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Programming-language projects on GitHub

Design and implementation of programming languages and new language projects.

As of , the most-starred Programming-language projects on GitHub are build-your-own-x (553.8K stars), flutter (180.2K stars) and go (139.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 88 Programming-language repositories with 2.8M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was build-your-own-x, with +380 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+380

build-your-own-x

codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x · ★ 553.8K

It's a curated collection of step-by-step guides that show you how to rebuild popular technologies (databases, game engines, blockchains, compilers, web browsers, etc.) from scratch, so you understand how they really work.

+256

hypit

hypit-ai/hypit · ★ 23K

Hypit gives AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) a language and system to create video: drop in a video and the agent clones it as a full workflow — footage, captions, B-roll and effects — anchored to words instead of timestamps.

+52

rust

rust-lang/rust · ★ 120.4K

This is the main source repository for the Rust programming language — it contains the compiler (rustc), the standard library, and documentation.

+44

bend

bendlang/bend · ★ 23.7K

A high-level, massively parallel programming language. It feels like Python or Haskell (closures, unrestricted recursion, continuations) but scales across many cores and GPUs with no thread or lock code to write.

The all-time top

88 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

    build-your-own-x

    It's a curated collection of step-by-step guides that show you how to rebuild popular technologies (databases, game engines, blockchains, compilers, web browsers, etc.) from scratch, so you understand how they really work.

    553.8K
  2. #2 · flutter/flutter

    flutter

    Flutter is Google's SDK for building beautiful, fast apps for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.

    180.2K
  3. #3 · golang/go

    go

    Go is an open source programming language for building simple, reliable, and efficient software; this repository holds the language's canonical Git repository.

    139.3K
  1. 4

    rust

    120.4Krust-lang/rust · Rust

    This is the main source repository for the Rust programming language — it contains the compiler (rustc), the standard library, and documentation.

  2. 5

    TypeScript

    111.5Kmicrosoft/TypeScript · Go

    TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript: JavaScript extended with a type system, developed by Microsoft for building large applications.

  3. 6

    cpython

    77.7Kpython/cpython · Python

    This is the official source code repository for CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language, written mainly in C.

  4. 7

    awesome-courses

    71.9Kprakhar1989/awesome-courses

    It is a curated list of free, high-quality computer science courses from universities around the world, each one making its lecture materials, assignments, notes and readings available online.

  5. 8

    swift

    70.5Kswiftlang/swift · Swift

    The source repository of Swift, a high-performance system programming language with clean, modern syntax, seamless access to existing C and Objective-C code, and memory safety by default.

  6. 9

    rustlings

    64.4Krust-lang/rustlings · Rust

    Rustlings is a collection of small coding exercises that teach you Rust by having you fix broken code snippets until they compile and pass.

  7. 10

    sway

    61.4KFuelLabs/sway · Rust

    Sway is a programming language developed for the Fuel blockchain. It is heavily inspired by Rust and aims to bring modern language development and performance to smart contracts.

  8. 11

    typst

    56.7Ktypst/typst · Rust

    Typst is a markup-based typesetting system built to be as powerful as LaTeX but much easier to learn and use, with built-in math typesetting, bibliography management, and fast incremental compilation.

  9. 12

    kotlin

    53.5KJetBrains/kotlin · Kotlin

    This is the official repository for the Kotlin programming language, a concise multiplatform language developed by JetBrains and contributors that compiles to JVM bytecode, JavaScript, Native binaries, and WebAssembly.

  10. 13

    professional-programming

    51.6Kcharlax/professional-programming · Python

    It's a curated collection of learning resources (articles, books, talks, papers) meant to make software engineers more well-rounded professionals, covering everything from algorithms to career growth to system architecture.

  11. 14

    julia

    49.2KJuliaLang/julia · Julia

    Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language built for technical and scientific computing, numerical analysis, and machine learning.

  12. 15

    awesome-cheatsheets

    46.6KLeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets · JavaScript

    A curated collection of cheatsheets covering popular programming languages, frameworks, databases, and development tools, each condensed into a single reference file.

