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gofiber/fiber

⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go

AI dev

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#express #expressjs #fast #fiber #flexible #framework

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-12-30
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

40,175

stars

Forks: 2,039
Commits: 7,133 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bazelbuild/bazel

a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

AI dev

Stack

Java Android Gradle Maven PEP 517

GitHub topics

#bazel #build #build-system #correct #fast #multi-language

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-25
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,977 open

25,952

stars

Forks: 4,646
Commits: 47,494 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pinojs/pino

🌲 super fast, all natural json logger

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#fast #json #logger #nodejs #pino

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-16
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 168 open

18,239

stars

Forks: 1,006
Commits: 2,012 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

LMCache/LMCache

LMCache: Supercharge Your LLM with the Fastest KV Cache Layer

AI dev

Stack

Python Cobra FastAPI gRPC Go pytest Cargo CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#amd #cuda #fast #inference #kv-cache #llm

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-05-29
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 695 open

11,732

stars

Forks: 1,870
Commits: 2,264 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

stenzek/duckstation

Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64/RV64

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#appimage #emulator #enhancements #fast #hardware-renderers #jit-compiler

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-09
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

10,841

stars

Forks: 975
Commits: 12,713 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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codesenberg/bombardier

Fast cross-platform HTTP benchmarking tool written in Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #bombardier #cli #fast #go #golang

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-05-29
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

6,841

stars

Forks: 332
Commits: 118 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

orientechnologies/orientdb

OrientDB is the most versatile DBMS supporting Graph, Document, Reactive, Full-Text and Geospatial models in one Multi-Model product. OrientDB can run distributed (Multi-Master), supports SQL, ACID Transactions, Full-Text indexing and Reactive Queries.

Stack

Java Angular Express Maven npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#database #dbms #document-database #fast #graph-database #graph-store

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-03-29
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 389 open

4,992

stars

Forks: 868
Commits: 27,234 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

FelixKratz/JankyBorders

A lightweight window border system for macOS

Stack

GitHub topics

#border #customization #fast #lightweight #macos #tiling-window-manager

Updated: 2026-05-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-11-02
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 74 open

3,815

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 194 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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NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser

Validate XML, Parse XML and Build XML rapidly without C/C++ based libraries and no callback.

Stack

JavaScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #fast #fast-xml-parser #js #js2xml

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-28
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

3,139

stars

Forks: 398
Commits: 1,065 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

griddb/griddb

GridDB is a next-generation open source database that makes time series IoT and big data fast,and easy.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Maven

GitHub topics

#bigdata #database #fast #griddb #iot #newsql

Updated: 2026-03-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-24
History: 147 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

2,474

stars

Forks: 4,961
Commits: 500 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

csstree/csstree

A tool set for CSS including fast detailed parser, walker, generator and lexer based on W3C specs and browser implementations

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#ast #css #css-parser #fast #generator #lexer

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-09-02
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

2,127

stars

Forks: 135
Commits: 1,250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

avo-hq/avo

The Essential Toolkit for building Internal Tools and admin panels with Ruby on Rails

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Tailwind CSS Bundler npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#admin #admin-dashboard #admin-panel #cms-framework #content-management-system #crm

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 156 open

1,806

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 3,724 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

neon-mmd/websurfx

:rocket: An open source alternative to searx which provides a modern-looking :sparkles:, lightning-fast :zap:, privacy respecting :disguised_face:, secure :lock: meta search engine

Stack

Rust Actix Web Cargo

GitHub topics

#actix-web #css #fast #foss #hacktoberfest #maud

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-22
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 18 open

1,218

stars

Forks: 129
Commits: 1,255 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pydata/bottleneck

Fast NumPy array functions written in C

Stack

Python pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#c #c-extension #fast #numpy #python

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-19
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 63 open

1,183

stars

Forks: 118
Commits: 1,478 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Code-Hex/pget

The fastest, resumable file download client

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#concurrency #download #downloader #fast #go #golang

Updated: 2023-10-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,173

stars

Forks: 82
Commits: 131 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

MystikoLab/rustcast

An open source alternative to raycast, in rust!! (retired)

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#alternative #app #application #blazing-fast #blazingly-fast #fast

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-10
History: 57 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,109

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 731 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +5 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

yfedoseev/pdf_oxide

The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0.

AI dev

Stack

Rust pytest Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#data-extraction #document-processing #fast #image-extraction #llm #markdown

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-11-05
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 298 open

1,068

stars

Forks: 133
Commits: 1,691 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ohler55/agoo

A High Performance HTTP Server for Ruby

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#benchmark #clustering #clusters #fast #graphql #graphql-server

Updated: 2026-05-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

934

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 322 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

RustCastLabs/rustcast

An open source alternative to raycast, in rust!!

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#alternative #app #application #blazing-fast #blazingly-fast #fast

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-10
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

859

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 672 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

WonderCMS/wondercms

Fast and small flat file CMS (5 files). Built with PHP, JSON database.

Stack

PHP

GitHub topics

#blog #cms #content-management #content-management-system #fast #file

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-15
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

737

stars

Forks: 167
Commits: 475 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RedTeamPentesting/monsoon

Fast HTTP enumerator

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#enumerator #fast #fuzz #fuzzer #go #http

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

500

stars

Forks: 39
Commits: 410 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

janlelis/paint

Ruby gem for ANSI terminal colors 🎨︎ VERY FAST

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#ansi #ansi-colors #escape-sequences #fast #rgb-colors #ruby

Updated: 2025-12-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-06-29
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

384

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 176 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

wjdp/htmltest

:white_check_mark: Test generated HTML for problems

Stack

HTML Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli-app #fast #golang #html-checker #html-linter #link-checker

Updated: 2025-01-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-19
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 80 open

378

stars

Forks: 59
Commits: 324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

raceychan/lihil

2X faster ASGI web framework for python, offering high-level development, low-level performance.

AI dev

Stack

Python FastAPI pytest Starlette pip uv

GitHub topics

#ai #api #asgi #asyncio #fast #framework

Updated: 2026-06-11
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-13
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

217

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 542 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gvb84/pbscan

Faster and more efficient stateless SYN scanner and banner grabber due to userland TCP/IP stack usage.

Stack

GitHub topics

#fast #libuinet #nmap #port-scanner #security-scanner #security-tools

Updated: 2018-02-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

172

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 10 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

crepe/crepe

🥞 The thin API stack.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #fast #lightweight #rack #ruby

Updated: 2017-12-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-22
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 7 open

128

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 411 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

efforthye/fast-filesystem-mcp

A high-performance Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides secure filesystem access for Claude and other AI assistants.

Stack

TypeScript Express pnpm

GitHub topics

#ai-assistant #ai-tools #anthropic #automation #backup #claude

Updated: 2026-05-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-08
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 13 open

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ttrotto/rusterize

Extremely fast rasterization tool built in 🦀 Rust for 🐍 Python & R

Stack

Rust Cargo PEP 517

GitHub topics

#fast #geometry #raster

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-06-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 428 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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