What’s shaping our technology world GitHub is not just a code hosting service with version control — it’s also an enormous developer network. 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. How do you quantify the value of this network? And is there a way to get the top repositories? Here at U°OS, we ran the GitHub network through a simplified version¹ of and produced the top 100 most valuable repositories. our reputation algorithm 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. 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. There’s Bitcoin for cryptocurrency. There’s a particle detector for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. There are gaming projects like Space Station 13 and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and a gaming engine Godot. There are education projects like freeCodeCamp, Open edX, Oppia, and Code.org. There are web and mobile app building projects like WordPress, Joomla, and Flutter to publish your content on. There are databases to store your content for the web like Ceph and CockroachDB. And there’s a search engine to navigate through the content — Elasticsearch. There are also, perhaps unsurprisingly, jailbreak projects like Cydia compatibility manager for iOS and Nintendo 3DS custom firmware. And there’s a smart home system — Home Assistant. 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. 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 and convert it to a Universal Portable Reputation. https://u.community/github Top 100 projects & repositories Out of over 96 million repositories Repository: Website: Google Kubernetes Container scheduling and management https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes https://kubernetes.io/ Repository: Website: Apache Spark A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing https://github.com/apache/spark http://spark.apache.org/ Repository: Website: Microsoft Visual Studio Code A source-code editor https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://code.visualstudio.com/ Repository: Website: NixOS Package Collection A collection of packages for the Nix package manager https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs https://nixos.org Repository: Website: Rust Programming language https://github.com/rust-lang/rust https://www.rust-lang.org/ Repository: Website: Firehol IP Lists Blacklists for Firehol, a firewall builder https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets https://iplists.firehol.org/ Repository: Website: Red Hat OpenShift A community distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment https://github.com/openshift/origin https://www.openshift.com/ Repository: Website: Ansible A deployment automation platform https://github.com/ansible/ansible https://www.ansible.com/ Repository: Website: Automattic WordPress Calypso A JavaScript and API powered front-end for WordPress.com https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/ Repository: Website: Microsoft .NET CoreFX Foundational class libraries for .NET Core https://github.com/dotnet/corefx https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/ Repository: Website: Microsoft .NET Roslyn .NET compiler https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/roslyn-sdk/ Repository: Website: Node.js A JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine https://github.com/nodejs/node https://nodejs.org/en/ Repository: Website: TensorFlow Google’s machine learning framework https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow https://www.tensorflow.org/ Repository: Website: freeCodeCamp Code learning platform https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp https://www.freecodecamp.org/ Repository: Website: Space Station 13 A round-based roleplaying game https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation https://www.tgstation13.org/ Repository: Website: Apple Swift Apple’s programming language https://github.com/apple/swift https://swift.org/ Repository: Website: Elasticsearch A search engine https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch Repository: Website: Moby An open framework to assemble specialized container systems https://github.com/moby/moby https://mobyproject.org/ Repository: Website: CockroachDB A cloud-native SQL database https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ Repository: Website: Cydia Compatibility Checker A compatibility checker for Cydia — a package manager for iOS jailbroken devices https://github.com/jlippold/tweakCompatible https://jlippold.github.io/tweakCompatible/ Repository: Website: Servo A web browser engine https://github.com/servo/servo https://servo.org/ Repository: Website: Google Flutter Google’s mobile app SDK to create interfaces for iOS and Android https://github.com/flutter/flutter https://flutter.dev/ Repository: Website: macOS Homebrew Package Manager Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-core https://brew.sh/ Repository: Website: Home Assistant Home automation software https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/ Repository: Website: Microsoft .NET CoreCLR Runtime for .NET Core https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/ Repository: Website: CocoaPods Specifications Specifications for CocoaPods, a Cocoa dependency manager https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs https://cocoapods.org/ An analytics and search