  13. 16

    zig

    43.3Kziglang/zig · Zig

    This is the GitHub repository of the Zig programming language and its compiler. The project has moved to Codeberg, so this repo is no longer mirrored and now serves mainly as a pointer to the new home.

  14. 17

    php-src

    40.4Kphp/php-src · C

    This is the source code of PHP, the popular general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development — the interpreter itself, written in C.

  15. 18

    v

    38Kvlang/v · V

    V is an open-source, statically typed compiled programming language that stays deliberately small: learnable over a weekend, it compiles itself in under a second and runs as fast as C.

  16. 19

    the-way-to-go_ZH_CN

    35Kunknwon/the-way-to-go_ZH_CN · Go

    This is the Chinese translation of the Go programming language book 'The Way to Go' by Ivo Balbaert, officially titled 'Go 入门指南' (Go Beginner's Guide) in Chinese.

  17. 20

    carbon-lang

    33.9Kcarbon-language/carbon-lang · C++

    An experimental successor language to C++: C++-level performance, seamless interop with existing C++ code, and modern, safer foundations. This repo holds its documents, design, and toolchain implementation.

  18. 21

    rust-course

    31Ksunface/rust-course · Rust

    This is '《Rust语言圣经》' (The Rust Language Bible), a free, open Chinese-language Rust programming tutorial/book with over 170 chapters and 1.1 million+ words covering everything from beginner basics to advanced topics.

  19. 22

    modular

    30Kmodular/modular · Mojo

    The open-source home of the Modular Platform for AI development and deployment — it hosts the MAX Framework and the Mojo programming language, with more components being open-sourced over time.

  20. 23

    es6features

    29Klukehoban/es6features

    A one-page overview of ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) — the major update to JavaScript and the first since ES5 was standardized in 2009.

  21. 24

    the-super-tiny-compiler

    28.5Kjamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler · JavaScript

    The Super Tiny Compiler is an ultra-simplified, heavily-commented example of all the major pieces of a modern compiler, written in plain JavaScript so beginners can learn how compilers actually work.

  22. 25

    taichi

    28.4Ktaichi-dev/taichi · C++

    Taichi Lang is an open-source language for high-performance GPU programming embedded in Python: you write Python-like code and its JIT compiler turns it into efficient parallel GPU or CPU machine code.

  23. 26

    tree-sitter

    27.2Ktree-sitter/tree-sitter · Rust

    Tree-sitter is a parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library for programming tools: it builds a syntax tree for a source file and efficiently updates it as the file is edited.

  24. 27

    elixir

    26.7Kelixir-lang/elixir · Elixir

    Elixir is a programming language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications, running on the Erlang VM (BEAM).

  25. 28

    modern-cpp-tutorial

    25.9Kchangkun/modern-cpp-tutorial · C++

    A free book teaching modern C++ features from C++11 through C++26, written for people who already know traditional C++ (C++98 or earlier) and want a fast way to learn the new stuff.

  26. 29

    solidity

    25.8Kargotorg/solidity · C++

    Solidity is a statically-typed, contract-oriented language for implementing smart contracts on Ethereum — programs that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine inside a peer-to-peer network where nobody has special authority over execution.

  27. 30

    ruby

    23.8Kruby/ruby · Ruby

    The Ruby programming language itself: an interpreted, object-oriented language that is simple, straightforward, and extensible. This repository is the official Ruby source tree.

  28. 31

    bend

    23.7Kbendlang/bend · TypeScript

    A high-level, massively parallel programming language. It feels like Python or Haskell (closures, unrestricted recursion, continuations) but scales across many cores and GPUs with no thread or lock code to write.

  29. 32

    cloc

    23.6KAlDanial/cloc · Perl

    cloc is a command-line tool that counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages — point it at a file, a directory, an archive, or a git commit and get a per-language breakdown.

  30. 33

    jdk

    23.4Kopenjdk/jdk · Java

    This is the official main-line development repository of the JDK — the Java Development Kit — where future releases of Java are developed in the OpenJDK project.

