Trending Rust repos of the week 📈
Tags: news, github, opensource, rust
Published: 2023-02-14 13:46:43

Hey there 👋

In this week's `#trendingTuesday` we'll look at the fastest growing repos in the Rust programming language.

Our methodology to compute trending is slightly different than GitHub’s (we'll write a post on the stats behind it soon), so in this list you'll find a few gems that you won’t find anywhere else 💎 

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🔟 The tenth place is for [`GptCommit`](https://github.com/zurawiki/gptcommit), which is a cool GPT-3 powered hook for authoring clear, comprehensive, and descriptive commit messages. This is an excellent application of LLMs for developer augmentation 🙌

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9️⃣ [`Lance`](https://github.com/eto-ai/lance) is a new columnar data format that claims to be 100x faster than Apache Parquet,  allowing you to perform vector search in under 1 millisecond. It has ecosystem integrations for Apache Arrow and DuckDB! It was created by YC startup [@etodotai](https://twitter.com/etodotai)

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8️⃣ In place number eight we have another database-oriented project. 

[`DriftDB`](https://github.com/drifting-in-space/driftdb) is a real-time data backend for browser applications. It supports a number of messaging primitives like PubSub, Key/value storage with subscriptions, and ordered streams. 

It’s brought to you by the team at [@drifting_corp](https://twitter.com/drifting_corp) 🙂

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7️⃣ In the seventh spot we have  [`rtx`](https://github.com/jdxcode/rtx) which brands itself as an `asdf` rust clone.

In layman’s terms, `rtx` is a tool that helps you manage different versions of programming languages and tools and automatically switch between those versions depending on the project you’re working on. 

The tool’s brought to you by [@jdxcode](https://twitter.com/jdxcode)

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6️⃣ Next is [`touchHLE`](https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE), an emulator that lets you play old games from the iPhone on your computer. So far, only Super Monkey Ball has been implemented, but many more are on the way.

Credits to [@hikari_no_yume](https://twitter.com/hikari_no_yume) and three other contributors - we're looking forward to the implementation of Angry Birds 🐦

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5️⃣ The fifth place is taken by the [`trustfall`](https://github.com/obi1kenobi/trustfall) query engine, an extremely cool project that helps you query any data source or combination of data sources (from Databases, to APIs, to git version control) as GraphQL. You can plug (almost) any dataset just by writing a schema and implementing four functions 👌. 

Great work by [@PredragGruevski](https://twitter.com/PredragGruevski). You should also check out Predrag’s talk!

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4️⃣ It’s not every day that you stumble upon an open source project that makes you go into the rabbit hole of a new set of ideas.

Have you heard of ordinal theory in the context of Bitcoin? It’s the theory that gives satoshis (the atomic currency of the bitcoin network) individual identity and numismatic value allowing them to be traded as collectibles.

[`ord`](https://github.com/casey/ord) is an index, block explorer, and command-line wallet with ordinal theory in mind. 

A true gem in open source, not only the Bitcoin community. Kudos to [@rodarmor](https://twitter.com/rodarmor/) for creating this gem 💎

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3️⃣ The third places goes to [`glidesort`](https://github.com/orlp/glidesort), which is a comparison-based sorting algorithm that works exceptionally well on structured data.

It achieves an average and worst-case complexity of `O(n (log n)^2)` when given only `O(1)` memory. Cool to see a low-level fundamental algorithm trending on GitHub as an open source project.

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2️⃣ The 2nd place in this week’s list goes to [`lencx/ChatGPT`](https://github.com/lencx/ChatGPT) which is a ChatGPT Desktop Application.

The repo was also featured a few weeks ago in our #ML trending list, so great to see it growing in popularity over the weeks. Congratulations and kudos to [@lencx_](https://twitter.com/lencx_) for creating this and maintaining this project 🙏 

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1️⃣ The top place is for [`carbonyl`](https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl), a Chromium-based browser that lets you surf the web from the comfort of your terminal 🤯 

Carbonyl is snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage! Brought to you by @fathyb, very well deserved!

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