dashboard for ElasticsearchRepository: Website: Elastic Kibana https://github.com/elastic/kibana https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana Repository: Website: Julia Language A technical computing language https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia https://julialang.org/ Repository: Website: Microsoft TypeScript A superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript https://www.typescriptlang.org/ Repository: Website: Joomla A content management system https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms https://www.joomla.org/ Repository: Website: DefinitelyTyped A repository for TypeScript type definitions https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped http://definitelytyped.org/ Repository: Website: Homebrew Cask A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask https://brew.sh/ Repository: Website: Ceph A distributed object, block, and file storage platform https://github.com/ceph/ceph https://ceph.com/ Repository: Website: Go Programming language https://github.com/golang/go https://golang.org/ AMP HTML Builder Repository: Website: A way to build pages for Google AMP https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml https://amp.dev/ Repository: Website: Open edX An online education platform https://github.com/edx/edx-platform https://open.edx.org/ Repository: Website: Pandas A data analysis and manipulation library for Python https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas https://pandas.pydata.org/ Repository: Website: Istio A platform to manage microservices https://github.com/istio/istio https://istio.io/ Repository: Website: ManageIQ A containers, virtual machines, networks, and storage management platform https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq http://manageiq.org/ Repository: Website: Godot Engine A multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine https://github.com/godotengine/godot https://godotengine.org/ Repository: Website: Gentoo Repository Mirror A Gentoo ebuild repository mirror https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo https://www.gentoo.org/ Repository: Website: Odoo A suite of web based open source business apps https://github.com/odoo/odoo https://www.odoo.com/ Repository: Website: Azure Documentation Documentation of Microsoft Azure https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs https://docs.microsoft.com/azure Repository: Website: Magento An eCommerce platform https://github.com/magento/magento2 https://magento.com/ Repository: Website: Saltstack Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale https://github.com/saltstack/salt https://www.saltstack.com/ Repository: Website: AdGuard Filters Ad blocking filters for AdGuard https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html Repository: Website: Symfony A PHP framework https://github.com/symfony/symfony https://symfony.com/ Repository: Website: CMS Software for the Large Hadron Collider Particle detector software components for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider https://github.com/cms-sw/cmssw http://cms-sw.github.io/ Repository: Website: Red Hat OpenShift OpenShift installation and configuration management https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible https://www.openshift.com/ Repository: Website: ownCloud Personal cloud software https://github.com/owncloud/core https://owncloud.org/ Repository: Website: gRPC A remote procedure call (RPC) framework https://github.com/grpc/grpc https://grpc.io/ Repository: Website: Liferay An enterprise web platform https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal https://www.liferay.com/ Repository: Website: CommCare HQ A mobile data collection platform https://github.com/dimagi/commcare-hq https://www.commcarehq.org/ Repository: Website: WordPress Gutenberg An editor plugin for WordPress https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ Repository: Website: PyTorch A Python package for Tensor computation and deep neural networks https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch https://pytorch.org/ Repository: Website: Kubernetes Test Infrastructure A test-infra repository for Kubernetes https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra https://kubernetes.io/ Repository: Website: Keybase Keybase client repository https://github.com/keybase/client https://keybase.io/ Repository: Website: Facebook React A JavaScript library for building user interfaces https://github.com/facebook/react https://reactjs.org/ Repository: Website: Code.org Code learning resource https://github.com/code-dot-org/code-dot-org https://code.org/ Repository: Website: Bitcoin Core Bitcoin client software https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin https://bitcoincore.org/ Repository: Website: Arm Mbed OS A platform operating system for the Internet of Things https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os https://www.mbed.com Repository: Website: scikit-learn A Python module for machine learning https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn https://scikit-learn.org Repository: Website: Nextcloud A self-hosted productivity platform https://github.com/nextcloud/server https://nextcloud.com/ Repository: Website: Helm Charts A curated list of applications for Kubernetes https://github.com/helm/charts https://kubernetes.io/ Repository: Website: Terraform