  31. 34

    hypit

    23Khypit-ai/hypit · TypeScript

    Hypit gives AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) a language and system to create video: drop in a video and the agent clones it as a full workflow — footage, captions, B-roll and effects — anchored to words instead of timestamps.

  32. 35

    gleam

    22Kgleam-lang/gleam · Rust

    Gleam is a friendly programming language for building type-safe systems that scale.

  33. 36

    the-swift-programming-language-in-chinese

    21.2KSwiftGGTeam/the-swift-programming-language-in-chinese · Markdown

    The Simplified Chinese translation of Apple's official Swift book, The Swift Programming Language (TSPL), maintained by the SwiftGG community.

  34. 37

    crystal

    20.5Kcrystal-lang/crystal · Crystal

    Crystal is an open-source, general-purpose programming language whose syntax is inspired by Ruby; it has been developed in the open on GitHub since 2012.

  35. 38

    triton

    20.4Ktriton-lang/triton · MLIR

    Triton is a language and compiler for writing highly efficient custom Deep-Learning GPU kernels, aiming to give higher productivity than CUDA and more flexibility than other existing DSLs.

  36. 39

    wenyan

    20.3Kwenyan-lang/wenyan · TypeScript

    wenyan-lang (文言) is a programming language whose syntax is Classical Chinese: you write programs as literary Chinese prose. It is Turing complete and ships with a compiler, an online IDE and a package manager.

  37. 40

    advanced-go-programming-book

    20.1Kchai2010/advanced-go-programming-book · Go

    This is the open-source online book 'Advanced Go Programming' (Go语言高级编程), covering CGO, Go assembly, RPC implementation, Protobuf plugins, web framework implementation and distributed systems for developers who already have some Go experience.

  38. 41

    proposals

    19.2Ktc39/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.

  39. 42

    book

    18.4Krust-lang/book · Rust

    The official introductory book for Rust — 'The Rust Programming Language'. This repo holds its source; you can read it free online or buy it in print from No Starch Press.

  40. 43

    learn-python

    18.4Ktrekhleb/learn-python · Python

    A collection of Python scripts split by topics, each with code examples and explanations. It doubles as a playground, where you change code and test with assertions, and as a cheatsheet for recapping Python syntax.

  41. 44

    Nim

    18.3Knim-lang/Nim · Nim

    Nim is a statically typed, compiled systems programming language that blends ideas from Python, Ada and Modula, prioritizing efficiency, expressiveness and elegance. This repository holds the Nim compiler, standard library, tools and documentation.

  42. 45

    assemblyscript

    18KAssemblyScript/assemblyscript · WebAssembly

    AssemblyScript is a programming language that looks like TypeScript and compiles to WebAssembly, so you can write .wasm modules in familiar JS/TS syntax instead of Rust or C.

  43. 46

    coffeescript

    16.6Kjashkenas/coffeescript · CoffeeScript

    CoffeeScript is a little programming language that compiles into JavaScript: you write in its cleaner syntax and get plain, standard JavaScript out.

  44. 47

    swift-evolution

    15.9Kswiftlang/swift-evolution · Markdown

    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.

  45. 48

    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.

  46. 49

    scala

    14.6Kscala/scala · Scala

    This is the official Scala 2 repository: the source for the Scala 2 compiler, standard library, and language specification. Bug reports go to scala/bug, and Scala 3 is developed separately at scala/scala3.

  47. 50

    GulfOfMexico

    13.6KTodePond/GulfOfMexico

    Gulf of Mexico (formerly called DreamBerd) is a satirical 'perfect' programming language repo that parodies real language design through absurd, deliberately broken features like exclamation-mark statement terminators, arrays starting at -1, and a boolean value of 'maybe'.

  48. 51

    acwj

    13.5KDoctorWkt/acwj · C

    A documented tutorial series where the author builds a self-compiling compiler for a subset of the C language, split into roughly 64 incremental parts, each with working source code and a written explanation of the theory behind it.

  49. 52

    lowlevelprogramming-university

    12.8Kgurugio/lowlevelprogramming-university

    A curated roadmap for learning low-level programming (assembly, C, Rust, embedded systems, Linux kernel), inspired by google-interview-university. It is a single long README with links to books, courses, and projects organized by topic.

