201 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tealdeer-rs/tealdeer

A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #rust #tldr

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-29
History: 24 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 17 open

6,583

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Forks: 163
Commits: 600 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Byron/dua-cli

View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cleaner #disk #disk-space #disk-space-analyzer #disk-usage #disk-usage-analyzer

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-05-29
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

6,295

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 1,299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dalance/procs

A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #process #rust

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

6,180

stars

Forks: 156
Commits: 2,315 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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LaurentMazare/tch-rs

Rust bindings for the C++ api of PyTorch.

Stack

Rust Cargo CMake PEP 517

GitHub topics

#deep-learning #machine-learning #neural-network #pytorch #rust

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-02-16
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 248 open

5,498

stars

Forks: 457
Commits: 960 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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coreutils/coreutils

Public mirror. Pull requests and Issues accepted

Stack

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1992-10-31
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

5,309

stars

Forks: 1,081
Commits: 31,789 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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libreddit/libreddit

Private front-end for Reddit

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#docker #front-end #privacy #reddit #rust #security

Updated: 2025-02-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-10-25
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 196 open

5,200

stars

Forks: 254
Commits: 958 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

malisper/pgrust

Postgres rewritten in Rust, now faster than Postgres and Clickhouse

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#ai-assisted-development #database #postgres #postgresql #rust

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-06-12
History: 3 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 26 open

4,937

stars

Forks: 187
Commits: 5 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

anordal/shellharden

The corrective bash syntax highlighter

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#lint #policy #syntax-highlighter

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-26
History: 5 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 10 open

4,806

stars

Forks: 133
Commits: 312 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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facebookarchive/codemod

Codemod is a tool/library to assist you with large-scale codebase refactors that can be partially automated but still require human oversight and occasional intervention. Codemod was developed at Facebook and released as open source.

Archived

Stack

Python pytest pip

Updated: 2020-11-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-12-17
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 25 open

4,133

stars

Forks: 195
Commits: 118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jmacdonald/amp

A complete text editor for your terminal.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#rust #terminal #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-02-01
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 95 open

4,130

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 1,297 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dprint/dprint

Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform that unifies all your formatters.

Stack

Rust React Vite Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#formatter

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-06-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 68 open

4,079

stars

Forks: 118
Commits: 1,363 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

PyCQA/flake8

flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#complexity-analysis #flake8 #linter #linter-flake8 #pep8 #python

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-08-12
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 23 open

3,824

stars

Forks: 362
Commits: 2,531 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

apache/lucene

Apache Lucene open-source search software

Stack

Java Gradle PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#backend #information-retrieval #java #lucene #nosql #search

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-09-11
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2,669 open

3,579

stars

Forks: 1,439
Commits: 39,642 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bvaisvil/zenith

Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cpu #disk #linux #macos #process-monitor #terminal-application

Updated: 2026-09-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 40 open

3,053

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 571 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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coreboot/coreboot

Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. Synced every hour. We don't handle Pull Requests.

AI dev

Stack

C Go modules Meson pip

GitHub topics

#bios #c #coreboot #firmware

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,797

stars

Forks: 659
Commits: 65,175 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rslint/rslint

A (WIP) Extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript linter and Rust crate

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#javascript #javascript-linter #linter #parallel #parser #rust

Updated: 2023-03-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 41 open

2,730

stars

Forks: 78
Commits: 423 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

thestinger/termite

Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

Archived

Stack

C++

Updated: 2021-05-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-22
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

2,705

stars

Forks: 239
Commits: 844 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fcsonline/drill

Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust

Stack

Rust Express Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#http #jmeter #performance #performance-testing #rust #tester

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-18
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 39 open

2,311

stars

Forks: 117
Commits: 324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

theryangeary/choose

A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut (and sometimes awk)

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-06-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-02
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 5 open

2,282

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 164 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

cjbassi/ytop

A TUI system monitor written in Rust

Archived

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2020-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

2,161

stars

Forks: 86
Commits: 230 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ms-jpq/sad

CLI search and replace | Space Age seD

Stack

Rust Cargo pip

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #diff #editing #fzf #rust

Updated: 2026-05-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

2,044

stars

Forks: 27
Commits: 2,089 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

facebookincubator/fastmod

A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool. Assists with large-scale codebase refactors via regex-based find and replace with human oversight and occasional intervention.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #command-line-tool #find-and-replace #replace #rust

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-18
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 16 open

1,929

stars

Forks: 55
Commits: 79 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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oreboot/oreboot

oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bootloader #firmware #hacktoberfest #linux #oreboot #os

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2003-04-15
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 64 open

1,801

stars

Forks: 113
Commits: 29,214 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nivekuil/rip

A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#trash

Updated: 2024-04-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-08-31
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 26 open

1,738

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 218 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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