Awesome Rust

A curated list of Rust code and resources.

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Table of contents

• Applications
  • Audio
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Database
  • Emulators
  • Games
  • Graphics
  • Industrial automation
  • Operating systems
  • Productivity
  • Security tools
  • System tools
  • Text editors
  • Text processing
  • Utilities
  • Video
  • Virtualization
  • Window managers
  • Web
  • Web Servers
• Development tools
  • Build system
  • Debugging
  • Deployment
  • Embedded
  • FFI
  • IDEs
  • Pattern recognition
  • Profiling
  • Services
  • Static analysis
  • Testing
  • Transpiling
• Libraries
  • Artificial Intelligence
    • Genetic algorithms
    • Machine learning
  • Astronomy
  • Asynchronous
  • Audio
  • Authentication
  • Automotive
  • Bioinformatics
  • Caching
  • Cloud
  • Command-line
  • Compression
  • Computation
  • Concurrency
  • Configuration
  • Cryptography
  • Database
  • Data processing
  • Data structures
  • Data visualization
  • Date and time
  • Distributed systems
  • Email
  • Encoding
  • Filesystem
  • Game development
  • Geospatial
  • Graphics
  • Graph processing
  • GUI
  • Image processing
  • Industrial automation
  • Language specification
  • Logging
  • Macro
  • Markup language
  • Mobile
  • Network programming
  • Parsing
  • Peripherals
  • Platform specific
  • Scripting
  • Template engine
  • Text processing
  • Text search
  • Virtualization
  • Web programming
• Registries
• Resources
• License

Applications

See also Rust — Production(organizations running Rust in production).

• alacritty — A cross-platform, GPU enhanced terminal emulator
• asm-cli-rust — interative assembly shell written in rust.
• AnderEnder/s3find-rs — A command line utility to walk an Amazon S3 hierarchy, an analog of find for Amazon S3
• andschwa/rust-genetic-algorithm — A genetic algorithm for academic benchmark problems
• cloudflare/boringtun — A Userspace WireGuard VPN Implementation
• ivanceras/diwata — A database administration tool for postgresql
• linkerd/linkerd2-proxy — Ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes.
• darrint/device-blocker — Limit screen time to children's various mobile devices by blocking internet access on the family Wifi router.
• dlecan/generic-dns-update — A tool to update DNS zonefiles with your IP address
• Factotum — A system to programmatically run data pipelines
• fcsonline/drill — A HTTP load testing application inspired by Ansible syntax
• Fractalide — Simple Rust Microservices
• habitat — An tool created by Chef to build, deploy, and manage applications.
• Herd — an experimental HTTP load testing application
• intecture/api — an API-driven server management and configuration tool
• jedisct1/flowgger — A fast, simple and lightweight data collector
• kbknapp/docli — A command line utility for managing DigitalOcean infrastructure
• limonite — static blog/website generator
• 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
• rsign — A simple command-line tool used to generate/sign/verify digital signatures designed to be compatible with Minisign
• Sandstorm Collections App
• Servo — A prototype web browser engine
• trust-dns — A DNS-server
• Weld — Full fake REST API generator
• kytan - High Performance Peer-to-Peer VPN

Audio

• indiscipline/zrtstr — A command line utility for checking if stereo wav files are faux-stereo (i.e. have identical channels) and converting such files to mono.

Cryptocurrencies

• Joystream — A user governed video platform.
• Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision — A Rust library for working with Bitcoin SV .
• ethaddrgen — Custom Ethereum vanity address generator made in Rust
• hdwallet — BIP-32 HD wallet related key derivation utilities.
• nearprotocol/nearcore — decentralized smart-contract platform for low-end mobile devices.
• coinbase-pro-rs — Coinbase pro client in Rust, supports sync/async/websocket
• Grin — Evolution of the MimbleWimble protocol
• Substrate — Generic modular blockchain template written in Rust
• Polkadot — Heterogeneous multi‑chain technology with pooled security
• Parity-Ethereum — Fast, light, and robust Ethereum client
• Parity-Bridge — Bridge between any two ethereum-based networks
• Parity-Bitcoin — The Parity Bitcoin client
• Parity-Zcash — Rust implementation of the Zcash protocol
• rust-cardano — Rust implementation of Cardano primitives, helpers, and related applications
• cardano-cli — Cardano Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Nervos CKB — Nervos CKB is a public permissionless blockchain, the common knowledge layer of Nervos network.
• ChainX — Fully Decentralized Interchain Crypto Asset Management on Polkadot.
• rbtc — Convert BTC to any currency and vice-versa.
• wagu — Generate a wallet for any cryptocurrency

Database

• indradb — Rust based graph database
• noria — Dynamically changing, partially-stateful data-flow for web application backends
• PumpkinDB — an event sourcing database engine
• seppo0010/rsedis — A Redis reimplementation in Rust
• ParityDB — Fast and reliable database, optimised for read operation
• tikv — A distributed KV database in Rust

Emulators

See also crates matching keyword 'emulator'.