  50. 53

    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#.

  51. 54

    book

    12.5Kqyuhen/book

    qyuhen's repository of Chinese-language programming study notes, presented as a series of books - the February 2023 lineup covers Rust, Go, C and NASM.

  52. 55

    otp

    12.4Kerlang/otp · Erlang

    Erlang is a programming language and runtime system for building massively scalable soft real-time systems that must stay highly available. This repo ships both the language and OTP.

  53. 56

    learnxinyminutes-docs

    12.4Kadambard/learnxinyminutes-docs · Markdown

    A collection of quick-reference tutorials for many programming languages, each written as a single valid, commented source file that explains the language as it runs.

  54. 57

    sonic-pi

    12.2Ksonic-pi-net/sonic-pi · C++

    Sonic Pi is a free, open source programming environment where you write and live-edit code to create and perform music, originally built to teach coding in schools but now also used by professional artists and DJs for live performances.

  55. 58

    Odin

    12.2Kodin-lang/Odin · Odin

    Odin is a general-purpose, data-oriented programming language built for high performance and modern systems programming, positioned as an alternative to C.

  56. 59

    hello-world

    12Kleachim6/hello-world · Assembly

    A massive crowdsourced collection of 'Hello, World!' programs written in over 1000 different computer languages, from mainstream ones to obscure esolangs.

  57. 60

    milewski-ctfp-pdf

    11.7Khmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf · TeX

    An unofficial PDF and LaTeX version of Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theory for Programmers' book, converted from his blog post series with his permission.

  58. 61

    pkl

    11.5Kapple/pkl · Java

    Pkl (pronounced Pickle) is a configuration-as-code language created by Apple, built for writing config with rich validation and tooling support.

  59. 62

    sdk

    11.3Kdart-lang/sdk · Dart

    This is the official Dart SDK: the Dart programming language's VM, JS and WebAssembly compilers, core libraries, analyzer, and developer tools, all in one repository.

  60. 63

    clojure

    11Kclojure/clojure · Java

    This is the source repository of the Clojure programming language — a functional Lisp dialect that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, with the compiler and runtime themselves written in Java.

  61. 64

    prql

    10.9KPRQL/prql · Rust

    PRQL (pronounced 'Prequel') is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined replacement for SQL.

  62. 65

    cython

    10.9Kcython/cython · Cython

    Cython is an optimising compiler for Python: it translates your Python code into C/C++ and compiles it into fast native extension modules. It is the most widely used Python to C compiler.

  63. 66

    c4

    10.8Krswier/c4 · C

    C4 is a tiny, self-hosting compiler and interpreter for a small subset of the C language, written in just four functions as an exercise in extreme minimalism.

  64. 67

    chia-blockchain

    10.8KChia-Network/chia-blockchain · Python

    Chia-blockchain is the official Python implementation of the Chia cryptocurrency, bundling full node, farmer, harvester, timelord, and wallet software.

  65. 68

    CppTemplateTutorial

    10.6Kwuye9036/CppTemplateTutorial · C++

    A Chinese-language, in-depth tutorial on C++ templates that treats templates as a self-contained, Turing-complete language, aiming to help readers fully internalize template metaprogramming rather than just memorize syntax.

  66. 69

    lua

    10.4Klua/lua · C

    This is the official development mirror of the Lua programming language's source code, showing the full commit history as maintained by the Lua team, though it is updated irregularly.

  67. 70

    reason

    10.3Kreasonml/reason · OCaml

    Reason is a programming language for writing simple, fast, type-safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript and OCaml ecosystems.

  68. 71

    unison

    6.8Kunisonweb/unison · Haskell

    Unison is a statically-typed functional programming language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling, built around the idea of content-addressed code where functions are identified by a hash of their implementation rather than a name.

  69. 72

    mquickjs

    6.2Kbellard/mquickjs · C

    MicroQuickJS (MQuickJS) is a JavaScript engine built for embedded systems, able to run JS programs using as little as 10 kB of RAM and about 100 kB of ROM, with speed comparable to full QuickJS.

