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.

_{Title image by Dušan Cvetanović from Pixabay}

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.

_{Title image by Jens from Pixabay}