A new 2022 year is already there but we are discussing GitHub Rising Starts December 2021 edition. Let’s go!

Java

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ja-netfilter

Total stars: 2768

Last month stars: 2107

Growth: 76%

https://github.com/ja-netfilter/ja-netfilter

About the project: a javaagent framework.

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Lithium (for Fabric)

Total stars: 1294

Last month stars: 199

Growth: 15%

https://github.com/CaffeineMC/lithium-fabric

About the project: Lithium is a free and open-source Minecraft mod that works to optimize many areas of the game in order to provide better overall performance.

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NekoX

Total stars: 1478

Last month stars: 227

Growth: 15%

https://github.com/NekoX-Dev/NekoX

About the project: NekoX is a free and open-source third-party Telegram client, based on Telegram-FOSS with features added.

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SmartTubeNext (STN)

Total stars: 3872

Last month stars: 522

Growth: 13%

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext

About the project: SmartTubeNext is an advanced YouTube app for Android TVs and TV boxes, free & open source.

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Paper

Total stars: 5442

Last month stars: 549

Growth: 10%

https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper

About the project: high-performance Spigot fork that aims to fix gameplay and mechanics inconsistencies.

Rust

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snarkOS

Total stars: 825

Last month stars: 252

Growth: 31%

https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS

About the project: a Decentralized Operating Sysa decentralized operating system for private (zero-knowledge) applications. It forms the backbone of Aleo and enables applications to verify and store the state in a publicly verifiable manner.

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Polars

Total stars: 4062

Last month stars: 821

Growth: 20%

https://github.com/pola-rs/polars

About the project: fast multi-threaded DataFrame library in Rust | Python | Node.js.

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Databend

Total stars: 3012

Last month stars: 429

Growth: 14%

https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend

About the project: an elastic and reliable Serverless Data Warehouse, offers Blazing Fast Query and combines Elasticity, Simplicity, Low cost of the Cloud, built to make the Data Cloud easy.

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Wez’s Terminal

Total stars: 3019

Last month stars: 425

Growth: 14%

https://github.com/wez/wezterm

About the project: a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust.

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wgpu

Total stars: 3508

Last month stars: 387

Growth: 11%

https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu

About the project: safe and portable GPU abstraction in Rust, implementing WebGPU API.

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Helix

Total stars: 5118

Last month stars: 563

Growth: 11%

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

About the project: a post-modern modal text editor.

Obversvations

• Minecraft mods are quite popular on Github, the same we can say about the Telegram clients.
• Databend project looks pretty interesting and promising for further review.
• WebGPU itself and wgpu project, in particular, are extremely worth experimenting with them.
• Helix and Wez terminal are tools I’m going to install and test on my local soon.
• Surprise, but there are no block-chain related projects at the top of rising starts for December 2021.

_{Title image by jcx516 from Pixabay.}