sharkdp/bat
- Total stars
- 61,250
- Today
- +13since 00:09 UTC
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About the project
A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration: displays files in the terminal with colors, line numbers and change markers.
Useful for
- Replace cat with bat to view files with syntax highlighting
- Use bat as an fzf previewer when browsing files
- Highlight git diff and git show output through bat
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of November 14, 2026, 11:22 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 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:09–11:16: 61237 → 61250 stars (+13). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +26 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @NotAFlightRisk (1,036 followers), @millette (310 followers).
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 143. -17% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- November 7, 2026
- 19
- November 8, 2026
- 23
- November 9, 2026
- 21
- November 10, 2026
- 27
- November 11, 2026
- 16
- November 12, 2026
- 14
- November 13, 2026
- 23
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 40 · November 6, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: November 14, 2026, 11:22 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
- 61,250
- Today
- +13 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:09–11:16 UTC, ≈ 26 by evening
- Forks
- 2,312
- Issues and pull requests
- 3,971
- Watchers
- 253
- Language
- Rust
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Latest release
- v0.26.1 · December 2, 2025
- Created
- April 21, 2018
- Last push
- November 10, 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
- November 7, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #16, +138 stars
- November 6, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #16, +128 stars
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