An infrastructure management tool https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform https://www.terraform.io/ Repository: Website: Ant Design A UI design language https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design https://ant.design/ Repository: Website: Phalcon Framework Documentation Documentation for Phalcon, a PHP framework https://github.com/phalcon/docs https://docs.phalconphp.com Repository: Website: Documentation for CMS Software for the Large Hadron Collider Documentation for CMS Software for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider https://github.com/cms-sw/cms-sw.github.io http://cms-sw.github.io/ Repository: Website: Apache Kafka Mirror A mirror for Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform https://github.com/apache/kafka https://kafka.apache.org/ Repository: Website: Electron A framework to write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS https://github.com/electron/electron https://electronjs.org/ Repository: Website: Zephyr Project A real-time operating system https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr https://www.zephyrproject.org/ Repository: Website: The web-platform-tests Project A cross-browser testsuite for the Web-platform stack https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt https://www.w3.org/ Repository: Website: Marlin Firmware Optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin http://marlinfw.org/ Repository: Website: Apache MXNet A library for deep learning https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet https://mxnet.apache.org/ Repository: Website: Apache Beam A unified programming model https://github.com/apache/beam https://beam.apache.org/ Repository: Website: Fastlane A build and release automaton for iOS and Android apps https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane https://fastlane.tools/ Repository: Website: Kubernetes Website and Documentation A repository for the Kubernetes website and documentation https://github.com/kubernetes/website https://kubernetes.io Repository: Website: Ruby on Rails A web-application framework https://github.com/rails/rails https://rubyonrails.org/ Repository: Website: Zulip Team chat software https://github.com/zulip/zulip https://zulipchat.com/ Repository: Website: Laravel A web application framework https://github.com/laravel/framework https://laravel.com/ Repository: Website: Baidu PaddlePaddle Baidu’s deep learning framework https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle http://www.paddlepaddle.org/ Repository: Website: Gatsby A web application framework https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby https://www.gatsbyjs.org/ Repository: Website: Rust Crate Registry Rust’s community package registry https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index https://crates.io/ Repository: Website: Nintendo 3DS Custom Firmware A complete guide to 3DS custom firmware https://github.com/hacks-guide/Guide_3DS https://3ds.hacks.guide/ Repository: Website: TiDB A NewSQL database https://github.com/pingcap/tidb https://pingcap.com Repository: Website: Angular CLI CLI tool for Angular, a Google web application framework https://github.com/angular/angular-cli https://cli.angular.io/ Repository: Website: MAPS.ME Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS and Android https://github.com/mapsme/omim https://maps.me/ Repository: Website: Eclipse Che A cloud IDE for Eclipse https://github.com/eclipse/che http://www.eclipse.org/che/ Repository: Website: Brave Browser A browser with native BAT cryptocurrency https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop https://www.brave.com/ Repository: Website: Patchwork A repository to learn Git https://github.com/jlord/patchwork http://jlord.us/patchwork/ Repository: Website: Angular Material Component infrastructure and Material Design components for Angular, a Google web application framework https://github.com/angular/components https://material.angular.io/ Repository: Website: Python Programming language https://github.com/python/cpython https://www.python.org/ Repository: Website: Space Station 13 A round-based roleplaying game https://github.com/vgstation-coders/vgstation13 http://ss13.moe/ Repository: Website: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead A turn-based survival game https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA http://cataclysmdda.org/ Repository: Website: Material-UI React components that implement Google’s Material Design https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui https://material-ui.com/ Repository: Website: Ionic A Progressive Web Apps development framework https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic https://ionicframework.com/ Repository: Website: Oppia A tool for collaboratively building interactive lessons https://github.com/oppia/oppia https://www.oppia.org Repository: Website: Alluxio A virtual distributed storage system https://github.com/Alluxio/alluxio https://www.alluxio.io/ Repository: Website: None XX Net A Chinese web proxy and anti-censorship tool https://github.com/XX-net/XX-Net Repository: Website: Microsoft .NET CLI A CLI tool for .NET https://github.com/dotnet/cli https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/ [1] The explanation of the calculation of the simplified version is at the . 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