  70. 73

    zerolang

    5.4Kvercel-labs/zerolang · C

    Zerolang is an experimental graph-native programming language built for AI coding agents: instead of editing raw source text, agents query a semantic graph (zero.graph), submit checked edits, and the compiler verifies the result before anything is written.

  71. 74

    perry

    5KPerryTS/perry · Rust

    Perry compiles the TypeScript or JavaScript you already write directly into native machine-code executables for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, watchOS and TV, using SWC to parse and LLVM to generate code, so there is no Node.js runtime or Electron bundle to ship.

  72. 75

    paper

    3Kcordiverse/paper

    This is an academic preprint (arXiv:2608.25512 [cs.PL]) that proposes a formal programming paradigm called the 'context paradigm' for building software that can dynamically add, remove, and interleave components (like plugins or self-evolving agent harnesses) without breaking each other.

  73. 76

    spinel

    2.2Kmatz/spinel · C

    Spinel is a Ruby ahead-of-time compiler that turns Ruby source code into standalone native executables by inferring types across the whole program and generating optimized C code.

  74. 77

    compiler

    936edgcpp/compiler · C

    This is the open-source EDG C/C++ compiler front end project: a parser and semantic analyzer for C and C++ that is famous for matching Clang, GCC, and MSVC's parsing behavior (including their quirks) so vendors can embed it in their own tools.

  75. 78

    Tov

    707richiemcilroy/Tov · JavaScript

    Tov is a TypeScript-shaped programming language built specifically for coding agents. It compiles to a single small native binary instead of running on a JS/Bun/Node runtime.

  76. 79

    goose

    607aardappel/goose · C++

    Goose is a memory-safe systems programming language with no heap allocator, garbage collector, or lifetime annotations. In its own benchmarks it runs faster than C++ and safe Rust while using less memory.

  77. 80

    Kof4j

    286KofLang/Kof4j · Java

    Kof (pronounced 'coffe') is a general-purpose, statically typed programming language with its own compiler. One language compiles to JVM, native binaries, JavaScript and Android — only the target changes, not the language.

  78. 81

    GATE

    283Blade67/GATE · GDScript

    GATE is a superset of GDScript for the Godot Engine that adds extra language features like null safety, structs, generics and interfaces, while compiling straight down to plain GDScript.

  79. 82

    openchart

    238longsurf-ai/openchart · TypeScript

    OpenChart is an open-source trading workspace that brings AI agents into charting, technical analysis, market alerts, and research, letting you use your own Claude, Codex, or Gemini models to analyze markets.

  80. 83

    morloc

    219morloc-project/morloc · Rust

    Morloc is a strongly-typed, polyglot compiler: it composes functions written in different languages under one common type system and turns each module into a CLI, an API and an MCP server.

  81. 84

    tsrx

    180tsrx-org/tsrx · JavaScript

    TSRX (TypeScript Render Extensions) is a TypeScript language extension for building declarative user interfaces, combining TypeScript setup, JSX-like structure, template control flow, and sibling-scoped styles in .tsrx files, which compile to idiomatic output for your chosen UI runtime.

  82. 85

    ArcadeMaker

    154ArcadeMakerSources/ArcadeMaker · C#

    ArcadeMaker is a simple cross-platform 2D game engine that ships with its own programming language (prototyped as Exp) and an integrated IDE, modeled after GameMaker 8.

  83. 86

    CalcKernel

    152luxine/CalcKernel · Rust

    CalcKernel (CK) is a statically typed language for writing focused numerical computation kernels that a larger application calls into, rather than a full application-level language.

  84. 87

    PLHaskell

    148ed-o-saurus/PLHaskell · Python

    PL/Haskell is a PostgreSQL extension — a 'procedural language' — that lets you write, install, and run functions written in Haskell directly from SQL code.

  85. 88

    Singeli

    136mlochbaum/Singeli · BQN

    Singeli is a domain-specific language for building high-performance algorithms, including SIMD code. It provides flexible abstractions over code that maps to individual CPU instructions, and it compiles your programs down to C.

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