Awesome Rust

A curated list of Rust code and resources.

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Applications

See also Rust — Production organizations running Rust in production.

alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU enhanced terminal emulator
Arti — An implementation of Tor. (So far, it's a not-very-complete client. But watch this space!)
asm-cli-rust — An interactive assembly shell.
cloudflare/boringtun — A Userspace WireGuard VPN Implementation
datafusion — Apache Arrow DataFusion and Ballista query engines
defguard — Enterprise Open Source SSO & WireGuard VPN with real 2FA/MFA
denoland/deno — A secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime built with V8 and Tokio
doprz/dipc — Convert your favorite images and wallpapers with your favorite color palettes/themes
Factotum — A system to programmatically run data pipelines
fcsonline/drill — A HTTP load testing application inspired by Ansible syntax
fend - Arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator
Fractalide — Simple microservices
habitat — A tool created by Chef to build, deploy, and manage applications.
Herd — an experimental HTTP load testing application
hickory-dns — A DNS-server
innernet - An overlay or private mesh network that uses Wireguard under the hood
jedisct1/flowgger — A fast, simple and lightweight data collector
kalker - A scientific calculator that supports math-like syntax with user-defined variables, functions, derivation, integration, and complex numbers. Cross-platform + WASM support
kftray - A cross-platform system tray app for managing and sharing multiple kubectl port-forward configurations.
kytan — High Performance Peer-to-Peer VPN
linkerd/linkerd2-proxy — Ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes.
MaidSafe — A decentralized platform.
mdBook — A command line utility to create books from markdown files
mirrord — Connect your local process and your cloud environment, and run local code in cloud conditions
nicohman/eidolon — A steam and drm-free game registry and launcher for linux and macosx
notty — A new kind of terminal
Pijul — A patch-based distributed version control system
Rauthy — OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management
Rio - A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator powered by WebGPU, focusing to run in desktops and browsers.
rx — Vi inspired Modern Pixel Art Editor
Servo — A prototype web browser engine
shoes - A multi-protocol proxy server
shuttle — A serverless platform.
Sniffnet — Cross-platform application to monitor your network traffic with ease
SWC — super-fast TypeScript / JavaScript compiler
tiny — A terminal IRC client
UpVPN — WireGuard VPN client for macOS, Linux, and Windows built on Tauri.
wasmer — A safe and fast WebAssembly runtime supporting WASI and Emscripten
Weld — Full fake REST API generator
wezterm — A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
WinterJS — A secure JavaScript runtime built with SpiderMonkey and Axum
zellij — A terminal multiplexer (workspace) with batteries included

Audio and Music

dano — A hashdeep/md5tree (but much more) for media files
enginesound — A GUI and command line application used to procedurally generate semi-realistic engine sounds. Featuring in-depth configuration, variable sample rate and a frequency analysis window.
Festival — A local music player/server/client
figsoda/mmtc [mmtc] — Minimal mpd terminal client that aims to be simple yet highly configurable
Glicol — Graph-oriented live coding language, for collaborative musicking in browsers.
ncspot - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
Polaris — A music streaming application.
Spotify Player — A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity.
Spotifyd — An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon.
termusic - Music Player TUI written
WhatBPM — A daily statically generated information resource for electronic dance music producers. Provides daily analytics on the most frequently used values for each EDM genre: tempos, keys, root notes, and so on, using publicly available data such as Beatport and Spotify.

Blockchain

artemis - A simple, modular, and fast framework for writing MEV bots.
beerus - Beerus is a trustless StarkNet Light Client, ⚡blazing fast ⚡
Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision [sv] — A library for working with Bitcoin SV.
cairo - Cairo is the first Turing-complete language for creating provable programs for general computation. This is also the native language of StarkNet, a ZK-Rollup using STARK proofs
cairo-vm — Implementation of the Cairo VM
ChainX — Fully Decentralized Interchain Crypto Asset Management on Polkadot.
CITA — A high performance blockchain kernel for enterprise users.
coinbase-pro-rs — Coinbase pro client, supports sync/async/websocket
Diem — Diem’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.
electrumrs — An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server.
ethabi - Encode and decode smart contract invocations.
ethaddrgen — Custom Ethereum vanity address generator
ethers-rs - Complete Ethereum & Celo library and wallet implementation.
etk - etk is a collection of tools for writing, reading, and analyzing EVM bytecode.
Forest - Filecoin implementation
Foundry - Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development.
Grin — Evolution of the MimbleWimble protocol
hdwallet [hdwallet] — BIP-32 HD wallet related key derivation utilities.
Holochain — Scalable P2P alternative to blockchain for all those distributed apps you always wanted to build.
Hyperlane. Framework for permissionless, modular interoperability. The offchain clients are written in Rust, as well as the smart contracts for Solana VM and CosmWasm.
ibc-rs - Implementation of the Interblockchain Communication protocol
infincia/bip39-rs [bip39] — Implementation of BIP39.
interBTC — Trustless and fully decentralized Bitcoin bridge to Polkadot and Kusama.
Joystream — A user governed video platform
Lighthouse — Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL) Client
madara - Kaioshin is a ⚡ blazing fast ⚡ Starknet sequencer, based on substrate.
mev-inspect-rs - Ethereum MEV Inspector.
near/nearcore — decentralized smart-contract platform for low-end mobile devices.
Nervos CKB — Nervos CKB is a public permissionless blockchain, the common knowledge layer of Nervos network.
opensea-rs - Bindings & CLI to the Opensea API and Contracts.
Parity-Bitcoin — The Parity Bitcoin client
Phala-Network/phala-blockchain — Confidential smart contract blockchain based on Intel SGX and Substrate
polkadot-sdk — The Parity Polkadot Blockchain SDK
revm - Revolutionary Machine (revm) is a fast Ethereum virtual machine.
rust-bitcoin — Library with support for de/serialization, parsing and executing on data structures and network messages related to Bitcoin.
rust-lightning — Bitcoin Lightning library. The main crate,lightning, does not handle networking, persistence, or any other I/O. Thus,it is runtime-agnostic, but users must implement basic networking logic, chain interactions, and disk storage.po on linking crate.
sigma-rust — ErgoTree interpreter and wallet-related features.
Solana — Incredibly fast, highly scalable blockchain using Proof-of-History.
Subspace - The first layer-one blockchain that can fully resolve the blockchain trilemma by simultaneously achieving scalability, security, and decentralization.
Sui — A next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language.
svm-rs - Solidity-Compiler Version Manager.
tendermint-rs - Tendermint blockchain data structures and clients
wagyu [wagyu] — Library for generating cryptocurrency wallets
zcash — Zcash is an implementation of the "Zerocash" protocol.

