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PowderworksCode/headstart

Start dependent crates before their dependencies finish type-checking

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How fast PowderworksCode/headstart is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 30 – Oct 21, 2026

Stars +157 in 22 days

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Forks +4 in 22 days

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Merged PRs 6 in 22 days

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Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
DayStars gainedForks gainedMerged PRs
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+0+02
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+0+01
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+0+01
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+0+00
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+33+21
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+19+00
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+2+00
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+1+00
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+0+00
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+0+00
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+0+00
Sun, Oct 11, 2026+0+00
Mon, Oct 12, 2026+0+00
Tue, Oct 13, 2026+1+00
Wed, Oct 14, 2026+0+00
Thu, Oct 15, 2026+48+20
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+27+00
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+14+00
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+2+00
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+6+00
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+2+01
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+2+00
Total+157+46
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  1. Oct 101 post
    • Rust builds are slow because metadata is emitted too late in the pipeline. Emit it early, parallelize harder, check twice as fast. Boring fix, huge impact.

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  2. Oct 81 post
    • headstart makes cargo check up to 54% faster on 16 cores, across 13 Rust projects including rust-analyzer and bevy. Crates compile against a dependency's interface before its bodies finish checking.…

      Read full on X, posted by @anishkargaonkar

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  3. Oct 43 posts4 posts
    • Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children (

      Read full on X, posted by @betterhn50

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    • Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast

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    • Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast

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    • Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast

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