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Language-design projects on GitHub

Designing and evolving programming language features.

As of , the most-starred Language-design projects on GitHub are toml (20.6K stars), proposals (19.2K stars) and swift-evolution (15.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Language-design repositories with 84.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was toml, with +3 stars in a day.

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84.1KStars in total
+7Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

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toml

toml-lang/toml · ★ 20.6K

TOML (Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language) is a minimal configuration file format designed to be readable at a glance, with semantics obvious enough to map cleanly onto a hash table. This repository holds the in-development TOML specification itself.

+2

proposals

tc39/proposals · ★ 19.2K

The official TC39 repository that tracks every proposal for future JavaScript (ECMAScript) features — a living index of what is being considered for the next versions of the language standard.

+1

swift-evolution

swiftlang/swift-evolution · ★ 15.9K

This is the Swift Evolution repository: it tracks how the Swift programming language, its standard library, and its package manager evolve, one proposal at a time.

+1

ecma262

tc39/ecma262 · ★ 15.7K

It is the source repository for the current draft of ECMA-262, the ECMAScript (JavaScript) Language Specification, maintained by TC39. The source is processed to generate the human-readable edition of the spec.

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5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · toml-lang/toml

    toml

    TOML (Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language) is a minimal configuration file format designed to be readable at a glance, with semantics obvious enough to map cleanly onto a hash table. This repository holds the in-development TOML specification itself.

    20.6K
  2. #2 · tc39/proposals

    proposals

    The official TC39 repository that tracks every proposal for future JavaScript (ECMAScript) features — a living index of what is being considered for the next versions of the language standard.

    19.2K
  3. #3 · swiftlang/swift-evolution

    swift-evolution

    This is the Swift Evolution repository: it tracks how the Swift programming language, its standard library, and its package manager evolve, one proposal at a time.

    15.9K
  1. 4

    ecma262

    15.7Ktc39/ecma262 · HTML

    It is the source repository for the current draft of ECMA-262, the ECMAScript (JavaScript) Language Specification, maintained by TC39. The source is processed to generate the human-readable edition of the spec.

  2. 5

    csharplang

    12.7Kdotnet/csharplang · C#

    The official repo where the C# language itself is designed: new language features are proposed, debated, adopted and specified here by the C# Language Design Team (LDT), in coordination with Roslyn, the project that implements C#.

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