Database

Atomic-Server [atomic-server] - NoSQL graph database with realtime updates, dynamic indexing and easy-to-use GUI for CMS purposes.
CozoDB - A transactional, relational database that uses Datalog and focuses on graph data and algorithms. Time-travel-capable, and fast!
darkbird [darkbird] - HighConcurrency, RealTime, InMemory storage inspired by erlang mnesia
Databend - A Modern Real-Time Data Processing & Analytics DBMS with Cloud-Native Architecture
DB3 Network — DB3 is a community-driven blockchain layer2 decentralized database network
erikgrinaker/toydb — Distributed SQL database, written as a learning project.
FnckSQL — SQL as a Function for Rust
Garage [garage] — S3-compatible distributed object storage service designed for self-hosting at a small-to-medium scale.
GreptimeDB - An open-source, cloud-native, distributed time-series database with PromQL/SQL/Python supported.
indradb — Graph database
Lucid — High performance and distributed KV store accessible through a HTTP API.
Materialize - Streaming SQL database powered by Timely Dataflow 💲
Neon Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
noria [noria] — Dynamically changing, partially-stateful data-flow for web application backends
ParadeDB - ParadeDB is an Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres, designed for real-time search and analytics.
ParityDB — Fast and reliable database, optimised for read operation
PumpkinDB — an event sourcing database engine
Qdrant - An open source vector similarity search engine with extended filtering support
Qrlew/qrlew [qrlew] - The SQL-to-SQL Differential Privacy layer
RisingWaveLabs/RisingWave - the next-generation streaming database in the cloud
seppo0010/rsedis — A Redis reimplementation.
Skytable — A multi-model NoSQL database
sled — A (beta) modern embedded database
SQLSync — Multiplayer offline-first SQLite
SurrealDB — A scalable, distributed, document-graph database
TerminusDB - open source graph database and document store
tikv — A distributed KV database in Rust
USearch - Similarity Search Engine for Vectors and Strings
vorot93/libmdbx-rs [mdbx-sys] — Bindings for MDBX, a "fast, compact, powerful, embedded, transactional key-value database, with permissive license". This is a fork of mozilla/lmdb-rs with patches to make it work with libmdbx.
WooriDB - General purpose time serial database inspired by Crux and Datomic.

Emulators

See also crates matching keyword 'emulator'.

CHIP-8
- ColinEberhardt/wasm-rust-chip8 — A WebAssembly CHIP-8 emulator.
- starrhorne/chip8-rust — chip8 emulator
Commodore 64
- kondrak/rust64 —
Flash Player
- Ruffle — Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator. Ruffle targets both the desktop and the web using WebAssembly.
Gameboy
- Gekkio/mooneye-gb —
- joamag/boytacean — GameBoy Color emulator that runs on the Web using WebAssembly.
- mohanson/gameboy — Full featured Cross-platform GameBoy emulator. Forever boys!.
- mvdnes/rboy —
Gameboy Advance
- michelhe/rustboyadvance-ng - RustboyAdvance-ng is a Gameboy Advance emulator with desktop, android and WebAssembly support.
GameMaker
- OpenGMK — OpenGMK is a modern rewrite of the proprietary GameMaker Classic engines, providing a full sourceport of the runner, a decompiler, a TASing framework, and libraries for working with gamedata yourself.
IBM PC
- MartyPC — An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust.
Intel 8080 CPU
- mohanson/i8080 — Intel 8080 CPU emulator
iOS
- touchHLE — High-level emulator for iPhone OS apps
iPod
- clicky — A clickwheel iPod emulator (WIP)
NES
- koute/pinky —
- pcwalton/sprocketnes
Nintendo 64
- gopher64 — N64 emulator written in Rust
Nintendo DS
- dust — A Nintendo DS emulator
PlayStation 4
- Obliteration — Experimental PS4 emulator for Windows, macOS and Linux
ZX Spectrum
- rustzx/rustzx —

File manager

broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees (get an overview of a directory, even a big one; find a directory then cd to it; never lose track of file hierarchy while you search; manipulate your files, ...), further reading dystroy.org/broot
joshuto - ranger-like terminal file manager
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
yazi - Blazing fast terminal file manager, based on async I/O.