• Commodore 64
  • kondrak/rust64 —
• Gameboy
  • Gekkio/mooneye-gb —
  • mvdnes/rboy —
  • NivenT/RGB —
• NES
  • iamsix/oxidenes —
  • koute/pinky —
  • pcwalton/sprocketnes —
• Playstation
  • simias/rustation —
• ZX Spectrum
  • pacmancoder/rustzx —
• Virtual Boy
  • emu-rs/rustual-boy —
• Emulator Development tools
  • SNES
    • ioncodes/snesutilities — ROM analyser/extractor

Games

See also Games Made With Piston.

• lifthrasiir/angolmois-rust — A minimalistic music video game which supports the BMS format
• swatteau/sokoban-rs — A Sokoban implementation
• Zone of Control — A turn-based hexagonal strategy game
• rhex — hexagonal ascii roguelike
• citybound — The city sim you deserve
• ozkriff/zemeroth — A small 2D turn-based hexagonal strategy game
• rsaarelm/magog — A roguelike game in Rust
• cristicbz/rust-doom — A renderer for Doom, may progress to being a playable game
• Thinkofname/rust-quake — Quake map renderer in Rust
• aleshaleksey/TGWM — An RPG with turned-based mechanics (work in progress)
• garkimasera/rusted-ruins — Extensible open world rogue like game with pixel art
• Veloren — An open-world, open-source multiplayer voxel RPG.

Graphics

• Limeth/euclider — A real-time 4D CPU ray tracer
• ivanceras/svgbob — converts ASCII diagrams into SVG graphics
• RazrFalcon/svgcleaner — tidies SVG graphics
• Twinklebear/tray_rust — A ray tracer
• Image processing:
  • spejss/Image-Processing-CLI-in-Rust — CLI for processing images, generating histograms.

Industrial automation

• slowtec/tokio-modbus — A tokio-based modbus library.
• locka99/opcua — A pure rust OPC UA library.
• BiancoRoyal/modbus-iiot-rust — A pure rust modbus library with no or less dependencies.

Operating systems

See also A comparison of operating systems written in Rust.

• redox-os/redox —
• thepowersgang/rust_os —
• tock/tock — A secure embedded operating system for Cortex-M based microcontrollers
• nebulet/nebulet — A microkernel that implements a WebAssembly "usermode" that runs in Ring 0.

Productivity

• eureka — A CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal

Security tools

• arvancloud/libinjection-rs — Rust bindings for libinjection
• kpcyrd/badtouch — A scriptable network authentication cracker
• kpcyrd/rshijack — A TCP connection hijacker, rust rewrite of shijack
• kpcyrd/sniffglue — A secure multithreaded packet sniffer
• kpcyrd/sn0int — A semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager
• Gymmasssorla/anevicon — The most powerful UDP-based load generator, written in Rust

System tools

• brocode/fblog — Small command-line JSON Log viewer
• buster/rrun — A command launcher for Linux, similar to gmrun
• cristianoliveira/funzzy — A configurable filesystem watcher inspired by entr
• ddh — Fast duplicate file finder
• fselect — Find files with SQL-like queries
• k0pernicus/zou — A download accelerator
• lotabout/rargs [rargs] — xargs + awk with pattern matching support
• lotabout/skim — A fuzzy finder in pure rust
• 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/parallel — Reimplementation of GNU Parallel
• mmstick/systemd-manager — A systemd service manager written in Rust using GTK-rs.
• mmstick/tv-renamer — A tv series renaming application with an optional GTK3 frontend.
• Peltoche/lsd — An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
• ogham/exa — A replacement for 'ls'
• pop-os/debrep — APT repository tool for building and managing an APT repo
• 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.
• Ralvke/logram — Push log files' updates to Telegram
• 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.
• m4b/bingrep — Greps through binaries from various OSs and architectures, and colors them.
• 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

Text editors

• gchp/iota — A simple text editor
• mathall/rim — Vim-like text editor written in Rust
• Remacs — A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust.
• xi-editor — A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
• xray — An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor.

Text processing

• TankerHQ/ruplacer — Find and replace text in source files
• ripgrep — combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep
• sd — Intuitive find & replace CLI
• lavifb/todo_r — Find all your TODO notes with one command!
• whitfin/runiq — an efficient way to filter duplicate lines from unsorted input.
• whitfin/bytelines — Read input lines as byte slices for high efficiency.
• vishaltelangre/ff — Find files (ff) by name!
• xsv — A fast CSV command line tool (slicing, indexing, selecting, searching, sampling, etc.)

Utilities

• brycx/checkpwn — A Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) command-line utility tool that lets you easily check for compromised accounts and passwords.
• evansmurithi/cloak — A Command Line OTP (One Time Password) Authenticator application.
• arthrp/consoletimer - Simple timer for your terminal.
• myfreeweb/freepass — The free password manager for power users.
• arthrp/quick-skeleton — Project scaffolding tool, similar to Yeoman and Slush.
• yaa110/rubigo — Golang dependency tool and package manager, written in Rust
• whitfin/s3-concat — A command line tool to concatenate Amazon S3 files remotely using flexible patterns.
• whitfin/s3-meta — A command line tool to gather metadata about your Amazon S3 buckets.
• amar-laksh/workstation — A commandline tool to help you manage your workstation by distancing you from your screen, locking your screen when you aren't there among other things with OPENCV!
• aleshaleksey/AZDice — A dice roll success distribution generator for tabletop homebrewers.
• fcsonline/tmux-thumbs — A lightning fast version of tmux-fingers written in Rust, copy/pasting tmux like vimium/vimperator.

