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December 2015

Permanent archive for December 2015, ranking tracked GitHub repositories by stars gained during that calendar month from GitStarClub's precomputed ranking data.

Answer capsule

As of June 21, 2026, December 2015 GitHub Star Rankings ranks tracked GitHub repositories by stars gained in the selected period. swiftlang/swift leads with +25.8k stars, followed by freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp and DopplerHQ/awesome-interview-questions. GitStarClub generates this visible ranking from GitStarClub's precomputed ranking and repository data, without runtime search, a database, or AI. - GitStarClub

Data as of
June 21, 2026
Source
GitStarClub

December 2015

In December 2015, swiftlang/swift led GitHub with +25,777 stars, ahead of freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp and DopplerHQ/awesome-interview-questions. freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp grew fastest, up 35%. 7 repositories first crossed 10,000 stars (e.g. animate-css/animate.css, FortAwesome/Font-Awesome).

Daily movement

Most stars added

December 2015 GitHub repositories by stars gained

  1. 1
    +25.8kSwift
  2. 2
    +12.5kTypeScript
  3. 4
    +5.2kJavaScript
  4. 5
    koel/koel17.2k
    +5.0kPHP
  5. 6
    +3.6kPython
  6. 7
    +3.6kUnknown
  7. 8
    +3.3kJavaScript
  8. 9
    +3.2kMarkdown
  9. 11
    +2.4kJavaScript
  10. 12
    +2.3kUnknown
  11. 13
    +2.3kMarkdown
  12. 14
    +2.2kC++
  13. 15
    +2.1kJavaScript
  14. 16
    +2.0kTypeScript
  15. 17
    +2.0kObjective-C
  16. 18
    +1.9kC++

Fastest growth

December 2015 GitHub repositories by growth rate

  1. 1
    +35.1%TypeScript
  2. 2
    +9.9%Unknown
  3. 3
    +8.2%C++
  4. 4
    +6.5%MDX
  5. 5
    +3.2%Unknown

Newcomers

December 2015 GitHub repositories crossing 10k stars

  1. 10k crossing day: Dec 8, 2015CSS
  2. 10k crossing day: Dec 2, 2015JavaScript
  3. 10k crossing day: Dec 5, 2015JavaScript
  4. moby/moby71.7k
    10k crossing day: Dec 1, 2015Go
  5. 10k crossing day: Dec 4, 2015Swift
  6. 10k crossing day: Dec 25, 2015Unknown
  7. 10k crossing day: Dec 11, 2015Vim Snippet

Complete ranking

Complete December 2015 GitHub repository rankings

  1. 1
    +25.8kSwift
  2. 2
    +12.5kTypeScript
  3. 4
    +5.2kJavaScript
  4. 5
    koel/koel17.2k
    +5.0kPHP
  5. 6
    +3.6kPython
  6. 7
    +3.6kUnknown
  7. 8
    +3.3kJavaScript
  8. 9
    +3.2kMarkdown
  9. 11
    +2.4kJavaScript
  10. 12
    +2.3kUnknown
  11. 13
    +2.3kMarkdown
  12. 14
    +2.2kC++
  13. 15
    +2.1kJavaScript
  14. 16
    +2.0kTypeScript
  15. 17
    +2.0kObjective-C
  16. 18
    +1.9kC++
  17. 19
    react/react246.0k
    +1.8kJavaScript
  18. 21
    +1.7kJavaScript
  19. 22
    +1.7kC++
  20. 23
    +1.7kTypeScript
  21. 24
    tqdm/tqdm31.2k
    +1.6kPython
  22. 26
    +1.6kSwift
  23. 27
    vuejs/vue209.9k
    +1.6kTypeScript
  24. 28
    +1.5kUnknown
  25. 29
    +1.5kMDX
  26. 31
    +1.4kC++
  27. 32
    +1.3kTypeScript
  28. 33
    atom/atom60.8k
    +1.3kJavaScript
  29. 34
    +1.2kJavaScript
  30. 35
    +1.2kShell
  31. 36
    +1.2kJavaScript
  32. 37
    php/php-src40.2k
    +1.1kC
  33. 38
    +1.1kJavaScript
  34. 39
    d3/d3113.1k
    +1.1kShell
  35. 40
    +1.1kDart
  36. 41
    +1.1kSwift
  37. 42
    +1.0kC
  38. 43
    +1.0kClojure
  39. 44
    nodejs/node117.9k
    +1.0kJavaScript
  40. 45
    +1.0kTypeScript
  41. 46
    +1.0kCSS
  42. 47
    +993Unknown
  43. 48
    +991TypeScript
  44. 49
    +988JavaScript
  45. 50
    +956JavaScript
  46. 51
    +948JavaScript
  47. 52
    +943Objective-C
  48. 53
    +903Python
  49. 54
    +894C
  50. 55
    +891JavaScript
  51. 56
    golang/go134.8k
    +888Go
  52. 57
    +884TypeScript
  53. 58
    +883JavaScript
  54. 59
    Tencent/weui27.4k
    +882HTML
  55. 60
    +879Swift
  56. 61
    +844Vim Snippet
  57. 62
    +819Unknown
  58. 63
    +816Swift
  59. 64
    moby/moby71.7k
    +815Go
  60. 65
    babel/babel44.0k
    +814TypeScript
  61. 66
    +807HTML
  62. 68
    +785Python
  63. 69
    +782Unknown
  64. 70
    +767C++
  65. 71
    +762JavaScript
  66. 72
    +760Java
  67. 73
    +757Swift
  68. 74
    +749Unknown
  69. 75
    +746Blade
  70. 76
    +737TypeScript
  71. 77
    +737Python
  72. 78
    +706TypeScript
  73. 79
    +699JavaScript
  74. 80
    +695JavaScript
  75. 81
    gogs/gogs47.6k
    +683Go
  76. 82
    +681Unknown
  77. 85
    mojs/mojs18.7k
    +669CoffeeScript
  78. 87
    gulpjs/gulp33.0k
    +666JavaScript
  79. 88
    +663TypeScript
  80. 89
    +658TypeScript
  81. 90
    +656Kotlin
  82. 91
    +655Python
  83. 92
    +653Unknown
  84. 93
    +652Unknown
  85. 94
    nwjs/nw.js41.2k
    +642JavaScript
  86. 95
    google/guava51.5k
    +640Java
  87. 96
    +638Kotlin
  88. 97
    +632Unknown
  89. 98
    +631JavaScript
  90. 99
    +630JavaScript
  91. 100
    +625HTML

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Frequently asked questions

What does December 2015 GitHub Star Rankings rank?

As of June 21, 2026, December 2015 GitHub Star Rankings ranks tracked GitHub repositories by stars gained in the selected period.

Which repository leads December 2015 GitHub Star Rankings?

swiftlang/swift leads December 2015 GitHub Star Rankings with +25.8k stars.

Who follows swiftlang/swift in December 2015 GitHub Star Rankings?

freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp appears next in the visible ranking with +12.5k stars.

Does December 2015 GitHub Star Rankings use live database queries?

No. GitStarClub renders December 2015 GitHub Star Rankings from GitStarClub's precomputed ranking and repository data.