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Week 40

New developer tools, week of September 28, 2026

That week: 60 new tools on the radar and 1 launch, plus the GitHub projects that grew fastest.

New on the radar

Tools added between September 28, 2026 to October 4, 2026.

Launches this week

Tools with a launch date in this week.

Fastest rising on GitHub

Repositories created this week with the most stars.

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photocraft

PhotoCraft: An open-source photo editor written from scratch in pure Rust

  • art
  • image-editing
  • image-editing-software
Stars
79.4K
Stars per day
1.7K/day
Forks
14K
Language
Rust
Created
Sep 30, 2026
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Filee

Free, open-source file converter. Convert 263 formats offline by drag & drop — images, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HWP/HWPX, video, audio, e-books and archives. No upload, no Office needed.

  • audio-converter
  • avalonia
  • batch-conversion
Stars
27.2K
Stars per day
589.2/day
Forks
1.6K
Language
C#
Created
Sep 29, 2026
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pdfcraft

PdfCraft: An open-source PDF reader and editor written from scratch in pure Rust

  • document-processing
  • documents
  • pdf
Stars
20.7K
Stars per day
457/day
Forks
7.6K
Language
Rust
Created
Sep 30, 2026
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filmcraft

FilmCraft: An open-source, nonlinear video editor written from scratch in pure Rust

  • art
  • rust
  • video
Stars
18.3K
Stars per day
402.8/day
Forks
7.4K
Language
Rust
Created
Sep 30, 2026
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lightcraft

LightCraft: An open-source non-destructive photo editor written from scratch in pure Rust

  • art
  • photography
  • raw
Stars
16K
Stars per day
352.5/day
Forks
6.1K
Language
Rust
Created
Sep 30, 2026
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vectorcraft

VectorCraft: An open-source vector art tool written from scratch in pure Rust

  • art
  • rust
  • rust-lang
Stars
11.7K
Stars per day
258.6/day
Forks
5.6K
Language
Rust
Created
Sep 30, 2026
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AIHOT

一个自己找热点、自己写日报的网站框架。把信源和精选标准换成你的,它就是你的行业热点站。

  • ai
  • chinese
  • content-curation
Stars
10.7K
Stars per day
227.6/day
Forks
2.5K
Language
TypeScript
Created
Sep 28, 2026
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horizon-rust

horizon

Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 rewritten from scratch in Rust, checked against vanilla with 281 differential harnesses. Get it with the Horizon launcher.

  • differential-testing
  • game-engine
  • gamedev
Stars
9.7K
Stars per day
230.2/day
Forks
1.6K
Language
Rust
Created
Oct 3, 2026
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rehan-remade

universal-modder

Point Claude at any game. Skills, tools and the fal MCP that let Claude Code mod almost any PC game you own: recon, reverse engineering, fal-generated art/3D/audio, in-game testing, showcase videos.

  • age-of-empires
  • claude-code
  • claude-code-plugin
Stars
9.7K
Stars per day
211.9/day
Forks
1.1K
Language
Python
Created
Sep 30, 2026