Video

• yuvadm/slingr — A simple CLI for streaming media files over a local network to UPnP media renderers

Virtualization

• firecracker-microvm/firecracker — A lightweight virtual machine for container workload Firecracker Microvm
• oracle/railcar — Docker-like container OCI runtime implementation in Rust
• tailhook/vagga — A containerization tool without daemons

Window managers

• way-cooler/way-cooler — A customizable Wayland compositor (window manager)

Web

• Plume-org/Plume — ActivityPub federating blogging application
• rustlang-cn/ruster — online community in rust for rust community

Web Servers

• thecoshman/http — Host These Things Please — A basic http server for hosting a folder fast and simply
• 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
• TheWaWaR/simple-http-server — simple static http server

Development tools

• clippy — Rust lints
• clog-tool/clog-cli — generates a changelog from git metadata (conventional changelog)
• dan-t/rusty-tags — create ctags/etags for a cargo project and all of its dependencies
• frewsxcv/crate-deps — generates images of dependency graphs for crates hosted on crates.io
• git-journal — The Git Commit Message and Changelog Generation Framework
• rust-lang-nursery/rustfix — automatically applies the suggestions made by rustc
• just — A handy command runner for project-specific tasks
• 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
• rustfmt — A Rust code formatter
• Rustup — the Rust toolchain installer
• Rust Language Server — A server that runs in the background, providing IDEs, editors, and other tools with information about Rust programs
• artifact — the design doc tool made for developers
• semantic-rs — automatic crate publishing
• fw — workspace productivity booster
• tinyrick a basic task dependency tool emphasizing Rust functions over raw shell commands.

Build system

• Cargo — the Rust package manager
  • 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-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-find ^deprecated — Find crates from command line
  • 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-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-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-testify — watches files changes, runs tests and notifies about the result with friendly OS notification
  • cargo-update — cargo subcommand for checking and applying updates to installed executables
  • cargo-watch — utility for cargo to compile projects when sources change
  • liuchong/cargo-x — A very simple third-party cargo subcommand to execute a custom command
  • 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
• Github actions
  • icepuma/rust-github-actions — rust github actions
• Webpack
  • Ralvke/rust-loader — Webpack Rust loader (wasm)

Debugging

• GDB
  • rust-gdb
  • gdbgui — Browser based frontend for gdb to debug C, C++, Rust, and go.
• LLDB
  • lldb_batchmode.py — allows to use LLDB in a way similar to GDB's batch mode.
  • CodeLLDB — A LLDB extension for Visual Studio Code.
• rr
  • rr — rr is a lightweight tool for recording and replaying execution of applications

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
  • messense/rust-musl-cross — Docker images for compiling static Rust binaries using musl-cross
  • rust-lang-nursery/docker-rust — the official Rust Docker image
• Google App Engine
  • DenisKolodin/rust-app-engine — App Engine Rust boilerplate
• Heroku
  • emk/heroku-buildpack-rust — A buildpack for Rust applications on Heroku

Embedded

Rust Embedded

• 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
• Raspberry Pi
  • Ogeon/rust-on-raspberry-pi — instructions for how to cross compile Rust projects for the Raspberry Pi .
• Arduino
  • avr-rust/ruduino ^`^t Reusable components for the Arduino Uno.

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
  • rlhunt/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++
  • rust-lang/rust-bindgen — A Rust bindings generator
• Erlang
  • rusterlium/rustler — safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions
• Haskell
  • mgattozzi/curryrs — Bridge the gap between Haskell and Rust
  • mgattozzi/haskellrs — Rust in Haskell FFI Example
  • mgattozzi/rushs — Haskell in Rust FFI Example
• Java
  • j4rs — use Java from Rust
  • bennettanderson/rjni — use Java from Rust
  • drrb/java-rust-example — use Rust from Java
  • jni — use Rust from Java
  • jni-sys — Rust definitions corresponding to jni.h
  • rucaja — use Java from Rust
  • rawrasaur/rust-jdbc — uses JDBC from Rust Lua
  • jcmoyer/rust-lua53 — Lua 5.3 bindings for Rust
  • kballard/rust-lua — Safe Rust bindings to Lua 5.1
  • tickbh/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
  • neon-bindings/neon — use Rust from Node.js
• Objective-C
  • SSheldon/rust-objc — Objective-C Runtime bindings and wrapper for Rust
• Perl
  • vickenty/mi-rust — Adds support to M::I for building modules with Cargo
  • vickenty/perl-xs — Create Perl XS modules using Rust
• Python
  • getsentry/milksnake — extension for python setuptools that allows you to distribute dynamic linked libraries in Python wheels in the most portable way imaginable.
  • dgrunwald/rust-cpython — Python bindings
  • PyO3/PyO3 — Rust bindings for the Python interpreter
• R
  • rustr/rustr — use Rust from R, and use R in Rust
• Ruby
  • d-unseductable/ruru — native Ruby extensions written in Rust
  • danielpclark/rutie — native Ruby extensions written in Rust and vice versa
  • tildeio/helix — write Ruby classes in Rust
• Web Assembly
  • rustwasm/wasm-pack — 📦 ✨ pack up the wasm and publish it to npm!
  • rustwasm/wasm-bindgen — A project for facilitating high-level interactions between wasm modules and JS.

