GitHub’s Top 100 Most Valuable Repositories Out of 96 Million

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What’s shaping our technology world

GitHub is not just a code hosting service with version control — it’s also an enormous developer network.

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The sheer size of GitHub at over 30 million accounts, more than 2 million organizations, and over 96 million repositories translates into one of the world’s most valuable development networks.

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How do you quantify the value of this network? And is there a way to get the top repositories?

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Here at U°OS, we ran the GitHub network through a simplified version¹ of our reputation algorithm and produced the top 100 most valuable repositories.

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The result is as fascinating as it is eclectic in the way that it does feel like a good reflection of our society’s interest in the technology and where it moves.

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There are the big proprietary players with open source projects — Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and even Baidu. And at the same time, there’s a Chinese anti-censorship tool.

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There’s Bitcoin for cryptocurrency.

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There’s a particle detector for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

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There are gaming projects like Space Station 13 and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and a gaming engine Godot.

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There are education projects like freeCodeCamp, Open edX, Oppia, and Code.org.

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There are web and mobile app building projects like WordPress, Joomla, and Flutter to publish your content on.

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There are databases to store your content for the web like Ceph and CockroachDB.

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And there’s a search engine to navigate through the content — Elasticsearch.

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There are also, perhaps unsurprisingly, jailbreak projects like Cydia compatibility manager for iOS and Nintendo 3DS custom firmware.

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And there’s a smart home system — Home Assistant.

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All in all, it’s really a great outlook for the technology world: we learn, build stuff to broadcast our unique voices, we use crypto, break free from proprietary software on our hardware, and in the spare time we game in our automated homes. And the big companies open-source their projects.

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Before I proceed with the list, a result of running the Octoverse through the reputation algorithm also produced a value score for every individual GitHub contributor. So, if you have a GitHub account and curious, you can get your score at https://u.community/github and convert it to a Universal Portable Reputation.

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Top 100 projects & repositories

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Out of over 96 million repositories

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Google Kubernetes

Container scheduling and management

Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes

Website: https://kubernetes.io/ Apache Spark

A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing

Repository: https://github.com/apache/spark

Website: http://spark.apache.org/ Microsoft Visual Studio Code

A source-code editor

Repository: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

Website: https://code.visualstudio.com/ NixOS Package Collection

A collection of packages for the Nix package manager

Repository: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

Website: https://nixos.org Rust

Programming language

Repository: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust

Website: https://www.rust-lang.org/ Firehol IP Lists

Blacklists for Firehol, a firewall builder

Repository: https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets

Website: https://iplists.firehol.org/ Red Hat OpenShift

A community distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment

Repository: https://github.com/openshift/origin

Website: https://www.openshift.com/ Ansible

A deployment automation platform

Repository: https://github.com/ansible/ansible

Website: https://www.ansible.com/ Automattic WordPress Calypso

A JavaScript and API powered front-end for WordPress.com

Repository: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso

Website: https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/ Microsoft .NET CoreFX

Foundational class libraries for .NET Core

Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx

Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/ Microsoft .NET Roslyn

.NET compiler

Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn

Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/roslyn-sdk/ Node.js

A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine

Repository: https://github.com/nodejs/node

Website: https://nodejs.org/en/ TensorFlow

Google’s machine learning framework

Repository: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow

Website: https://www.tensorflow.org/ freeCodeCamp

Code learning platform

Repository: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp

Website: https://www.freecodecamp.org/ Space Station 13

A round-based roleplaying game

Repository: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation

Website: https://www.tgstation13.org/ Apple Swift

Apple’s programming language

Repository: https://github.com/apple/swift

Website: https://swift.org/ Elasticsearch

A search engine

Repository: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

Website: https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch Moby

An open framework to assemble specialized container systems

Repository: https://github.com/moby/moby

Website: https://mobyproject.org/ CockroachDB

A cloud-native SQL database

Repository: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

Website: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ Cydia Compatibility Checker

