Welcome to Java and Rust GitHub trends September 2022 edition. Let’s get started!

Java

StreamPark

Total stars: 2509

Last month stars: 537

Growth: 21%

https://github.com/apache/incubator-streampark

About the project: easy-to-use streaming application development framework and operation platform.

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Eaglercraft

Total stars: 810

Last month stars: 106

Growth: 13%

https://github.com/lax1dude/eaglercraft

About the project: Eaglercraft is real Minecraft 1.5.2 that you can play in any regular web browser.

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xManager

Total stars: 2762

Last month stars: 323

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/xManager-v2/xManager-Spotify

About the project: an Android application where you can manage and install all versions of the Spotify app.

Rust

SurrealDB

Total stars: 12918

Last month stars: 9157

Growth: 71%

https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb

About the project: SurrealDB is an end-to-end cloud native database for web, mobile, serverless, jamstack, backend, and traditional applications. SurrealDB reduces the development time of modern applications by simplifying your database and API stack, removing the need for most server-side components, allowing you to build secure, performant apps quicker and cheaper. SurrealDB acts as both a database and a modern, realtime, collaborative API backend layer. 

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CYFS

Total stars: 980

Last month stars: 489

Growth: 50%

https://github.com/buckyos/CYFS

About the project: CYFS is the next-generation technology to build real Web3 by upgrading the basic protocol of Web (TCP/IP+DNS+HTTP). It has a subversive architectural design that everyone brings their own OOD (Owner Online Device) to form a truly decentralized network. 

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Lapce

Total stars: 18637

Last month stars: 4765

Growth: 26%

https://github.com/lapce/lapce

About the project: lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust. Lapce (IPA: /læps/) is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.

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Ockam

Total stars: 2493

Last month stars: 520

Growth: 21%

https://github.com/build-trust/ockam

About the project: Ockam is a suite of open source tools, programming libraries, and managed cloud services to orchestrate end-to-end encryption, mutual authentication, key management, credential management, and authorization policy enforcement – at massive scale.

Observations

• The “StreamPark” project from the Java category as an Apache Incubating project demonstrates good growth in September. It’s a single leader in the Java category in that month.
• The “SurrealDB” project from the Rust category showed tremendous growth in September with more than 70% of starts added during this month with a total number of stars of more than 12k.
• The Web3 fans will be definitely interested to look into the “CYFS” project from the Rust category.
• Bored with your code editor it is a good time to try the “Lapce” project from the Rust category.

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Welcome to Java and Rust GitHub trends August 2022 edition. Let’s go!

Java

Eaglercraft

Total stars: 59

Last month stars: 706

Growth: 8%

https://github.com/lax1dude/eaglercraft

About the project: Eaglercraft is real Minecraft 1.5.2 that you can play in any regular web browser.

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Termux

Total stars: 1034

Last month stars: 15296

Growth: 7%

https://github.com/termux/termux-app

About the project: Termux – a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages.

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DataHub

Total stars: 420

Last month stars: 6278

Growth: 7%

https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub

About the project: DataHub is an open-source metadata platform for the modern data stack. 

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DSA-Bootcamp-Java

Total stars: 571

Last month stars: 8613

Growth: 7%

https://github.com/kunal-kushwaha/DSA-Bootcamp-Java

About the project: this repository consists of the code samples, assignments, and notes for the Java Data Structures & Algorithms bootcamp of Community Classroom.

Rust

Starcoin

Total stars: 610

Last month stars: 1088

Growth: 56%

https://github.com/starcoinorg/starcoin

About the project: Starcoin – a smart contract blockchain network that scales by layering.

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The Move Language

Total stars: 315

Last month stars: 869

Growth: 36%

https://github.com/move-language/move

About the project: Move is a programming language for writing safe smart contracts originally developed at Facebook to power the Diem blockchain.

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Sui

Total stars: 378

Last month stars: 1543

Growth: 24%

https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui

About the project: Sui is a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language.

