rust-lang/rust

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Developer toolsRust#rust#compiler#language

2.5 Cooling Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

The main repository of the Rust language: the rustc compiler, standard library, and documentation. Used to build Rust projects and to contribute to the language itself.

Useful for

Build the rustc compiler from source for local development
Study the compiler architecture via rustc-dev-guide and submit a first patch

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

18 stars so far today, about 22 expected by the end of the day.
Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 18% of the previous week and a half.
About 99 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 118,931
Stars in a day: 22
Forks: 16,021
Issues and pull requests: 162,353
Watchers: 1,551
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: 1.98.1 · September 3, 2026
Created: June 16, 2010
Last push: September 18, 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 15, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #15, +299 stars
September 14, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #14, +353 stars

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