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krahets/hello-algo

《Hello 算法》：动画图解、一键运行的数据结构与算法教程。支持简中、繁中、English、日本語，提供 Python, Java, C++, C, C#, JS, Go, Swift, Rust, Ruby, Kotlin, TS, Dart 等代码实现

Stack

Java Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#algo #algorithm #algorithms #book #data-structure #data-structures

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-11-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 41 open

130,574

stars

Forks: 15,510
Commits: 2,168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

oven-sh/bun

Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

AI dev

Stack

Rust Astro Express Fastify NestJS Bun Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#bun #bundler #javascript #javascriptcore #jsx #nodejs

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-17
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 9,593 open

96,100

stars

Forks: 5,082
Commits: 18,326 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ocornut/imgui

Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#api #cplusplus #framework #game-development #game-engine #gamedev

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,229 open

76,165

stars

Forks: 12,030
Commits: 10,086 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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karpathy/nanoGPT

The simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs.

Stack

Python

Updated: 2025-11-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-12-28
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 349 open

63,456

stars

Forks: 10,919
Commits: 210 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ghostty-org/ghostty

👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

AI dev

Stack

Zig CMake Swift Package Manager

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-03-29
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 257 open

61,836

stars

Forks: 3,565
Commits: 18,075 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lightpanda-io/browser

Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation

AI dev

Stack

Zig Cargo

GitHub topics

#browser #browser-automation #cdp #headless #lightpanda #playwright

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-02-07
History: 139 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 91 open

36,600

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Forks: 1,754
Commits: 10,704 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +369 +1.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +273 +2.6%

Website GitHub

raysan5/raylib

A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#android #c #embedded #esp32 #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-24
History: 6 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 13 open

34,972

stars

Forks: 3,323
Commits: 10,231 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

asdf-vm/asdf

Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

Stack

Go Vite Vue Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#asdf-vm #bash #cli #elixir #elvish #erlang

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 147 open

25,595

stars

Forks: 944
Commits: 2,124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle

The financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.

Stack

Zig Bundler Cargo .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-04-09
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 119 open

17,131

stars

Forks: 913
Commits: 12,779 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ggml-org/ggml

Tensor library for machine learning

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#machine-learning

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-09-18
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 364 open

15,429

stars

Forks: 1,847
Commits: 4,731 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

anomalyco/opentui

OpenTUI is a library to build terminal user interfaces (TUI)

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Astro React Bun npm

GitHub topics

#opencode #opentui #tui

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-07-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 152 open

13,428

stars

Forks: 753
Commits: 1,166 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

microsoft/mimalloc

mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK vcpkg

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 292 open

13,428

stars

Forks: 1,188
Commits: 4,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nullclaw/nullclaw

Fastest, smallest, and fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure written in Zig

AI dev

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#ai #assistant #personal #zig

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2026-02-17
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 67 open

8,103

stars

Forks: 946
Commits: 2,758 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

memononen/nanovg

Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.

Stack

Updated: 2026-02-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-12
History: 6 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 320 open

5,707

stars

Forks: 808
Commits: 418 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zigtools/zls

A language server for Zig supporting developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#language-server #lsp #lsp-server #zig #zls

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-24
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 172 open

5,212

stars

Forks: 453
Commits: 3,691 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

NilsIrl/dockerc

container image to single executable compiler

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#containers #docker #oci #oci-image

Updated: 2025-01-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-02-18
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 25 open

4,918

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 52 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hexops/mach

zig game engine & graphics toolkit - mirror of https://code.hexops.com/hexops/mach

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#composable #cross-platform #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #graphics

Updated: 2026-05-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

4,846

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 4,009 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

zml/zml

Any model. Any hardware. Zero compromise. Built with @ziglang / @openxla / MLIR / @bazelbuild

AI dev

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#ai #bazel #hpc #inference #xla #zig

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-09-17
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 71 open

4,136

stars

Forks: 190
Commits: 961 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ethereum/consensus-specs

Ethereum Consensus Specifications

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 uv

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-20
History: 6 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 64 open

3,966

stars

Forks: 1,313
Commits: 11,588 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

chronotope/chrono

Date and time library for Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#calendar #date #rust #time

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-03-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 193 open

3,915

stars

Forks: 616
Commits: 1,784 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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PixelGuys/Cubyz

Voxel sandbox game with a large render distance, procedurally generated content and some cool graphical effects.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#3d-game #cubyz #game #procedural-generation #sandbox #sandbox-game

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-08-23
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 927 open

3,687

stars

Forks: 248
Commits: 2,171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mitchellh/libxev

libxev is a cross-platform, high-performance event loop that provides abstractions for non-blocking IO, timers, events, and more and works on Linux (io_uring or epoll), macOS (kqueue), and Wasm + WASI. Available as both a Zig and C API.

Stack

Zig Next.js React npm

GitHub topics

#async #c #epoll #io-uring #kqueue #wasi

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-05
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 68 open

3,586

stars

Forks: 192
Commits: 591 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zigzap/zap

blazingly fast backends in zig

Archived

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#api #blazingly #fast #http #rest #zig

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-11
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

3,416

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 793 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dmtrKovalenko/odiff

A very fast SIMD-first image comparison library (with nodejs API)

Stack

Zig npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#diff #hacktoberfest #image-comparison #odiff #pixel-perfect #snapshot

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-11-04
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

3,225

stars

Forks: 115
Commits: 323 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zig-gamedev/zig-gamedev

Dev repo for @zig-gamedev libs and sample applications

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #d3d12 #demos #directx12 #game-development #gamedev

Updated: 2026-03-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

2,869

stars

Forks: 190
Commits: 4,878 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

capy-ui/capy

💻Build one codebase and get native UI on Windows, Linux and Web

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #cross-platform-gui #gui #gui-library #linux #ui

Updated: 2025-12-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-04
History: 6 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 25 open

2,702

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 658 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

neurocyte/flow

Flow Control: a programmer's text editor

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#language-server-client #language-server-protocol #text-editor #tree-sitter #tui #zig

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-02-25
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 80 open

2,453

stars

Forks: 121
Commits: 4,255 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig

MicroZig is a toolbox for building embedded applications in Zig.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#embedded #hal #zig #zig-package #ziglang

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-10
History: 6 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 87 open

2,287

stars

Forks: 198
Commits: 1,344 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

neurosnap/zmx

Session attach/detach for the terminal

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#ghostty #session-persistence #tmux #zig

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-10-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

2,185

stars

Forks: 164
Commits: 485 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sleep3r/mtproto.zig

Keep the people you love connected — a tiny self-hosted Telegram proxy that hides in plain HTTPS

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#amnezia-vpn #anti-censorship #dpi #dpi-bypass #mtproto #mtproto-proxy

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-03-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

2,124

stars

Forks: 103
Commits: 327 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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