Let’s review GitHub trending projects for Java and Rust programming languages in January 2022.

Java

SeaTunnel

Total stars: 3022

Last month stars: 720

Growth: 24%

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

About the project: SeaTunnel (formely Waterdrop) is a very easy-to-use ultra-high-performance distributed data integration platform that supports the real-time synchronization of massive data. It can synchronize tens of billions of data stably and efficiently every day, and has been used in the production of nearly 100 companies.

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DSA-Bootcamp-Java

Total stars: 6169

Last month stars: 897

Growth: 15%

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.

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AndroRAT

Total stars: 469

Last month stars: 58

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/karma9874/AndroRAT

About the project: AndroRAT is a tool designed to give control of the android system remotely and retrieve information from it. Androrat is a client/server application developed in Java Android for the client-side and the Server is in Python.

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LSPosed Framework

Total stars: 3463

Last month stars: 410

Growth: 12%

https://github.com/LSPosed/LSPosed

About the project: A Riru module trying to provide an ART hooking framework which delivers consistent APIs with the OG Xposed, leveraging YAHFA hooking framework.

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Signal Android

Total stars: 1923

Last month stars: 217

Growth: 11%

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

About the project: Signal is a messaging app for simple private communication with friends.

Rust

rathole

Total stars: 2439

Last month stars: 2378

Growth: 97%

https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

About the project: A lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust. An alternative to frp and ngrok.

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Dioxus

Total stars: 2405

Last month stars: 2213

Growth: 92%

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus

About the project: Elegant React-like library for building user interfaces for desktop, web, mobile, SSR, liveview, and more.

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foundry

Total stars: 1439

Last month stars: 517

Growth: 36%

https://github.com/gakonst/foundry

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

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Poem Framework

Total stars: 1090

Last month stars: 209

Growth: 19%

https://github.com/poem-web/poem

About the project: a full-featured and easy-to-use web framework with the Rust programming language.

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TAURI

Total stars: 30043

Last month stars: 4523

Growth: 15%

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

About the project: Tauri is a framework for building tiny, blazing fast binaries for all major desktop platforms. Developers can integrate any front-end framework that compiles to HTML, JS and CSS for building their user interface. The backend of the application is a rust-sourced binary with an API that the front-end can interact with.

Obversvations

• The repositories with data structure and algorithms implementations always taking attention, so if you are interested in this area you should definitely take a look at the DSA-Bootcamp-Java project. Moreover, this is not only implementation but a whole learning course to get you to understand the topic better.
• If you want to play with AndrRAT project, please see the desclaimer there. This project is for educational purposes only.
• Android-related projects seem trendy this month in the Java category.
• rathole and Dioxus projects demonstrated unbelievable growth this month (90+ %).
• As it became a tradition when we review the Rust projects there is almost no way to miss any crypto/blockchain-related project across top trending ones.

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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.

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