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Software and developer tools rankings: the complete guide to 84 live Top 10s

Every software and developer tools ranking on Top10Earth in one place: what each measures, who is number one today, where the data comes from and how often it refreshes.

Software and developer tools on Top10Earth is 84 live rankings, each one a single metric from a named public source, refreshed on its own schedule and kept forever as snapshots. Repositories, packages, languages and the tools developers use. The newest snapshot in the category was captured on 2026-11-02. tensorflow/tensorflow tops more of these rankings than anyone else (4 lists), followed by morluto/rea (3), commander (2), public-apis/public-apis (2) and flutter/flutter (2).

The rankings at a glance

  • 84 rankings currently published in software and developer tools.
  • Refresh cadence: 6 weekly and 78 daily.
  • Sources: GitHub (77 rankings) and npm registry (7 rankings).
  • Snapshots kept: 468 across the category, every one of them still browsable.

Who is number one in software and developer tools

The current leader of every ranking, with the value that put them there and the capture date:

Rankings to start with

These have the longest snapshot history, so their rank-history charts show the most movement:

What moved recently

Rank changes detected in the last 30 days across software and developer tools:

Where the data comes from

  • GitHub, used by 77 rankings. Star counts from the GitHub API.
  • npm registry, used by 7 rankings. Download counts from the npm registry API.

Every ranking page states its metric definition, the source's own caveats and the capture date, and links to the original dataset. Top10Earth never estimates or edits a value. Each number is fetched from its source on a schedule, hashed, stored and ranked by software, then checked by a quality gate before it is published. If a refresh fails that gate the previous snapshot stays live and a person looks at why. Every past snapshot is kept, which is what makes the rank-history charts on each ranking page possible.

Play software and developer tools as a quiz

Each ranking has a quiz: three minutes to name the top 10, with forgiving spelling and a shareable result card. Ten new quizzes are picked in every category each day on the quizzes page, and every past day stays playable.

Every software and developer tools ranking

Questions about software and developer tools rankings

How many software and developer tools rankings are there?

84 live rankings, each with its own quiz, history chart and methodology notes.

Who leads the most software and developer tools rankings?

tensorflow/tensorflow, at #1 in 4 rankings as of 2026-11-02.

How often do these rankings update?

6 refresh weekly and 78 refresh daily. A refresh only publishes if it passes the quality gate.

Are the rankings opinions?

No. Each is one metric from one named public source at one time, ranked by software. They are useful comparisons, not advice.

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