IDEs

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

• Atom
  • zargony/atom-language-rust
• Eclipse
  • Eclipse Corrosion
  • RustDT —
• Emacs
  • rust-mode — Rust Major Mode
  • flycheck-rust — Rust support for Flycheck
  • emacs-racer — Autocompletion (see also company and auto-complete)
  • lsp-rust — Add rls support to lsp-mode
• 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
• Kakoune
  • ul/kak-lsp — LSP client. Implemented in Rust and supports rls out of the box.
• NetBeans
  • drrb/rust-netbeans
• IntelliJ
  • intellij-rust/intellij-rust —
  • intellij-rust/intellij-toml — basic Toml support
• Ride —
• SolidOak — A simple IDE for Rust, based on GTK+ and Neovim
• Sublime Text
  • rust-lang/rust-enhanced — official Rust package
  • sublimehq/packages — native Sublime support (already installed)
• Vim — the ubiquitous text editor
  • rust.vim — provides file detection, syntax highlighting, formatting, Syntastic integration, and more.
  • vim-cargo — command bindings to quickly run cargo stuff from vim.
  • vim-racer — allows vim to use Racer for Rust code completion and navigation.
  • autozimu/LanguageClient-neovim — LSP client. Implemented in Rust and supports rls out of the box.
• Visual Studio
  • PistonDevelopers/VisualRust — A Visual Studio extension for Rust
  • dgriffen/rls-vs2017 — Rust support for Visual Studio 2017 Preview
• Visual Studio Code
  • rust-lang/rls-vscode — Rust support for Visual Studio Code
  • CodeLLDB — A LLDB extension
  • crates — crates is an extension for crates.io dependencies.
  • KalitaAlexey/vscode-rust — A fork of RustyCode

Pattern recognition

• sfikas/rusteval — A tool used to evaluate the output of retrieval algorithms

Profiling

• sharkdp/hyperfine — A command-line benchmarking tool
• performancecopilot/hornet — A Performance Co-Pilot memory-mapped values instrumentation library
• ellisonch/rust-stopwatch — A stopwatch library
• FlameGraphs
  • mrhooray/torch — generates FlameGraphs based on DWARF Debug Info
  • TyOverby/flame —

Services

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

Static analysis

[assert, static]

• static_assertions — Compile-time assertions to ensure that invariants are met

Testing

[testing]

• mutagen — A source-level mutation testing framework (nightly only)
• AlKass/polish — Mini Testing/Test-Driven Framework
• proptest — property testing framework inspired by the Hypothesis framework for Python
• quickcheck — A Rust implementation of QuickCheck
• mockito — HTTP mocking
• speculate — An RSpec inspired minimal testing framework for Rust
• rust-fuzz/afl.rs — A Rust fuzzer, using AFL
• tarpaulin — A code coverage tool designed for Rust
• 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

Transpiling

• immunant/c2rust — C to Rust translator and cross checker built atop Clang/LLVM.
• jameysharp/corrode — A C to Rust translator written in Haskell.

Libraries

Artificial Intelligence

Genetic algorithms

• 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.
• innoave/genevo — Execute genetic algorithm (GA) simulations in a customizable and extensible way.
• willi-kappler/darwin-rs — This library allows you to write evolutionary algorithms (EA) using the Rust programming language. Written by Willi Kappler, License: MIT — Version 0.4 (2017.06.26).
• m-decoster/RsGenetic — Genetic Algorithm library in Rust. In maintenance mode.
• mneumann/evo-rs — Evolutionary Algorithm Library for Rust. Without changes for 3 years.
• yurytsoy/revonet — Rust implementation of real-coded GA for solving optimization problems and training of neural networks.

Machine learning

[machine learning]

See also About Rust’s Machine Learning Community.

• AtheMathmo/rusty-machine — Machine learning library for Rust
• avinashshenoy97/RusticSOM — Rust library for Self Organising Maps (SOM).
• autumnai/leaf — Open Machine Intelligence framework. . Abandoned project. The most updated fork is spearow/juice.
• tensorflow/rust — Rust language bindings for TensorFlow.
• maciejkula/rustlearn — Machine learning crate for Rust.
• LaurentMazare/tch-rs — Rust language bindings for PyTorch.

