Welcome to Java and Rust GitHub trends for April 2022. Let’s get started.

Java

Kestra

Total stars: 2426

Last month stars: 1253

Growth: 52%

https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra

About the project: Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines.

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ja-netfilter

Total stars: 6603

Last month stars: 985

Growth: 15%

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

About the project: a javaagent framework.

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Airbyte

Total stars: 6579

Last month stars: 396

Growth: 7%

https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte

About the project: Airbyte is an open-source EL(T) platform that helps you replicate your data in your warehouses, lakes and databases.

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Termux

Total stars: 12499

Last month stars: 651

Growth: 5%

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

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

Rust

Foundry

Total stars: 634

Last month stars: 523

Growth: 82%

https://github.com/foundry-rs/foundry

About the project: Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.

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Aptos-core

Total stars: 1192

Last month stars: 865

Growth: 73%

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

About the project: Aptos-core strives towards being the safest and most scalable layer one blockchain solution. Today, this powers the Aptos Devnet, tomorrow Mainnet in order to create universal and fair access to decentralized assets for billions of people

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Helix

Total stars: 8669

Last month stars: 1942

Growth: 22%

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

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

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Weylus

Total stars: 3117

Last month stars: 636

Growth: 20%

https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

About the project: use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

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Wez’s Terminal

Total stars: 4233

Last month stars: 424

Growth: 10%

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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axum

Total stars: 4595

Last month stars: 456

Growth: 10%

https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum

About the project: axum is a web application framework that focuses on ergonomics and modularity (built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper).

Observations

• Kestra looks interesting from the product side and is definitely worth trying. A plugin-based extension model looks promising for product evolution.
• The Android applications are still present in Java reports.
• Such Rust projects as Foundry and Aptos showed dramatic growth in April proving one more time that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies are the hot topics in the Rust world.
• System utilities are one of the largest categories for the Rust projects on GitHub.
• axum looks pretty interesting and popular web application development framework in the Rust world with already 4595 stars on Github. For example, in the Java world, Quarkus has 9955 stars and Micronaut (core) has 5337 stars.

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