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Aptos-core

Total stars: 798

Last month stars: 3655

Growth: 22%

https://github.com/aptos-labs/aptos-core

About the project: Aptos-core strives towards being the safest and most scalable layer one blockchain solution.

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The Algorithms – Rust

Total stars: 1745

Last month stars: 10761

Growth: 16%

https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Rust

About the project: all algorithms implemented in Rust.

Observations

• There are no strong leaders in the Java category in the August report.
• DataHub from the Java category seems very promising and has already been adopted by companies like Expedia Group, LinkedIn, Peloton, ThoughtWorks, and others.
• If you want to learn data structures and algorithms in Java the “DSA-Bootcamp-Java” project from the Java category might be interesting for you. There is also “The Algorithms – Rust” project from the Rust category for Rust fans.
• Blockchain, smart contracts it is all about Rust.

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Welcome to Java and Rust GitHub trends July 2022 edition. This edition like a previous one is a month delayed but I’m going to catch up this week and share the August edition as well. Let’s get started.

Java

VulkanMod

Total stars: 501

Last month stars: 155

Growth: 31%

https://github.com/xCollateral/VulkanMod

About the project: Vulkan renderer mod for Minecraft.

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Create

Total stars: 1467

Last month stars: 305

Growth: 21%

https://github.com/Creators-of-Create/Create

About the project: Create is a mod for Minecraft offering a variety of tools and blocks for Building, Decoration, and Aesthetic Automation.

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ReVanced Integrations

Total stars: 258

Last month stars: 51

Growth: 20%

https://github.com/revanced/revanced-integrations

About the project: Integrations containing helper classes for ReVanced. Originally maintained by Vanced.

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StreamX

Total stars: 1908

Last month stars: 241

Growth: 13%

https://github.com/streamxhub/streampark

About the project: extremely fast stream processing development framework, supported unified batch & streaming and data lake & data warehouse cloud-native bigdata platform, one-stop real-time computing cloud-native platform.

Rust

The Move Language

Total stars: 560

Last month stars: 388

Growth: 69%

https://github.com/move-language/move

About the project: Move is a programming language for writing safe smart contracts originally developed at Facebook to power the Diem blockchain. Move is designed to be a platform-agnostic language to enable common libraries, tooling, and developer communities across diverse blockchains with vastly different data and execution models. 

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Sui

Total stars: 1194

Last month stars: 803

Growth: 67%

https://github.com/MystenLabs/sui

About the project: Sui is a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language.

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Open-Source OS Training Comp 2022

Total stars: 977

Last month stars: 553

Growth: 57%

https://github.com/LearningOS/rust-based-os-comp2022

About the project: This tutorial shows how to write a Unix-like kernel based on the RISC-V architecture in Rust from scratch.

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Replibyte

Total stars: 2998

Last month stars: 1380

Growth: 46%

https://github.com/Qovery/Replibyte

About the project: Replibyte is a blazingly fast tool to seed your databases with your production data while keeping sensitive data safe.

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Learning Rust By Practice

Total stars: 5796

Last month stars: 2189

Growth: 38%

https://github.com/sunface/rust-by-practice

About the project: Learning Rust By Practice, narrowing the gap between beginner and skilled-dev with challenging examples, exercises and projects.

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RustDesk Server Program

Total stars: 1850

Last month stars: 496

Growth: 27%

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server

About the project: RustDesk Server Program.

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Aptos-core

Total stars: 2937

Last month stars: 575

Growth: 20%

https://github.com/aptos-labs/aptos-core

About the project: Aptos-core strives towards being the safest and most scalable layer one blockchain solution. 

Observations

• Minecraft modes are leading in the Java category.
• Blockchain and smart contracts it is all about Rust.
• Want to learn Rust or already learning, take a look at ‘Learning Rust By Practice’ project there should be interesting tasks for you.

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