Games

Graphics

dps/rust-raytracer - An implementation of a very simple raytracer based on Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley.
flxzt/rnote - Sketch and take handwritten notes.
ivanceras/svgbob — converts ASCII diagrams into SVG graphics
KaminariOS/rustracer — A PBR glTF 2.0 renderer based on Vulkan ray-tracing.
Limeth/euclider — A real-time 4D CPU ray tracer
RazrFalcon/resvg — An SVG rendering library.
rodrigorc/papercraft - A tool to unwrap 3D models and create them in paper with scissors and glue.
rustq/vue-skia — Skia based 2d graphics vue rendering library. It is based on Rust to implement software rasterization to perform rendering.
turnage/valora — A library for generative fine art
Twinklebear/tray_rust — A ray tracer
wahn/rs_pbrt — Implements a counterpart to the PBRT book's (3rd edition) C++ code.

Image processing

Imager — Automated image optimization.
shssoichiro/oxipng [oxipng] — Multithreaded PNG optimizer written in Rust.

Industrial automation

locka99/opcua — A OPC UA library.
slowtec/tokio-modbus — A tokio-based modbus library.

Observability

avito-tech/bioyino — A high-performance scalable StatsD compatible server.
openobserve - 10x easier, 140x lower storage cost, high performance, petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative.
OpenTelemetry — OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.
Quickwit-oss/quickwit - Cloud-native and highly cost-efficient search engine for log management.
Scaphandre - A power consumption monitoring agent, to track host and each service power consumption and enable designing systems and applications for more sustainability. Designed to fit any monitoring toolchain (already supports prometheus, warp10, riemann...).
vectordotdev/vector — A High-Performance, Logs, Metrics, & Events Router.

Operating systems

See also A comparison of operating systems written in Rust.

0x59616e/SteinsOS — An OS for armv8-a architecture.
Andy-Python-Programmer/aero — A modern, unix-like operating system following the monolithic kernel design.
DragonOS-Community/DragonOS — An operating system with a self-developed kernel from scratch and Linux compatibility.
redox-os/redox —
thepowersgang/rust_os —
theseus-os/Theseus — A safe-language, single address space and single privilege level OS written from scratch -
tock/tock — A secure embedded operating system for Cortex-M based microcontrollers

Package Managers

helsing-ai/buffrs [buffrs] — A modern package manager for protocol buffers and gRPC architectures.

Payments

hyperswitch — An open source payments orchestrator that lets you connect with multiple payment processors and route payment traffic effortlessly, all with a single API integration

Productivity

ast-grep - A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting.
Bartib [Bartib] - A simple timetracker for the command line
espanso — A cross-platform Text Expander.
eureka — A CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
Furtherance - Time tracking app built with GTK4
illacloud/illa [ILLA Cloud] - Low-code internal tool builder.
LLDAP - Simplified LDAP interface for authentication.
pier-cli/pier — A central repository to manage (add, search metadata, etc.) all your one-liners, scripts, tools, and CLIs
yashs662/rust_kanban [rust-kanban] — A Kanban App for the terminal

Routing protocols

Holo - Holo is a suite of routing protocols designed to support high-scale and automation-driven networks
RustyBGP - BGP

Security tools

AFLplusplus/LibAFL - Advanced Fuzzing Library - Slot your Fuzzer together in Rust! Scales across cores and machines. For Windows, Android, MacOS, Linux, no_std, etc.
arp-scan-rs - A minimalistic ARP scan tool for fast local network scans
cargo-audit - Audit Cargo.lock for crates with security vulnerabilities
cargo-auditable - Make production Rust binaries auditable
cargo-crev - A cryptographically verifiable code review system for the cargo package manager.
cargo-deny - Cargo plugin to help you manage large dependency graphs
Cherrybomb - Stop half-done API specifications with a CLI tool that helps you avoid undefined user behaviour by validating your API specifications.
cotp - Trustworthy, encrypted, command-line TOTP/HOTP authenticator app with import functionality.
entropic-security/xgadget [xgadget] — Fast, parallel, cross-variant ROP/JOP gadget search
epi052/feroxbuster - A simple, fast, recursive content discovery tool.
Inspektor - A database protocol-aware proxy that is used to enforce access policies 👮
kpcyrd/authoscope — A scriptable network authentication cracker
kpcyrd/rshijack — A TCP connection hijacker; rewrite of shijack
kpcyrd/sn0int — A semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager
kpcyrd/sniffglue — A secure multithreaded packet sniffer
ObserverWard — Community based web technologies analysis tool.
Raspirus - User- and resources-friendly signatures-based malware scanner
ripasso — A password manager, filesystem compatible with pass
rustscan/rustscan — Make Nmap faster with this port scanning tool

Social networks

Mastodon
- Rustodon - A Mastodon-compatible, ActivityPub-speaking server.

