Awesome Alternatives in Rust

A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust.

If you want to contribute, please read CONTRIBUTING.md.

I renamed the repository to "Awesome Alternatives in Rust". The original name was "Awesome Rewrite It In Rust". For more details, please refer to this issue.

Table of contents

• Applications
  • Container
  • System tools
  • Terminal
  • Text editors
  • Utilities
• Development tools
  • Command runners
  • Linters

Applications

Container

runc

• youki - An experimental container runtime written in Rust

System tools

autojump / z

• zoxide - A smarter cd command for your terminal.

awk

• frawk - an efficient awk-like language

bash/PowerShell/fish

• nushell - An attractive structured shell

cat

• bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

cloc

• loc - Count lines of code quickly.
• tokei - Count your code, quickly.

cut

• choose - A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk

du

• dua - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
• dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust

find

• fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

fzf

• skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!

GNU coreutils

• coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

hexdump

• hexyl - A command-line hex viewer

ls

• exa - A replacement for 'ls'
• lsd - An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
• nat - ls alternative with useful info and a splash of color 🎨

nvm

• fnm - 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
• volta - Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡

ps

• procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

rbenv

• frum - A little bit fast and modern Ruby version manager written in Rust

rm

• rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm

sed

• sad - CLI search and replace | Space Age seD
• sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

time

• hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool

tldr

• navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
• tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

top

• bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
• ytop (no longer maintained) - A TUI system monitor written in Rust

Terminal

tmux

• Zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

Text editors

Vim

• Amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.

Utilities

codemod

• fastmod - A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool

jq

• jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool built with Rust 🦀

Development tools

Command runners

• just - A command runner and partial replacement for make

Linters

ESLint

• deno_lint - Blazing fast linter for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust
• RSLint - A (WIP) Extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript linter and Rust crate

ShellCheck

• Shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter