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yamafaktory/jql

A JSON Query Language CLI tool

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cargo #cli #devops-tools #json #rust #rustlang

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-02
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

1,683

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 599 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

redox-os/ion

Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/ion

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-10-07
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

1,655

stars

Forks: 141
Commits: 2,217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

denoland/deno_lint

Blazing fast linter for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#deno #javascript #linters #typescript

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-27
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 166 open

1,583

stars

Forks: 187
Commits: 1,023 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mxsm/rocketmq-rust

🚀 Apache RocketMQ built in Rust 🦀 — faster, safer, and more memory-efficient. Powering high-performance messaging for the AI era, with AI Agent, MCP, and AI-SRE capabilities.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum React Tailwind CSS Tauri Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#ai-sre #cloud-native #mcp #mcp-server #mcp-tools #messaging

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-13
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 33 open

1,524

stars

Forks: 279
Commits: 5,970 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

orhun/systeroid

A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface 🐧

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #kernel-parameters #linux #linux-kernel #linux-tools #procfs

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-09-24
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 17 open

1,470

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 665 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ezrosent/frawk

an efficient awk-like language

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2025-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-23
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 35 open

1,316

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 687 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lasantosr/intelli-shell

Like IntelliSense, but for shells

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#autocomplete #bash #bookmark #cli #command-line #fish

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-01-20
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 6 open

1,289

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 159 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

willdoescode/nat

`ls` alternative with useful info and a splash of color 🎨

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cargo #cli #command-line-tool #easy-to-use #hacktoberfest #ls

Updated: 2021-05-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-22
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,265

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 233 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MidnightCommander/mc

Midnight Commander's repository

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #console #file-manager #midnight-commander #terminal-based

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 1997-01-01
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 701 open

993

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 17,006 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tarka/xcp

An extended `cp`

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#command-line #copy-files #linux #solid-state-disks #sparse-files

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-04
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 18 open

930

stars

Forks: 33
Commits: 803 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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oppiliappan/eva

a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#calculator #cli #hacktoberfest #rust

Updated: 2025-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-24
History: 24 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

917

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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sstadick/hck

A sharp cut(1) clone.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#command-line #rust #text-processing

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-06-23
History: 5 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 7 open

744

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 223 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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TaKO8Ki/frum

A little bit fast and modern Ruby version manager written in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#farm #rbenv #ruby #rust #version-manager

Updated: 2022-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

655

stars

Forks: 14
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ismaelgv/rnr

A command-line tool to batch rename files and directories

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#rename-files #rust

Updated: 2026-03-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-11
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

597

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lotabout/rargs

xargs + awk with pattern matching support. `ls *.bak | rargs -p '(.*)\.bak' mv {0} {1}`

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2023-07-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

572

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 51 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jdrouet/mrml

Implementation of mjml in rust

Stack

HTML Axum React Vite Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#email #hacktoberfest #mjml #rust

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

507

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 1,107 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

pleco-rs/Pleco

A Rust-based re-write of the Stockfish Chess Engine

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#ai #board #bot #chess #chess-engine #crates

Updated: 2026-02-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-12
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 11 open

431

stars

Forks: 44
Commits: 683 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

unobserved-io/Furtherance

Track your time without being tracked

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-02-18
History: 25 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

394

stars

Forks: 31
Commits: 908 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

koraa/huniq

Filter out duplicates on the command line. Replacement for `sort | uniq` optimized for speed (10x faster) when sorting is not needed.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #rust #tools

Updated: 2024-01-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-12
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 10 open

265

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 63 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

probablykasper/cpc

Text calculator with support for units and conversion

Stack

Rust Svelte SvelteKit Tailwind CSS Vite Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#calculator #cli #conversion #converter #library #math

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-12-05
History: 3 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

161

stars

Forks: 14
Commits: 303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

getreu/stringsext

Find multi-byte-encoded strings in binary data (Gitlab mirror).

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#forensics #rust #string-search #unicode

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-26
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

133

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 208 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

toggl/toggldesktop

Toggl Desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux

Stack

JavaScript

Updated: 2020-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-07
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

126

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 594 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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