bazelbuild/bazel has 26k stars and gained +106 of them in the last 30 days, a 0.4% change. It is written in Java, grouped under devtools, released under Apache-2.0. A merged pull request waits a median of 1.2 days from opening to merge, measured on 219 pull requests. Last pushed on 26 Oct 2026.
Star growth per time window: stars gained, growth percentage, the star count at the start of the period, and whether the figure was measured from our own two-hour intraday snapshots, daily snapshots, or GitHub’s rebuilt star history, for the last 6 hours, the last 12 hours, today, the last 7 days, the last 30 days, and the last year. A period with no current measurement is left blank rather than shown as zero.
Period
Stars gained
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Last 6 hours
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Last 12 hours
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Today
+5
0.0%
26k on 25 Oct 2026
Daily snapshots
Last 7 days
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Last measured 24 Oct 2026
Last 30 days
+106
0.4%
25.9k on 27 Sep 2026
Weekly history
Last year
+1.6k
6.4%
24.4k on 26 Oct 2025
Weekly history
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Weekly, from GitHub's stargazers history, over a 30-day window.
Competes with
Repositories in the same collection, of a comparable size (within 5× in stars) and from a different owner, that were discussed in the same threads. Same-owner projects are excluded because they are usually pieces of the same tool, not rivals. A repository also stays out if the two never met in a discussion.
22 Sep 2026First seen on GitHub Trending · rank 7· 244 days later
30 Sep 2026Entered our index· 8 days later
Stars: 25.9k when it entered our index, 26k on the last capture we hold (24 Oct 2026), so +82 in that span. That span is our own measurement window, not a claim about what happened before it.
Its most recent thread before Trending is more than 90 days older than that day, so the two are not the same story and we do not claim lead time.
We hold 56 mentions for it, the oldest dated 16 Sep 2015 and the first written into our database on 24 Oct 2026. Thread dates come from the source, not from when we fetched them.
What the web says
56 items so far: 56 on Hacker News, 0 on Reddit; 0 in the last 7 days, 0 in the last 30. Checked by the pipeline, which re-scans trending repositories every few hours. Last check .
Bazel uses neither of those; Bazel's Starlark interpreter (which is the original Starlark implementation, predating the Go and Rust ones) is written in Java. It hasn't been extracted into a standalone library with a stable API, so only Bazel can really use it. https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/tree/master/src/main/jav...
Chicory seems like it'll be pretty useful. Java doesn't have easy access to the platform-specific security mechanisms (seccomp, etc) that are used by native tools to sandbox their plugins, so it's nice to have WebAssembly's well-designed security model in a pure-JVM library. I've used it to experiment with using WebAssembly to extend the Bazel build system (which is written in Java). Currently th…
Where it stands
Every position is against the 59,266 repositories measured today — not global GitHub figures.
Stars today
#4,275top 8% of 59,266 measured today
Java
#109top 3% of 3,842
Age
12.4 yrolder than 91% of the corpus
Watchers / stars
2.3%median at this size 1.7%
Pull requests
498busier than 99% of the corpus
429 commits in 28 days · release 1 days ago
Reddit (fetched when this page is opened)
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