A compatibility checker for Cydia — a package manager for iOS jailbroken devices

Repository: https://github.com/jlippold/tweakCompatible

Website: https://jlippold.github.io/tweakCompatible/ Servo

A web browser engine

Repository: https://github.com/servo/servo

Website: https://servo.org/ Google Flutter

Google’s mobile app SDK to create interfaces for iOS and Android

Repository: https://github.com/flutter/flutter

Website: https://flutter.dev/ macOS Homebrew Package Manager

Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS

Repository: https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-core

Website: https://brew.sh/ Home Assistant

Home automation software

Repository: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant

Website: https://www.home-assistant.io/ Microsoft .NET CoreCLR

Runtime for .NET Core

Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr

Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/ CocoaPods Specifications

Specifications for CocoaPods, a Cocoa dependency manager

Repository: https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs

Website: https://cocoapods.org/ Elastic Kibana

An analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch

Repository: https://github.com/elastic/kibana

Website: https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana Julia Language

A technical computing language

Repository: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia

Website: https://julialang.org/ Microsoft TypeScript

A superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript

Repository: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript

Website: https://www.typescriptlang.org/ Joomla

A content management system

Repository: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms

Website: https://www.joomla.org/ DefinitelyTyped

A repository for TypeScript type definitions

Repository: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped

Website: http://definitelytyped.org/ Homebrew Cask

A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries

Repository: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask

Website: https://brew.sh/ Ceph

A distributed object, block, and file storage platform

Repository: https://github.com/ceph/ceph

Website: https://ceph.com/ Go

Programming language

Repository: https://github.com/golang/go

Website: https://golang.org/ AMP HTML Builder

A way to build pages for Google AMP

Repository: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml

Website: https://amp.dev/ Open edX

An online education platform

Repository: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform

Website: https://open.edx.org/ Pandas

A data analysis and manipulation library for Python

Repository: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas

Website: https://pandas.pydata.org/ Istio

A platform to manage microservices

Repository: https://github.com/istio/istio

Website: https://istio.io/ ManageIQ

A containers, virtual machines, networks, and storage management platform

Repository: https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq

Website: http://manageiq.org/ Godot Engine

A multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

Repository: https://github.com/godotengine/godot

Website: https://godotengine.org/ Gentoo Repository Mirror

A Gentoo ebuild repository mirror

Repository: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo

Website: https://www.gentoo.org/ Odoo

A suite of web based open source business apps

Repository: https://github.com/odoo/odoo

Website: https://www.odoo.com/ Azure Documentation

Documentation of Microsoft Azure

Repository: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs

Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure Magento

An eCommerce platform

Repository: https://github.com/magento/magento2

Website: https://magento.com/ Saltstack

Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale

Repository: https://github.com/saltstack/salt

Website: https://www.saltstack.com/ AdGuard Filters

Ad blocking filters for AdGuard

Repository: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters

Website: https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html Symfony

A PHP framework

Repository: https://github.com/symfony/symfony

Website: https://symfony.com/ CMS Software for the Large Hadron Collider

Particle detector software components for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Repository: https://github.com/cms-sw/cmssw

Website: http://cms-sw.github.io/ Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift installation and configuration management

Repository: https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible

Website: https://www.openshift.com/ ownCloud

Personal cloud software

Repository: https://github.com/owncloud/core

Website: https://owncloud.org/ gRPC

A remote procedure call (RPC) framework

Repository: https://github.com/grpc/grpc

Website: https://grpc.io/ Liferay

An enterprise web platform

Repository: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal

Website: https://www.liferay.com/ CommCare HQ

A mobile data collection platform

Repository: https://github.com/dimagi/commcare-hq

Website: https://www.commcarehq.org/ WordPress Gutenberg

An editor plugin for WordPress

Repository: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg

Website: https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ PyTorch

A Python package for Tensor computation and deep neural networks

Repository: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch

Website: https://pytorch.org/ Kubernetes Test Infrastructure

A test-infra repository for Kubernetes

Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra

Website: https://kubernetes.io/ Keybase

Keybase client repository

Repository: https://github.com/keybase/client

Website: https://keybase.io/ Facebook React

A JavaScript library for building user interfaces

Repository: https://github.com/facebook/react

Website: https://reactjs.org/ Code.org

Code learning resource

Repository: https://github.com/code-dot-org/code-dot-org

Website: https://code.org/ Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin client software