System tools

ajeetdsouza/zoxide — A fast alternative to cd that learns your habits
atuin [atuin] — Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. Additionally, it provides optional and fully encrypted synchronisation of your history between machines, via an Atuin server.
bandwhich — Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
brocode/fblog — Small command-line JSON Log viewer
bustd - Lightweight process killer daemon to handle out-of-memory scenarios on Linux.
buster/rrun — A command launcher for Linux, similar to gmrun
cantino/mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!
crabz - Multi-threaded compression and decompression CLI tool
cristianoliveira/funzzy — A configurable filesystem watcher inspired by entr
dalance/procs — A modern replacement for 'ps'
ddh — Fast duplicate file finder
diskonaut — Terminal visual disk space navigator
dust — A more intuitive version of du
eza-community/eza — A replacement for 'ls'
fselect — Find files with SQL-like queries
gitui - Blazing fast terminal client for git.
GQL — A SQL like query language to run on .git files.
httm - Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even actual Time Machine backups!)
j0ru/kickoff - Fast and snappy wayland program launcher
Kondo - CLI & GUI tool for deleting software project artifacts and reclaiming disk space
LACT - Linux AMDGPU Controller
lodosgroup/lpm — An experimental system package manager
lotabout/rargs [rargs] — xargs + awk with pattern matching support
lotabout/skim — A fuzzy finder
lsd — An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
Luminarys/synapse — Flexible and fast BitTorrent daemon.
m4b/bingrep — Greps through binaries from various OSs and architectures, and colors them.
mdgaziur/findex - Findex is a highly customizable application finder using GTK3
mitnk/cicada — A bash-like Unix shell
mmstick/concurr — Alternative to GNU Parallel w/ a client-server architecture
mmstick/fontfinder — GTK3 application for previewing and installing Google's fonts
mmstick/tv-renamer — A tv series renaming application with an optional GTK3 frontend.
mxseev/logram — Push log files' updates to Telegram
netscanner - TUI Network Scanner
nickgerace/gfold [gfold] - CLI tool to help keep track of multiple Git repositories
nivekuil/rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm
nushell/nushell - A new type of shell
orhun/kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
orhun/systeroid — A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface
ouch - Painless compression and decompression on the command-line
pkolaczk/fclones — Efficient duplicate file finder and remover
pop-os/popsicle — GTK3 & CLI utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel
pop-os/system76-power — Linux power management daemon (DBus-interface) with CLI tool.
pueue — Manage your long running shell commands.
qarmin/czkawka - Multi-functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images, etc.
redox-os/ion — Next-generation system shell
sharkdp/bat — A cat(1) clone with wings.
sharkdp/fd — A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
sitkevij/hex — A colorized hexdump terminal utility.
supercilex/fuc - Fast cp and rm commands
trippy - A network diagnostic tool
uutils/coreutils — A cross-platform rewrite of the GNU coreutils
watchexec — Executes commands in response to file modifications
XAMPPRocky/tokei — counts the lines of code
ynqa/jnv — interactive JSON filter using jq

Task scheduling

delicate — A lightweight and distributed task scheduling platform.

Text editors

amp — Inspired by Vi/Vim.
emacs-ng — Complementing the C codebase with rust code to introduce new features.
gchp/iota — A simple text editor
helix — A post-modern modal text editor inspired by Neovim/Kakoune.
ilai-deutel/kibi — A tiny (≤1024 LOC) text editor with syntax highlighting, incremental search and more.
Lapce — A modern editor with a backend. Taking inspiration from the discontinued xi-editor.
mathall/rim — Vim-like text editor.
ox — An independent Rust text editor that runs in your terminal!
vamolessa/pepper [pepper] — An opinionated modal editor to simplify code editing from the terminal
zed — A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Text processing

ashvardanian/stringzilla - SIMD-accelerated string search, sort, edit distances, alignments, and generators for x86 AVX2 & AVX-512, and Arm NEON
dominikwilkowski/cfonts [cfonts] — Sexy ANSI fonts for the console
grex — A command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases
jqnatividad/qsv [qsv] — A high performance CSV data-wrangling toolkit. Forked from xsv, with 34+ additional commands & more.
Lisprez/so_stupid_search — A simple and fast string search tool for human beings
Melody - A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more easily readable and maintainable
phiresky/ripgrep-all — ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.
replicadse/complate — An in-terminal text templating tool designed for standardizing messages (like for GIT commits).
ripgrep — combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep
ruplacer — Find and replace text in source files
sd — Intuitive find & replace CLI
sstadick/hck - A faster and more featureful drop in replacement for cut
vishaltelangre/ff — Find files (ff) by name!
whitfin/bytelines [bytelines] — Read input lines as byte slices for high efficiency.
whitfin/runiq — an efficient way to filter duplicate lines from unsorted input.
xsv — A fast CSV command line tool (slicing, indexing, selecting, searching, sampling, etc.)

