GitHub Repositories Worth Knowing

This is just a short note I figured I’d compile for my friends who are new to programming and might be looking for examples of code that gets used in the real world.

Educational

• Build Your Own X, tutorials for building your own programs
• computer-science, a “path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!”
• the book of secret knowledge
• Algorithms implemented in Java
• Interviews, a repository for interview prep
• pytudes, Peter Norvig’s collection of “Python programs, usually short, for perfecting particular programming skills”
• awesome-rust, a list of Rust code and resources
• case-studies of tricky Rust code
• cve-rs, memory safety issues in memory-safe Rust
• Linux Bash Commands
• Math as code
• Clone Wars, a list of open source clones of websites like AirBnB, Spotify, YouTube, etc.
• Data Oriented Design resources
• Design resources for developers
• Awesome Compilers, a list of resources for learning about compilers
• A proof of the four color theorem in Coq

Programming Languages

• cpython, the standard implementation of the Python programming language
• Rust
• TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript with types
• roslyn, the .NET compiler for C# and Visual Basic
• qsharp, a quantum development kit (including the Q# programming language)
• Julia, a language for data science
• Carbon, a successor language to C++
• Lean4, a language for code and proof verification
• Nim, a systems language
• Compiler Explorer, the source code for godbolt.org
• Ghidra, the NSA’s reverse-engineering and decompilation program

Web

• React, Facebook’s popular framework for web applications
• Node.js, a JavaScript runtime
• FastAPI, a lightweight and performant API framework in Python
• flask, another Python web framework
• Jekyll, the static site generator I used to build this website
• requests, the HTTP library that is way better than Python’s standard library
• httpx, a Python requests alternative (that I prefer)
• uBlock Origin, an adblocker for Chrome and Firefox

Artificial Intelligence

• TensorFlow, a nearly ubiquitous framework for deep learning
• Keras, another deep learning framework
• PyTorch, yet another deep learning framework
• DeepSeek, a large language model
• Tesseract, the optical character recognizer
• Shan-Shui-Inf, an infinitely generated Chinese landscape painting

Game Development

• Godot, probably the most popular open-source game engine
• Bevy, the most popular game engine written in Rust
• PyGame, a Python game framework
• o3de, Amazon’s Open 3D Engine and successor to Lumberyard
• NonEuclidean, an engine for rendering non-Euclidean worlds

Games and Mods

• Amnesia, the Dark Descent
• OpenMW, a complete rewrite of Morrowind’s game engine
• ModOrganizer, a mod manager
• LOOT, a mod load order optimizer for Bethesda games
• sm64, a decompilation of Super Mario 64
• DeSmuME, a Nintendo DS emulator
• PKHeX, a Pokemon ROM save editor
• WorldEdit, a mod for Minecraft world editing
• Amulet, a Minecraft world editor

Embedded, Operating Systems, and Emulation

• Proton, Steam’s fork of wine for playing Windows games on Linux
• NVIDIA’s open Linux GPU kernel modules
• ZealOS, a fork of Terry A. Davis’s TempleOS
• undelete_jpg for recovering JPGs from SD cards and hard drives

Graphics

• blender, 3d rendering and model editing software
• manim, a framework for rendering math videos (made and used by 3blue1brown)
• [](https://github.com/google/model-viewer), a Google framework for viewing interactive 3D models
• filament, a cross-platform Google rendering engine
• glitch-this, which creates glitchy effects in GIFs and images

Libraries

• NumPy, a Python library for scientific computing
• Pandas, a Python library for working with data sets
• Scikit-Learn, a Python library for machine learning
• best, a C++ standard library alternative by my friend Miguel
• imgui, a C++ UI library
• folly, a C++ library used extensively at Facebook
• MathSharp, a C# linear algebra library
• bullet3, a bullet physics SDK

Tooling

• git, the version control system GitHub runs on
• Visual Studio Code, a text editor (that I use)
• pyenv for managing Python environments
• dagger, a dependency injector by Google
• guice, another dependency injection framework by Google (“Ideally, the language itself would provide most of the same features, but until such a language comes along, we have Guice.”)
• Chaos Monkey, a Netflix framework for simulating random outages
• kubethanos, for killing half of randomly selected Kubernetes pods
• hypothesis for property testing in Python

Miscellaneous

• Apollo 11’s guidance computer code
• Calculator, the calculator that ships with Windows
• PowerToys, utilities for Windows
• Mastodon, the decentralized social network
• Signal’s Android app
• typst, a LaTeX alternative
• LaTeX-Workshop, a VSCode plugin for editing and compiling LaTeX
• Quiver, a TeX diagram editor
• Iosevka, a typeface for programming
• redis, a key-value database and cache
• TypeSense, an ElasticSearch alternative
• TipToe, a private web search engine (Paper)