Astronomy

[astronomy]

• saurvs/astro-rust — astronomy for Rust
• fitsio — fits interface library wrapping cfitsio
• flosse/rust-sun — A rust port of the JS library suncalc

Asynchronous

• zonyitoo/coio-rs — A coroutine I/O library with a working-stealing scheduler
• dpc/mioco — Scalable, coroutine-based, asynchronous IO handling library
• TeaEntityLab/fpRust — Monad/MonadIO, Handler, Coroutine/doNotation, Functional Programming features for Rust
• rust-lang-nursery/futures-rs — Zero-cost futures in Rust
• mio — MIO is a lightweight IO library for Rust with a focus on adding as little overhead as possible over the OS abstractions
• Xudong-Huang/may — rust stackful coroutine library

Audio

[audio]

• GuillaumeGomez/rust-fmod — FMOD bindings
• jhasse/ears — A simple library to play Sounds and Musics, on top of OpenAL and libsndfile
• jpernst/alto — OpenAL 1.1 bindings
• musitdev/portmidi-rs — PortMidi bindings
• hound — A WAV encoding and decoding library
• tomaka/rodio — A Rust audio playback library
• RustAudio
  • RustAudio/rust-portaudio — PortAudio bindings

Authentication

• Keats/jsonwebtoken — JSON Web Token lib in rust

Automotive

• canparse — A CAN signal and definition parser
• j2534 — J2534 PassThru bindings
• JulianSchmid/dlt_parse — Rust DLT (Diagnostic Log and Trace) packet parser
• JulianSchmid/someip_parse [someip_parse] — A library for parsing the SOME/IP network protocol (without payload interpretation)
• LibreTuner/tuneutils [tuneutils] — Utilities for interfacing with, diagnosing, and tuning car
• marcelbuesing/can-dbc [can-dbc] — A parser for the DBC format
• marcelbuesing/tokio-socketcan-bcm [tokio-socketcan-bcm] — Linux SocketCAN BCM support for tokio
• mbr/socketcan [socketcan] — Linux SocketCAN library
• oefd/tokio-socketcan [tokio-socketcan]] — Linux SocketCAN support for tokio based on the socketcan crate
• Sensirion/lin-bus [lin-bus] — LIN bus driver traits and protocol implementation

Bioinformatics

• Rust-Bio — bioinformatics libraries in Rust.

Caching

• jaysonsantos/bmemcached-rs — Memcached library written in pure rust
• jaemk/cached — Simple function caching/memoization
• aisk/rust-memcache — Memcached client library

Concurrency

• aymanmadkour/glock – Granular locking crate for Rust.
• crossbeam-rs/crossbeam – Support for parallelism and low-level concurrency in Rust
• orium/archery [archery] — Library to abstract from Rc/Arc pointer types.
• pop-os/bus-writer — Generic single-reader, multi-writer
• Rayon – A data parallelism library for Rust
• rustcc/coroutine-rs – Coroutine Library in Rust
• zonyitoo/coio-rs – Coroutine I/O for Rust

Cloud

• AWS [aws]
  • rusoto/rusoto —

Command-line

• Argument parsing
  • clap-rs [clap] — A simple to use, full featured command-line argument parser
  • docopt/docopt.rs [docopt] — A Rust implementation of DocOpt
  • TeXitoi/structopt [structopt] — parse command line argument by defining a struct
  • killercup/quicli [quicli] — quickly build cool CLI apps in Rust
• Human-centered design
  • rust-cli/human-panic [human-panic] — panic messages for humans
• Line editor
  • srijs/rust-copperline [copperline] — pure-Rust command line editing library
  • MovingtoMars/liner [liner] — A library offering readline-like functionality
  • murarth/linefeed [linefeed] — Configurable, extensible, interactive line reader
  • kkawakam/rustyline [rustyline] — readline implementation in Rust
• Pipeline
  • imp/pager-rs [pager] — pipe your output through an external pager
  • hniksic/rust-subprocess [subprocess] — facilities for interaction with external pipelines
  • oconnor663/duct.rs [duct] — A builder for subprocess pipelines and IO redirection
  • philippkeller/rexpect [rexpect] — automate interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, etc
• Progress
  • mitsuhiko/indicatif [indicatif] — indicate progress to users
  • a8m/pb [pbr] — console progress bar for Rust
  • FGRibreau/spinners [spinners] — 60+ elegant terminal spinners
• Prompt
  • hashmismatch/terminal_cli.rs [terminal_cli] — build an interactive command prompt
• Style
  • ogham/rust-ansi-term [ansi_term] — control colours and formatting on ANSI terminals
  • LukasKalbertodt/term-painter [term-painter] — cross-platform styled terminal output
  • vitiral/termstyle [termstyle] — build (and test) formatted and styled command line applications
  • SergioBenitez/yansi [yansi] — A dead simple ANSI terminal color painting library
• TUI
  • TimonPost/crossterm [crossterm] — crossplatform terminal library
  • gyscos/Cursive [cursive] — build rich TUI applications
  • ogham/rust-term-grid [term_grid] — Rust library for putting things in a grid
  • ticki/termion [termion] — bindless library for controlling terminals/TTY
  • fdehau/tui-rs [tui] — A TUI library inspired by blessed-contrib and termui
  • BearLibTerminal
    • cfyzium/bearlibterminal [bear-lib-terminal] — BearLibTerminal bindings
  • ncurses
    • jeaye/ncurses-rs [ncurses] — ncurses bindings
    • ihalila/pancurses [pancurses] — curses library, supports linux and windows
  • Termbox
    • gchp/rustbox [rustbox] — bindings to Termbox

Compression

• Brotli
  • ende76/brotli-rs — implementation of Brotli compression
  • dropbox/rust-brotli — Brotli decompressor in Rust that optionally avoids the stdlib
• bzip2
  • alexcrichton/bzip2-rs — libbz2 bindings
• gzip
  • carols10cents/zopfli — implementation of the Zopfli compression algorithm for higher quality deflate or zlib compression
• miniz
  • alexcrichton/flate2-rs — miniz bindings
• snappy
  • JeffBelgum/rust-snappy — snappy bindings
• tar
  • alexcrichton/tar-rs — tar archive reading/writing in Rust
• zip
  • mvdnes/zip-rs — read and write ZIP archives

