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, in Rust. (So far, it's a not-very-complete client. But watch this space!)
asm-cli-rust — An interactive assembly shell written in rust.
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
cloudflare/boringtun — A Userspace WireGuard VPN Implementation
datafusion — Apache Arrow DataFusion and Ballista query engines
denoland/deno — A secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime built with V8, Rust, 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 Rust 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
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
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 built for Rust
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, Rust and Axum
zellij — A terminal multiplexer (workspace) with batteries included

Audio and Music

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.
figsoda/mmtc [mmtc] — Minimal mpd terminal client that aims to be simple yet highly configurable
Glicol — Graph-oriented live coding language written in Rust for collaborative musicking in browsers.
ncspot - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
Polaris — A music streaming application.
Spotify TUI — A Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.
Spotifyd — An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon.
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.

Cryptocurrencies

artemis - A simple, modular, and fast framework for writing MEV bots in Rust.
beerus - Beerus is a trustless StarkNet Light Client, ⚡blazing fast ⚡ and powered by Rust 🦀
Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision [sv] — A Rust 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 — Rust 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 in Rust, 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 in Rust.
ethabi - Encode and decode smart contract invocations.
ethaddrgen — Custom Ethereum vanity address generator made in Rust
ethers-rs - Complete Ethereum & Celo library and wallet implementation in Rust.
etk - etk is a collection of tools for writing, reading, and analyzing EVM bytecode.
Forest - Rust Filecoin implementation
Foundry - Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.
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.
ibc-rs - Rust implementation of the Interblockchain Communication protocol
infincia/bip39-rs [bip39] — Rust implementation of BIP39.
interBTC — Trustless and fully decentralized Bitcoin bridge to Polkadot and Kusama.
Joystream — A user governed video platform
Lighthouse — Rust Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL) Client
madara - Kaioshin is a ⚡ blazing fast ⚡ Starknet sequencer, based on substrate and written in Rust 🦀.
mev-inspect-rs - Ethereum MEV Inspector in Rust
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.
Nimiq — Rust implementation of Nimiq node
opensea-rs - Rust 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 — Heterogeneous multi‑chain technology with pooled security
revm - Revolutionary Machine (revm) is a fast Ethereum virtual machine written in rust.
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 written in Rust. 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 — Rust implementation of ErgoTree interpreter and wallet-related features.
Solana — Incredibly fast, highly scalable blockchain using Proof-of-History.
Substrate — Generic modular blockchain template written in Rust
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 - Rust implementation of Tendermint blockchain data structures and clients
wagyu [wagyu] — Rust 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!
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 in Rust, written as a learning project.
GreptimeDB - An open-source, cloud-native, distributed time-series database with PromQL/SQL/Python supported.
indradb — Rust based 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
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
RisingWaveLabs/RisingWave - the next-generation streaming database in the cloud
seppo0010/rsedis — A Redis reimplementation in Rust
Skytable — A multi-model NoSQL database
sled — A (beta) modern embedded database
SurrealDB — A scalable, distributed, document-graph database
TerminusDB - open source graph database and document store
tikv — A distributed KV database in Rust
vorot93/libmdbx-rs [mdbx-sys] — Rust 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 written with Rust
- starrhorne/chip8-rust — Yet another rust chip8 emulator
Commodore 64
- kondrak/rust64 —
Flash Player
- Ruffle — Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language. Ruffle targets both the desktop and the web using WebAssembly.
Gameboy
- Gekkio/mooneye-gb —
- joamag/boytacean — GameBoy Color emulator written in Rust 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.
Intel 8080 CPU
- mohanson/i8080 — Intel 8080 cpu emulator by Rust
iOS
- touchHLE — High-level emulator for iPhone OS apps
iPod
- clicky — A clickwheel iPod emulator (WIP)
NES
- koute/pinky —
- pcwalton/sprocketnes
Nintendo DS
- dust — A Nintendo DS emulator written in Rust
PlayStation 4
- Obliteration — Experimental PS4 emulator written in Rust for Windows, macOS and Linux
ZX Spectrum
- rustzx/rustzx —

Games

Graphics

dps/rust-raytracer - An implementation of a very simple raytracer based on Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley in Rust.
ivanceras/svgbob — converts ASCII diagrams into SVG graphics
KaminariOS/rustracer — A PBR glTF 2.0 renderer based on Vulkan ray-tracing, written in Rust.
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