Utilities

1History — Command line interface to backup Firefox/Chrome/Safari history to one SQLite file
brycx/checkpwn — A Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) command-line utility tool that lets you easily check for compromised accounts and passwords.
Epic Asset Manager — An unofficial client to install Unreal Engine, download and manage purchased assets, projects, plugins and games from the Epic Games Store.
evansmurithi/cloak — A Command Line OTP (One Time Password) Authenticator application.
fcsonline/tmux-thumbs — A lightning fast version of tmux-fingers, copy/pasting tmux like vimium/vimperator.
guoxbin/dtool — A useful command-line tool collection to assist development including conversion, codec, hashing, encryption, etc.
mprocs — TUI for running multiple processes
mrjackwills/oxker [oxker] - A simple tui to view & control docker containers.
nix-community/nix-init — Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more
nix-community/nix-melt — A ranger-like flake.lock viewer
nix-community/nurl [nurl] — Generate Nix fetcher calls from repository URLs
nomino — Batch rename utility for developers
raftario/licensor — write licenses to stdout
rust-parallel - Fast command line app using Tokio to execute commands in parallel. Similar interface to GNU Parallel or xargs.
rustdesk/rustdesk — A remote desktop software, great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk.
rustic-rs/rustic [rustic-rs] — Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups powered by Rust.
sorairolake/qrtool [qrtool] — A utility for encoding and decoding QR code images.
str4d/rage [rage] — Rust implementation of age.
suckit - Recursively visit and download a website's content to your disk.
tversteeg/emplace — Synchronize installed packages on multiple machines
vamolessa/verco [verco] — A simple Git/Hg tui client focused on keyboard shortcuts
vaultwarden — Alternative implementation of the Bitwarden server API written in Rust
warpdotdev/Warp 💲 — Warp is a blazingly-fast modern GPU-accelerated terminal built to make you and your team more productive.
wrestic — 👽 A wrapper around restic.

Video

dertuxmalwieder/yaydl [yaydl] - A simple video downloader
gyroflow/gyroflow - Video stabilization application using gyroscope data
harlanc/xiu — A powerful and secure live server (rtmp/httpflv/hls/relay).
vidmerger — 📼 Merge video & audio files via CLI
xiph/rav1e — The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.

Virtualization

containers/youki — A container runtime
firecracker-microvm/firecracker — A lightweight virtual machine for container workload Firecracker Microvm
kata-containers/kata-containers - A implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs.
tailhook/vagga — A containerization tool without daemons

Web

cfal/tobaru - Port forwarder with allowlists, IP and TLS SNI/ALPN rule-based routing, iptables support, round-robin forwarding (load balancing), and hot reloading.
LemmyNet/lemmy — A link aggregator / reddit clone for the fediverse
libreddit - An alternative private front-end to Reddit
MASQ-Project/Node — MASQ Node software provides a decentralized mesh-network of nodes for global users to access normal internet content - next evolution of tech beyond Tor & VPN
Plume-org/Plume — ActivityPub federating blogging application
Revolt/backend - User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.

Web Servers

cloudflare/pingora - A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services.
emanuele-em/proxelar — A MITM Proxy 🦀! Toolkit for HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and WebSockets with SSL/TLS Capabilities
mu-arch/skyfolder - 🪂 Beautiful HTTP/Bittorrent server without the hassle. Secure - GUI - Pretty - Fast
mufeedvh/binserve — A blazingly fast static web server with routing, templating, and security in a single binary you can set up with zero code
orhun/rustypaste — A minimal file upload/pastebin service
ronanyeah/rust-hasura — A demonstration of how a GraphQL server can be used as a remote schema with Hasura
static-web-server — A blazing fast and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. ⚡
svenstaro/miniserve — A small, self-contained cross-platform CLI tool that allows you to just grab the binary and serve some file(s) via HTTP
thecoshman/http — Host These Things Please — A basic http server for hosting a folder fast and simply
TheWaWaR/simple-http-server — simple static http server
wyhaya/see — Static HTTP file server

