A new 2022 year is already there but we are discussing GitHub Rising Starts December 2021 edition. Let’s go!
Java
ja-netfilter
Total stars: 2768 | Last month stars: 2107 | Growth: 76% |
https://github.com/ja-netfilter/ja-netfilter
About the project: a javaagent framework.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.