# rust-lang/rust

> 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.

- Magnitude: 2.7 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 120,830 total · +16 stars measured 2026-10-30, 00:20–10:09 UTC, ≈ 37 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2010-06-16 · Last push: 2026-10-30
- GitHub: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust · Homepage: https://www.rust-lang.org · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/rust-lang/rust

## Useful for

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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-30 (UTC), 00:20–10:09: 120814 → 120830 stars (+16). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +37 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Hacker News: “11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker” — 747 points, 16 days ago.
- About 10 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @ubiratansoares (533 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 17,991
- Issues and pull requests: 164,547
- Watchers: 1,553
- Average over the last week: 46 per day
- Usual pace: 76 per day
- Latest release: 1.99.1 (2026-10-16)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 30, 40, 36, 36, 38, 73, 48, 67, 57, 106, 468, 177, 49, 49, 53, 55, 49, 49, 41, 36, 51, 56, 63, 49, 31, 37, 6, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-17 3.5, 10-18 3.5, 10-19 4.3, 10-20 4.1, 10-21 3.3, 10-22 3.4, 10-23 3.0, 10-24 2.7, 10-25 2.9, 10-26 3.0, 10-27 2.8, 10-28 2.7, 10-29 2.5, 10-30 2.7

## Hacker News

- 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker — 747 points, 445 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50069499

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-30 10:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.