microsoft/WSL
- Total stars
- 34,250
- Today
- +2since 00:10 UTC
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About the project
Windows Subsystem for Linux lets you run Linux command-line tools and applications directly on Windows without a virtual machine or dual boot. This repository hosts the WSL source code, documentation and issue tracker.
Useful for
- Run Linux tools and scripts from Windows command line without setting up a VM
- Build WSL from source and study its architecture
- Report a bug or propose an improvement for WSL
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 29, 2026, 02:21 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
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-29 (UTC), 00:10–02:18: 34248 → 34250 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +9 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 108. +19% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 22, 2026
- 18
- October 23, 2026
- 15
- October 24, 2026
- 15
- October 25, 2026
- 22
- October 26, 2026
- 15
- October 27, 2026
- 16
- October 28, 2026
- 7
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 42 · September 30, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 29, 2026, 02:21 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
- 34,250
- Today
- +2 stars measured 2026-10-29, 00:10–02:18 UTC, ≈ 10 by evening
- Forks
- 1,874
- Issues and pull requests
- 14,970
- Watchers
- 590
- Language
- C++
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- 3.0.4 · October 20, 2026
- Created
- April 6, 2016
- Last push
- October 29, 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
- October 24, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #6, +17 stars
- October 23, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #5, +20 stars
- October 3, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #4, +34 stars
- October 2, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #4, +37 stars
- October 1, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #10, +42 stars
- September 19, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #17, +11 stars
- September 18, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #17, +8 stars
- September 17, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #17, +10 stars
- September 16, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #17, +13 stars
- September 13, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #6, +9 stars
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