Image processing

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

Industrial automation

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

Observability

avito-tech/bioyino — A high-performance scalable StatsD compatible server.
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.
redox-os/redox —
thepowersgang/rust_os —
theseus-os/Theseus — A safe-language, single address space and single privilege level OS written from scratch in pure Rust -
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

Bartib [Bartib] - A simple timetracker for the command line
espanso — A cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
eureka — A CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
Furtherance - Time tracking app built with Rust and GTK4
illacloud/illa [ILLA Cloud] - Low-code internal tool builder written with Rust.
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

Routing protocols

Holo - Holo is a suite of routing protocols designed to support high-scale and automation-driven networks
RustyBGP - BGP implemented in the Rust Programming Language

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.
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 (Rust) 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.
epi052/feroxbuster - A simple, fast, recursive content discovery tool written in Rust (
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, rust 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.
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 in Rust

System tools

ajeetdsouza/zoxide — A fast alternative to cd that learns your habits
Alonely0/Voila — Voila is a domain-specific language launched through CLI tool for operating with files and directories in massive amounts in a fast & reliable way.
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' written by Rust
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 written in Rust.
GQL — A SQL like query language to run on .git files.
j0ru/kickoff - Fast and snappy wayland program launcher
Kondo - CLI & GUI tool for deleting software project artifacts and reclaiming disk space
lodosgroup/lpm — An experimental system package manager
lotabout/rargs [rargs] — xargs + awk with pattern matching support
lotabout/skim — A fuzzy finder in pure rust
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 written in Rust and uses 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
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/cakawka - 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 Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils [
watchexec — Executes commands in response to file modifications
XAMPPRocky/tokei — counts the lines of code

Task scheduling

delicate — A lightweight and distributed task scheduling platform written in rust.

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 written in Rust. Taking inspiration from the discontinued xi-editor.
mathall/rim — Vim-like text editor written in Rust
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

Text processing

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 written in Rust, 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.
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 Rust based GPU-accelerated terminal built to make you and your team more productive.
wrestic — 👽 A wrapper around restic built in rust
yaa110/cb — Command line interface to manage clipboard

Video

dertuxmalwieder/yaydl [yaydl] - A simple video downloader
gyroflow/gyroflow - Video stabilization application using gyroscope data
harlanc/xiu — A powerful and secure live server by pure rust (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 in Rust
firecracker-microvm/firecracker — A lightweight virtual machine for container workload Firecracker Microvm
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

emanuele-em/man-in-the-middle-proxy — 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 Rust 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
frolic — An API layer to build customer facing dashboards 10x faster
fw — workspace productivity booster
geiger — A program that list statistics related to usage of unsafe Rust code in a Rust 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).
rust-lang/rustfix — automatically applies the suggestions made by rustc
Rustup — the Rust toolchain installer
scriptisto A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write one file scripts in compiled languages.

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 Rust 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 of Rust projects
- 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 — Rust 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 Rust 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
- 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
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-unseductable/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.

Atom
- rust-lang/atom-ide-rust — Rust IDE support for Atom, powered by the Rust Language Server (RLS)
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
- kak-lsp/kak-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-tools.nvim - Tools for better development in rust using neovim's builtin lsp
- 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
- rust-lang/rls-vscode — Rust support for Visual Studio Code (supports both RLS and rust-analyzer)

Profiling

Bencher - A suite of continuous benchmarking tools designed to catch performance regressions in CI
bheisler/criterion.rs — Statistics-driven benchmarking library for Rust
Bytehound — A memory profiler for Linux
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 designed for Rust
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
- rstest — Fixture-based test framework for Rust
- speculate — An RSpec inspired minimal testing framework for Rust
Mocking and Test Data
- asomers/mockall [mockall] — A powerful mock object library for Rust.
- 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 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 Rust. 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 with Rust

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 spearow/juice.
burn-rs/burn - A Flexible and Comprehensive Deep Learning Framework in Rust.
coreylowman/dfdx — CUDA accelearted 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 written in Rust (original implementation) with bindings for Python.
LaurentMazare/tch-rs — Rust language bindings for PyTorch.
maciejkula/rustlearn — Machine learning crate for Rust.
rust-ml/linfa — Machine learning framework.
smartcorelib/smartcore — Machine Learning Library In Rust
tensorflow/rust — Rust language bindings for TensorFlow.

OpenAI

64bit/async-openai [async-openai] — Ergonomic Rust bindings for OpenAI API based on OpenAPI spec.
zurawiki/tiktoken-rs [tiktoken-rs] — Rust 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 for Rust