protocolbuffers/protobuf
- Total stars
- 72,150
- Today
- +5since 00:14 UTC
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About the project
Protocol Buffers is Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral mechanism for serializing structured data, with the protoc compiler and runtimes for C++, Java, Python, Go and other languages. It is used for data interchange between services and storing structured records.
Useful for
- Compile a .proto schema into code for a target language with protoc
- Exchange messages between microservices over gRPC
- Serialize structured data into a compact binary format
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of November 2, 2026, 21:46 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 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:14–21:41: 72145 → 72150 stars (+5). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +6 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 33. +10% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 26, 2026
- 4
- October 27, 2026
- 8
- October 28, 2026
- 5
- October 29, 2026
- 2
- October 30, 2026
- 4
- October 31, 2026
- 2
- November 1, 2026
- 8
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 10 · October 12, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: November 2, 2026, 21:46 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
- 72,150
- Today
- +5 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:14–21:41 UTC, ≈ 6 by evening
- Forks
- 16,359
- Issues and pull requests
- 30,928
- Watchers
- 2,000
- Language
- C++
- Latest release
- v37.0-rc1 · October 15, 2026
- Created
- August 26, 2014
- Last push
- November 2, 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 31, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #2, +5 stars
- October 30, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #2, +5 stars
- October 29, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #3, +5 stars
- October 28, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #10, +6 stars
- October 25, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #10, +3 stars
- October 24, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #10, +3 stars
- October 22, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #12, +2 stars
- October 21, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #2, +1 star
- October 20, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #2, +11 stars
- October 17, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #11, +5 stars
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