Development tools

bacon — background rust code checker, similar to cargo-watch
clippy — Rust lints
clog-tool/clog-cli — generates a changelog from git metadata (conventional changelog)
comtrya — A configuration management tool for localhost / dotfiles
create-rust-app — Set up a modern rust+react web app by running one command.
dan-t/rusty-tags — create ctags/etags for a cargo project and all of its dependencies
datanymizer/datanymizer - Powerful database anonymizer with flexible rules
delta — A syntax-highlighter for git and diff output
dotenv-linter — Linter for .env files
envio-cli/envio - A Modern And Secure CLI Tool For Managing Environment Variables
frolic — An API layer to build customer facing dashboards 10x faster
fw — workspace productivity booster
fzf-make [fzf-make] — A command line tool that executes make target using fuzzy finder with preview window.
geiger — A program that list statistics related to usage of unsafe code in a crate and all its dependencies
git-cliff — A highly customizable Changelog Generator that follows Conventional Commit specifications
git-journal — The Git Commit Message and Changelog Generation Framework
hot-lib-reloader — Hot reload Rust code
intelli-shell - Bookmark commands with placeholders and search or autocomplete at any time
just — A handy command runner for project-specific tasks
mask — A CLI task runner defined by a simple markdown file
Module Linker — Extension that adds <a> links to references in mod, use and extern crate statements at GitHub.
ptags — A parallel universal-ctags wrapper for git repository
Racer — code completion for Rust
Rust Search Extension — A handy browser extension to search crates and docs in address bar (omnibox).
Rustup — the Rust toolchain installer
scriptisto A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write one file scripts in compiled languages.
typos [typos-cli] — Source code spell checker

Build system

Cargo — the Rust package manager
- cargo-all-features - A configurable subcommand to simplify testing, building and much more for all combinations of features
- cargo-benchcmp — A utility to compare micro-benchmarks
- cargo-bitbake — A cargo extension that can generate BitBake recipes utilizing the classes from meta-rust
- cargo-cache — inspect/manage/clean your cargo cache (~/.cargo//${CARGO_HOME}), print sizes etc
- cargo-check — A wrapper around cargo rustc -- -Zno-trans which can be helpful for running a faster compile if you only need correctness checks
- cargo-commander — A subcommand for cargo to run CLI commands similar to how the scripts section in package.json works
- cargo-count — lists source code counts and details about cargo projects, including unsafe statistics
- cargo-deb — Generates binary Debian packages
- cargo-deps — build dependency graphs
- cargo-do — run multiple cargo commands in a row
- cargo-ebuild — cargo extension that can generate ebuilds using the in-tree eclasses
- cargo-edit — allows you to add and list dependencies by reading/writing to your Cargo.toml file from the command line
- cargo-generate A generator of a rust project by leveraging a pre-existing git repository as a template.
- cargo-graph — updated fork of cargo-dot with additional features. Unmaintained, see cargo-deps
- cargo-info — queries crates.io for crates details from command line
- cargo-license — A cargo subcommand to quickly view the licenses of all dependencies.
- cargo-limit — Cargo with less noise: warnings are skipped until errors are fixed, Neovim integration, etc.
- cargo-make — Task runner and build tool.
- cargo-modules — A cargo plugin for showing a tree-like overview of a crate's modules.
- cargo-multi — runs specified cargo command on multiple crates
- cargo-outdated — displays when newer versions of Rust dependencies are available, or out of date
- cargo-rdme [cargo-rdme] — Cargo subcommand to create your README from your crate’s documentation.
- cargo-release — tool for releasing git-managed cargo project, build, tag, publish, doc and push
- cargo-script — lets people quickly and easily run Rust "scripts" which can make use of Cargo's package ecosystem
- cargo-udeps [cargo-udeps] — find unused dependencies
- cargo-update — cargo subcommand for checking and applying updates to installed executables
- cargo-watch — utility for cargo to compile projects when sources change
- dtolnay/cargo-expand — Expand macros in your source code
CMake
- Devolutions/CMakeRust — useful for integrating a Rust library into a CMake project
- SiegeLord/RustCMake — an example project showing usage of CMake with Rust
Fleet [fleet-rs] - The blazing fast build tool for Rust.
GitHub actions
- icepuma/rust-action — rust github action
- peaceiris/actions-mdbook — GitHub Actions for mdBook
Nix
- nix-community/fenix — Rust toolchains and rust analyzer nightly for nix

Debugging

GDB
- gdbgui — Browser based frontend for gdb to debug C, C++, Rust, and go.
LLDB
- CodeLLDB — A LLDB extension for Visual Studio Code.

Deployment

Docker
- emk/rust-musl-builder — Docker images for compiling static Rust binaries using musl-libc and musl-gcc, with static versions of useful C libraries
- kpcyrd/mini-docker-rust — An example project for very small rust docker images
- liuchong/docker-rustup — A multiple version (with musl tools) Rust Docker image
- LukeMathWalker/cargo-chef - A tool and pre-built images for caching compiling remote dependencies between Docker builds.
- rust-cross/rust-musl-cross — Docker images for compiling static Rust binaries using musl-cross
- rust-lang-nursery/docker-rust — the official Rust Docker image
Heroku
- emk/heroku-buildpack-rust — A buildpack for Rust applications on Heroku
MarcoIeni/release-plz [release-plz] — Release crates from CI, with changelog generation and semver check.

Embedded

Rust Embedded focuses on improving the end-to-end experience of using Rust in resource-constrained environments and non-traditional platforms. See awesome-embedded-rust for a curated, and more extended list of embedded Rust resources.