Computation

• argmin-rs/argmin [argmin] — A pure Rust optimization library
• BLAS [blas]
  • mikkyang/rust-blas — BLAS bindings
  • stainless-steel/blas — BLAS bindings
• Conjugate Gradient
  • noshu/cg-sys — Rust binding of fortran CG+ subroutine
• GMP
  • fizyk20/rust-gmp — libgmp bindings
• GSL
  • GuillaumeGomez/rust-GSL — GSL bindings
• LAPACK
  • stainless-steel/lapack — LAPACK bindings
• L-BFGS-B
  • noshu/lbfgsb-sys — Rust binding of fortran L-BFGS-B subroutine
• rustsim/nalgebra — low-dimensional linear algebra library
• Parallel
  • arrayfire/arrayfire-rust — Arrayfire bindings
  • autumnai/collenchyma — An extensible, pluggable, backend-agnostic framework for parallel, high-performance computations on CUDA, OpenCL and common host CPU.
  • luqmana/rust-opencl — OpenCL bindings
• Scirust
  • indigits/scirust — scientific computing library in Rust
• Statrs
  • boxtown/statrs — Robust statistical computation library in Rust
• Rustimization [rustimization]
  • noshu/rustimization — A rust optimization library which includes L-BFGS-B and Conjugate Gradient algorithm

Configuration

• mehcode/config-rs [config] — Layered configuration system for Rust applications (with strong support for 12-factor applications).
• Kixunil/configure_me [configure_me] — library for processing application configuration easily

Cryptography

[crypto, cryptography]

• briansmith/ring — Safe, fast, small crypto using Rust and BoringSSL's cryptography primitives.
• briansmith/webpki — Web PKI TLS X.509 certificate validation in Rust.
• brycx/orion — This library aims to provide easy and usable crypto. 'Usable' meaning exposing high-level API's that are easy to use and hard to misuse.
• sequoia-pgp/sequoia — An OpenPGP implementation in Rust
• ctz/rustls — A Rust implementation of TLS
• DaGenix/rust-crypto — cryptographic algorithms in Rust
• dnaq/sodiumoxide — libsodium bindings
• doublify/libblockchain — A Blockchain implementation
• exonum/exonum [exonum] — extensible framework for blockchain projects
• klutzy/suruga — A Rust implementation of TLS 1.2
• libOctavo/octavo — Modular hash and crypto library in Rust
• RustCrypto/hashes — Collection of cryptographic hash functions written in pure Rust
• rustindia/mpw-rs — Pure Rust implementation of the Master Password password manager
• Fraunhofer-AISEC/rabe — Library providing several Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) schemes
• racum/rust-djangohashers — A Rust port of the password primitives used in the Django Project. It doesn't require Django, only hashes and validates passwords according to its style.
• RNCryptor/rncryptor-rs — Pure Rust implementation of the RNCryptor AES file format
• conradkdotcom/rooster [rooster] — Simple password manager to use in your terminal
• sfackler/rust-native-tls — Bindings for native TLS libraries
• sfackler/rust-openssl — OpenSSL bindings
• kornelski/rust-security-framework — Bindings for Security Framework (OSX native crypto)
• steffengy/schannel-rs — Bindings for Schannel (Windows native TLS)
• zebradil/rustotpony — CLI manager of one-time password generators aka Google Authenticator (TOTP)

Database

[database]

• sfackler/r2d2 — generic connection pool

• NoSQL [nosql]

  • ArangoDB
    • Rincon — An ArangoDB (NoSQL and Graph store) driver for Rust
  • Cassandra [cassandra, cql]
    • AlexPikalov/cdrs [cdrs] — native client written in Rust
    • Metaswitch/cassandra-rs — bindings to the DataStax C/C++ client
  • CouchDB [couchdb]
    • chill-rs/chill [couchdb] — A Rust client for the CouchDB REST API
    • Sofa — an interface to CouchDB HTTP REST API for stable rust
  • Elasticsearch [elasticsearch]
    • benashford/rs-es [rs-es] — A Rust client for the Elastic REST API
    • elastic-rs/elastic-reqwest [elastic_reqwest] — A lightweight implementation of the Elasticsearch API based on Reqwest
  • etcd
    • jimmycuadra/rust-etcd [etcd] — A client library for CoreOS's etcd.
  • ForestDB
    • vhbit/sherwood — ForestDB bindings
  • InfluxDB
    • panoptix-za/influxdb-rs — asynchronous interface
    • driftluo/InfluxDBClient-rs — Synchronization interface
  • LevelDB
    • skade/leveldb — LevelDB bindings
  • LMDB [lmdb]
    • vhbit/lmdb-rs [lmdb-rs] — LMDB bindings
  • MongoDB [mongodb]
    • mongodb-labs/mongo-rust-driver-prototype [mongodb] — MongoDB bindings
  • Neo4j [cypher, neo4j]
  • Redis [redis]
    • mitsuhiko/redis-rs — Redis library in Rust
  • RocksDB
    • rust-rocksdb/rust-rocksdb — RocksDB bindings
  • UnQLite
    • zitsen/unqlite.rs — UnQLite bindings
  • ZooKeeper
    • bonifaido/rust-zookeeper [zookeeper] — A client library for Apache ZooKeeper.
  • PickleDB
    • seladb/pickledb-rs — a lightweight and simple key-value store, heavily inspired by Python's PickleDB.

