flash-tex/flashtex
- Total stars
- 67
- Today
- +0
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Blazing ⚡️ fast (La)TeX compiler + IDE written in Rust (HackCMU 2026 Winner)
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About the project
A Rust LaTeX engine with incremental compilation and a native macOS IDE with live preview; no TeX distribution required.
Useful for
- Build a PDF from a .tex file via CLI without installing TeX Live
- Write LaTeX in the IDE with a preview that updates on every keystroke
- Check a document for unsupported constructs via flashtex check --json
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 28, 2026, 17:49 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- The repository is 16 days old and already has 67 stars.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.
Daily measurements · UTC
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Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: September 21, 2026, 10:50 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 67
- Today
- +0 stars on 2026-09-28 (UTC), ≈ 0 by evening
- Forks
- 3
- Issues and pull requests
- 957
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- Rust
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v0.1.8 · September 17, 2026
- Created
- September 12, 2026
- Last push
- September 21, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- September 18, 2026Top new repositories this week: #154
- September 17, 2026Top new repositories this week: #167