Arduino
- avr-rust/ruduino Reusable components for the Arduino Uno.
Cross compiling
- japaric/rust-cross — everything you need to know about cross compiling Rust programs
- japaric/xargo — effortless cross compilation of Rust programs to custom bare-metal targets like ARM Cortex-M
Espressif
- esp-rs home to a number of community projects enabling the use of the Rust programming language on various SoCs and modules produced by Espressif Systems.
Firmware
- oreboot/oreboot — oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust
nRF
- nrf-rs/nrf-hal — A Rust HAL for the nRF family of devices

FFI

See also Foreign Function Interface, The Rust FFI Omnibus (a collection of examples of using code written in Rust from other languages) and FFI examples written in Rust.

C
- mozilla/cbindgen — generates C header files from Rust source files. Used in Gecko for WebRender
- Sean1708/rusty-cheddar — generates C header files from Rust source files
C#
- csbindgen - generates C# bindings for Rust source files
C++
- dtolnay/cxx — Safe interop between Rust and C++
- rust-cpp - Embed C++ code directly in Rust.
- rust-lang/rust-bindgen — A Rust bindings generator
Erlang
- rusterlium/rustler — safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions
Java
- bennettanderson/rjni — use Java from Rust
- drrb/java-rust-example — use Rust from Java
- j4rs — use Java from Rust
- jni — use Rust from Java
- jni-sys — Rust definitions corresponding to jni.h
- rucaja — use Java from Rust
Lua
- jcmoyer/rust-lua53 — Lua 5.3 bindings for Rust
- lilyball/rust-lua — Safe Rust bindings to Lua 5.1
- mlua-rs/mlua — High level Lua 5.4/5.3/5.2/5.1 (including LuaJIT) and Roblox Luau bindings to Rust with async/await support
- tickbh/td_rlua [td_rlua] — Zero-cost high-level lua 5.3 wrapper for Rust
- tomaka/hlua — Rust library to interface with Lua
mruby
- anima-engine/mrusty — mruby safe bindings for Rust
Node.js
- infinyon/node-bindgen - Easy way to generate nodejs module using Rust
- neon-bindings/neon — Rust bindings for writing safe and fast native Node.js modules
- zhangyuang/node-ffi-rs — A module written in Rust and N-API provides interface (FFI) features for Node.js
Objective-C
- SSheldon/rust-objc — Objective-C Runtime bindings and wrapper for Rust
PHP
- phper-framework/phper — The framework that allows us to write PHP extensions using pure and safe Rust whenever possible
Prolog
- mthom/scryer-prolog — Scryer Prolog is a free software ISO Prolog system written in Rust
Python
- dgrunwald/rust-cpython — Python bindings
- getsentry/milksnake — extension for python setuptools that allows you to distribute dynamic linked libraries in Python wheels in the most portable way imaginable.
- PyO3/PyO3 — Rust bindings for the Python interpreter
- RustPython — A Python Interpreter written in Rust
Ruby
- d-unsed/ruru — native Ruby extensions written in Rust
- danielpclark/rutie — native Ruby extensions written in Rust and vice versa
Web Assembly
- rhysd/wain - wain: WebAssembly INterpreter from scratch in Safe Rust with zero dependency
- rustwasm/wasm-bindgen — A project for facilitating high-level interactions between wasm modules and JS.
- rustwasm/wasm-pack — 📦 ✨ pack up the wasm and publish it to npm!

Formatters

dprint — A pluggable and configurable code formatting platform
Prettier Rust — An opinionated Rust code formatter that autofixes bad syntax (Prettier community plugin)
rustfmt — Rust code formatter maintained by the Rust team and included in cargo

IDEs

See also Are we (I)DE yet? and Rust Tools.

Eclipse
- Eclipse Corrosion
Emacs
- emacs-racer — Autocompletion (see also company and auto-complete)
- flycheck-rust — Rust support for Flycheck
- rust-mode — Rust Major Mode
- rustic - Rust development environment for Emacs
gitpod.io — Online IDE with full Rust support based on Rust Language Server
gnome-builder native support for rust and cargo since Version 3.22.2
IntelliJ
- intellij-rust/intellij-rust —
Kakoune
- kakoune-lsp — LSP client. Implemented in Rust and supports rls out of the box.
lapce — Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.
Ride —
Sublime Text
- rust-lang/rust-enhanced — official Rust package
Vim — the ubiquitous text editor
- autozimu/LanguageClient-neovim — LSP client. Implemented in Rust and supports rls out of the box.
- crates.nvim - plugin that helps to managing crates.io dependencies.
- rust.vim — provides file detection, syntax highlighting, formatting, Syntastic integration, and more.
- vim-racer — allows vim to use Racer for Rust code completion and navigation.
Visual Studio
- dgriffen/rls-vs2017 — Rust support for Visual Studio 2017 Preview
- PistonDevelopers/VisualRust — A Visual Studio extension for Rust
Visual Studio Code
- Better TOML - TOML support in vscode
- CodeLLDB — A LLDB extension
- crates — crates is an extension for crates.io dependencies.
- Prettier - Code formatter (Rust) — Opinionated Rust code formatter that autofixes bad syntax (Prettier community plugin)
- rust-analyzer — An alternative rust language server to the RLS

Profiling

Bencher - A suite of continuous benchmarking tools designed to catch performance regressions in CI
bheisler/criterion.rs — Statistics-driven benchmarking library
Bytehound — A memory profiler for Linux
Divan — Simple yet powerful benchmarking library with allocation profiling
ellisonch/rust-stopwatch — A stopwatch library
FlameGraphs
- llogiq/flame —
- mrhooray/torch — generates FlameGraphs based on DWARF Debug Info
sharkdp/hyperfine — A command-line benchmarking tool

Services

deps.rs — Detect outdated or insecure dependencies
docs.rs — Automatic documentation generation of crates

Static analysis

[assert, static]

facebookexperimental/MIRAI — an abstract interpreter operating on Rust's mid-level intermediate representation (MIR)
static_assertions — Compile-time assertions to ensure that invariants are met

Testing

[test, testing]

Code Coverage
- tarpaulin — A code coverage tool
Continuous Integration
- trust — A Travis CI and AppVeyor template to test your Rust crate on 5 architectures and publish binary releases of it for Linux, macOS and Windows
Frameworks and Runners
- AlKass/polish — Mini Testing/Test-Driven Framework
- cargo-dinghy - A cargo extension to simplify running library tests and benches on smartphones and other small processor devices.
- cucumber — An implementation of the Cucumber testing framework for Rust. Fully native, no external test runners or dependencies.
- d-e-s-o/test-log [test-log] — A replacement of the #[test] attribute that initializes logging and/or tracing infrastructure before running tests.
- demonstrate — Declarative Testing Framework
- GoogleTest Rust — Powerful test assertion framework based on the C++ test library GoogleTest
- rlt — A universal load testing framework, with real-time tui support.
- rstest — Fixture-based test framework
- speculate — An RSpec inspired minimal testing framework
Mocking and Test Data
- asomers/mockall [mockall] — A powerful mock object library.
- fake-rs — A library for generating fake data
- goldenfile [goldenfile] - A library providing a simple API for goldenfile testing.
- httpmock — HTTP mocking
- mockiato — A strict, yet friendly mocking library for unstable Rust 2018
- mockito — HTTP mocking
- nrxus/faux — A library to create mocks out of structs.
- synth — Generate database data declaratively.
Mutation Testing
- cargo-mutants [cargo-mutants] - Finds inadequately tested code by injecting mutations, no source changes required.
- mutagen [mutagen] — A source-level mutation testing framework (nightly only)
Property Testing and Fuzzing
- proptest — property testing framework inspired by the Hypothesis framework for Python
- quickcheck — A Rust implementation of QuickCheck
- rust-fuzz/afl.rs — A Rust fuzzer, using AFL

Transpiling

BayesWitnesses/m2cgen — A CLI tool to transpile trained classic machine learning models into a native Rust code with zero dependencies.
immunant/c2rust — C to Rust translator and cross checker built atop Clang/LLVM.
jameysharp/corrode — A C to Rust translator written in Haskell.

Libraries

perf-monitor-rs — A toolkit designed to be a foundation for applications to monitor their performance.

Artificial Intelligence

Genetic algorithms

innoave/genevo — Execute genetic algorithm (GA) simulations in a customizable and extensible way.
m-decoster/RsGenetic — Genetic Algorithm library. In maintenance mode.
Martin1887/oxigen — Fast, parallel, extensible and adaptable genetic algorithm library. A example using this library solves the N Queens problem for N = 255 in only few seconds and using less than 1 MB of RAM.
pkalivas/radiate — A customizable parallel genetic programming engine capable of evolving solutions for supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning problems. Comes with complete and customizable implementation of NEAT and Evtree.
willi-kappler/darwin-rs — Evolutionary algorithms

Machine learning

See [Machine learning]

See also About Rust’s Machine Learning Community and Are we learning yet?.

autumnai/leaf — Open Machine Intelligence framework.. Abandoned project. The most updated fork is juice.
burn - A Flexible and Comprehensive Deep Learning Framework.
coreylowman/dfdx — CUDA accelerated machine learning framework that leverages many of Rust's unique features.
huggingface/candle [candle-core]- a minimalist ML framework with a focus on easiness of use and on performance (including GPU support)
huggingface/tokenizers - Hugging Face's tokenizers for modern NLP pipelines (original implementation) with bindings for Python.
LaurentMazare/tch-rs — Bindings for PyTorch.
maciejkula/rustlearn — Machine learning library.
rust-ml/linfa — Machine learning framework.
smartcorelib/smartcore — Machine Learning Library
tensorflow/rust — Bindings for TensorFlow.

OpenAI

64bit/async-openai [async-openai] — Ergonomic Rust bindings for OpenAI API based on OpenAPI spec.
zurawiki/tiktoken-rs [tiktoken-rs] — Library for tokenizing text with OpenAI models using tiktoken.

Astronomy

[astronomy]

cds-astro/aladin-lite - Web application for visualizing spatial and planetary image surveys in different projections
fitsio — fits interface library wrapping cfitsio
flosse/rust-sun [sun] — A rust port of the JS library suncalc
saurvs/astro-rust — astronomy