• SQL [sql]

  • Microsoft SQL
    • steffengy/tiberius —
  • MySql [mysql]
    • AgilData/mysql-proxy-rs — A MySQL Proxy
    • blackbeam/mysql_async [mysql_async] — asyncronous Rust Mysql driver based on Tokio.
    • blackbeam/rust-mysql-simple [mysql] — A native MySql client
  • PostgreSql [postgres, postgresql]
    • sfackler/rust-postgres [postgres] — A native PostgreSQL client
  • Sqlite [sqlite]
    • jgallagher/rusqlite — Sqlite3 bindings

• ORM [orm]

  • diesel-rs/diesel — an ORM and Query builder for Rust
  • ivanceras/rustorm — an ORM for Rust

Data processing

• bluss/ndarray — N-dimensional array with array views, multidimensional slicing, and efficient operations
• kernelmachine/utah — Dataframe structure and operations in Rust
• weld-project/weld — High-performance runtime for data analytics applications

Data structures

• billyevans/tst [tst] — Ternary search tree collection
• bluss/rust-itertools —
• contain-rs — Extension of Rust's std::collections
• danielpclark/array_tool — Array helpers for Rust. Some of the most common methods you would use on Arrays made available on Vectors. Polymorphic implementations for handling most of your use cases.
• fizyk20/generic-array – a hack to allow for arrays sized by typenums
• garro95/priority-queue[priority-queue] — A priority queue that implements priority changes.
• Nemo157/roaring-rs – Roaring Bitmaps in Rust
• orium/rpds [rpds] — Persistent data structures in Rust.
• pop-os/progress-streams — Progress callbacks for types which implement dyn io::Read or dyn io::Write.
• whitfin/usher [usher] — Parameterized routing for generic resources in Rust.
• xfix/enum-map [enum-map] — An optimized map implementation for enums using an array to store values.

Data visualization

• saresend/gust —

Date and time

[date, time]

• chronotope/chrono —
• yaa110/rust-persian-calendar —

Distributed systems

• Antimony
  • antimonyproject/antimony [antimony] — stream processing / distributed computation platform
• Apache Hadoop
  • whitfin/efflux — Easy Hadoop Streaming and MapReduce interfaces in Rust.
• Apache Kafka
  • fede1024/rust-rdkafka [rdkafka] — librdkafka bindings
  • spicavigo/kafka-rust —
• Beanstalkd
  • schickling/rust-beanstalkd — Beanstalkd bindings
• HDFS
  • hyunsik/hdfs-rs — libhdfs bindings

Email

[email, imap, smtp]

• GildedHonour/atarashii_imap — 新しい (atarashii/new) IMAP client in Rust. It supports plain and secure connections
• gsquire/sendgrid-rs — unofficial Rust library for SendGrid API
• lettre/lettre — an SMTP-library for Rust
• staktrace/mailparse [mailparse] — A library for parsing real-world email files

Encoding

[encoding]

• ASN.1
  • alex/rust-asn1 — A Rust ASN.1 (DER) serializer
• Bencode
  • arjantop/rust-bencode — Bencode implementation in Rust
• Binary
  • arcnmx/nue — I/O and binary data encoding for Rust
  • TyOverby/bincode — A binary encoder/decoder in Rust
  • m4b/goblin [goblin] — cross-platform, zero-copy, and endian-aware binary parsing
• BSON
  • zonyitoo/bson-rs —
• Byte swapping
  • BurntSushi/byteorder — Supports big-endian, little-endian and native byte orders
• Cap'n Proto
  • capnproto/capnproto-rust —
• CBOR
  • serde_cbor — CBOR support for serde
• Character Encoding
  • hsivonen/encoding_rs [encoding_rs] — A Gecko-oriented implementation of the Encoding Standard in Rust
  • lifthrasiir/rust-encoding —
• CRC
  • mrhooray/crc-rs —
• CSV
  • BurntSushi/rust-csv — A fast and flexible CSV reader and writer, with support for Serde
• FlatBuffers
  • frol/flatc-rust — FlatBuffers compiler (flatc) integration for Cargo build scripts
• HAR
  • mandrean/har-rs — A HTTP Archive Format (HAR) serialization & deserialization library
• HTML
  • servo/html5ever — High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser
  • veddan/rust-htmlescape — encoding/decoding HTML entities
• JSON
  • pikkr/pikkr [pikkr] — JSON parser which picks up values directly without performing tokenization in Rust
  • serde-rs/json [serde_json] — JSON support for Serde framework
  • maciejhirsz/json-rust [json] — JSON implementation in Rust
• Jsonnet
  • Qihoo360/rust-jsonnet —
• MsgPack
  • 3Hren/msgpack-rust — A pure Rust low/high level MessagePack implementation
• PEM
  • jcreekmore/pem-rs [pem] — A Rust based way to parse and encode PEM-encoded data
• Postman Collection
  • mandrean/postman-collection-rs — A Postman Collection v1, v2 & v2.1 serialization & deserialization library
• ProtocolBuffers
  • danburkert/prost —
  • stepancheg/rust-protobuf —
• RON (Rusty Object Notation)
  • https://github.com/ron-rs/ron —
• Tnetstring
  • erickt/rust-tnetstring —
• TOML
  • alexcrichton/toml-rs —
• XML
  • tafia/quick-xml — High performance XML pull reader/writer
  • Florob/RustyXML — an XML parser written in Rust
  • shepmaster/sxd-document — An XML library in Rust
  • shepmaster/sxd-xpath — An XPath library in Rust
  • netvl/xml-rs — A streaming XML library
  • media-io/yaserde — Yet Another Serializer/Deserializer specialized for XML
• YAML
  • chyh1990/yaml-rust — The missing YAML 1.2 implementation for Rust.
  • dtolnay/serde-yaml [serde_yaml] — YAML support for Serde framework
  • kimhyunkang/libyaml-rust — libyaml bindings
  • vitiral/stfu8 — Sorta Text Format in UTF-8