Repository: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

Website: https://bitcoincore.org/ Arm Mbed OS

A platform operating system for the Internet of Things

Repository: https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os

Website: https://www.mbed.com scikit-learn

A Python module for machine learning

Repository: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn

Website: https://scikit-learn.org Nextcloud

A self-hosted productivity platform

Repository: https://github.com/nextcloud/server

Website: https://nextcloud.com/ Helm Charts

A curated list of applications for Kubernetes

Repository: https://github.com/helm/charts

Website: https://kubernetes.io/ Terraform

An infrastructure management tool

Repository: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform

Website: https://www.terraform.io/ Ant Design

A UI design language

Repository: https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design

Website: https://ant.design/ Phalcon Framework Documentation

Documentation for Phalcon, a PHP framework

Repository: https://github.com/phalcon/docs

Website: https://docs.phalconphp.com Documentation for CMS Software for the Large Hadron Collider

Documentation for CMS Software for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Repository: https://github.com/cms-sw/cms-sw.github.io

Website: http://cms-sw.github.io/ Apache Kafka Mirror

A mirror for Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform

Repository: https://github.com/apache/kafka

Website: https://kafka.apache.org/ Electron

A framework to write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS

Repository: https://github.com/electron/electron

Website: https://electronjs.org/ Zephyr Project

A real-time operating system

Repository: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr

Website: https://www.zephyrproject.org/ The web-platform-tests Project

A cross-browser testsuite for the Web-platform stack

Repository: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt

Website: https://www.w3.org/ Marlin Firmware

Optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform

Repository: https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin

Website: http://marlinfw.org/ Apache MXNet

A library for deep learning

Repository: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet

Website: https://mxnet.apache.org/ Apache Beam

A unified programming model

Repository: https://github.com/apache/beam

Website: https://beam.apache.org/ Fastlane

A build and release automaton for iOS and Android apps

Repository: https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane

Website: https://fastlane.tools/ Kubernetes Website and Documentation

A repository for the Kubernetes website and documentation

Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/website

Website: https://kubernetes.io Ruby on Rails

A web-application framework

Repository: https://github.com/rails/rails

Website: https://rubyonrails.org/ Zulip

Team chat software

Repository: https://github.com/zulip/zulip

Website: https://zulipchat.com/ Laravel

A web application framework

Repository: https://github.com/laravel/framework

Website: https://laravel.com/ Baidu PaddlePaddle

Baidu’s deep learning framework

Repository: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle

Website: http://www.paddlepaddle.org/ Gatsby

A web application framework

Repository: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby

Website: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/ Rust Crate Registry

Rust’s community package registry

Repository: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index

Website: https://crates.io/ Nintendo 3DS Custom Firmware

A complete guide to 3DS custom firmware

Repository: https://github.com/hacks-guide/Guide_3DS

Website: https://3ds.hacks.guide/ TiDB

A NewSQL database

Repository: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

Website: https://pingcap.com Angular CLI

CLI tool for Angular, a Google web application framework

Repository: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli

Website: https://cli.angular.io/ MAPS.ME

Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS and Android

Repository: https://github.com/mapsme/omim

Website: https://maps.me/ Eclipse Che

A cloud IDE for Eclipse

Repository: https://github.com/eclipse/che

Website: http://www.eclipse.org/che/ Brave Browser

A browser with native BAT cryptocurrency

Repository: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop

Website: https://www.brave.com/ Patchwork

A repository to learn Git

Repository: https://github.com/jlord/patchwork

Website: http://jlord.us/patchwork/ Angular Material

Component infrastructure and Material Design components for Angular, a Google web application framework

Repository: https://github.com/angular/components

Website: https://material.angular.io/ Python

Programming language

Repository: https://github.com/python/cpython

Website: https://www.python.org/ Space Station 13

A round-based roleplaying game

Repository: https://github.com/vgstation-coders/vgstation13

Website: http://ss13.moe/ Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

A turn-based survival game

Repository: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Website: http://cataclysmdda.org/ Material-UI

React components that implement Google’s Material Design

Repository: https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui

Website: https://material-ui.com/ Ionic

A Progressive Web Apps development framework

Repository: https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic

Website: https://ionicframework.com/ Oppia

A tool for collaboratively building interactive lessons

Repository: https://github.com/oppia/oppia

Website: https://www.oppia.org Alluxio

A virtual distributed storage system

Repository: https://github.com/Alluxio/alluxio

Website: https://www.alluxio.io/ XX Net

A Chinese web proxy and anti-censorship tool

Repository: https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net

Website: None Microsoft .NET CLI

A CLI tool for .NET

Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/cli

Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/

[1] The explanation of the calculation of the simplified version is at the U°OS Network GitHub repository.

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