Filesystem

[filesystem]

• Operations
  • pop-os/dbus-udisks2 -> UDisks2 DBus API
  • pop-os/sys-mount — High level abstraction for the mount / umount2 system calls.
  • vitiral/path_abs — Absolute serializable path types and associated methods.
  • webdesus/fs_extra — expanding opportunities standard library std::fs and std::io
• Temporary Files
  • rust-lang-deprecated/tempdir — temporary directory library
  • Stebalien/tempfile — temporary file library
  • Stebalien/xattr [xattr] — list and manipulate unix extended file attributes
  • zboxfs/zbox [zbox] — Zero-details, privacy-focused embeddable file system.

Game development

See also Are we game yet?

• Allegro
  • SiegeLord/RustAllegro — Allegro 5 bindings
• Challonge
  • vityafx/challonge-rs [challonge] — Client library for the Challonge REST API. Helps to organize tournaments.
• Corange
  • lucidscape/corange-rs — Corange bindings
• Entity-Component Systems (ECS)
  • slide-rs/specs — Specs Parallel ECS
• Game Engines
  • Amethyst — Data-oriented game engine
  • Piston —
  • ggez — A lightweight game framework for making 2D games with minimum friction
  • Kiss3D — A Keep It Simple, Stupid 3d graphics engine written with Rust
  • Unrust — unrust — A pure rust based (webgl 2.0 / native) game engine
  • Vulkust — Vulkust — A safe, highly multithreaded, Vulkan based game engine written with Rust.
• SDL [sdl]
  • brson/rust-sdl — SDL1 bindings
  • Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2 — SDL2 bindings
• SFML
  • jeremyletang/rust-sfml — SFML bindings
• Tcod-rs
  • tomassedovic/tcod-rs — Libtcod bindings for Rust.
• Victorem
  • VictoremWinbringer/Victorem [Victorem] — Easy UDP Game Server and UDP Client framework for creating simple 2D and 3D online game prototype
• Voxlap
  • bbodi/rust-voxlap — Voxlap bindings

Geospatial

[geo, gis]

• DaveKram/coord_transforms [coord_transforms] — coordinate transformations (2-d, 3-d, and geospatial)
• Georust — geospatial tools and libraries written in Rust
• rust-reverse-geocoder — A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Rust, inspired by https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder
• vlopes11/geomorph [geomorph] — conversion between UTM, LatLon and MGRS coordinates

Graphics

[graphics]

• gfx-rs/gfx — A high-performance, bindless graphics API for Rust.
• Font
  • redox-os/rusttype — A pure Rust alternative to libraries like FreeType
• OpenGL [opengl]
  • brendanzab/gl-rs —
  • glium/glium — safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.
  • Kiss3d — draw simple geometric figures and play with them with one-liners
  • PistonDevelopers/glfw-rs —
  • glutin — Rust alternative to GLFW
• PDF
  • kaj/rust-pdf —
  • fschutt/printpdf — PDF writing library
  • J-F-Liu/lopdf — PDF document manipulation
• Vulkan [vulkan]
  • vulkano [vulkano] —

Graph processing

• kud1ing/tinkerpop-rs — an example how to use Apache TinkerPop from Rust

GUI

[gui]

• autopilot-rs/autopilot-rs — A simple, cross-platform GUI automation library for Rust.

• maps4print/azul — A free, functional, IMGUI-oriented GUI framework for rapid development of desktop applications written in Rust, supported by the Mozilla WebRender rendering engine.

• PistonDevelopers/conrod — An easy-to-use, immediate-mode, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust

• rise-ui — Simple component-based cross-Platform GUI Toolkit for developing beautiful and user-friendly interfaces.

• Cocoa

  • kylewlacy/sorbet-cocoa —
  • servo/core-foundation-rs —

• Flutter

  • flutter-rs — Build flutter desktop app in dart & rust.

• GTK+ [gtk]

  • gtk-rs/gtk — GTK+ bindings
  • relm — Asynchronous, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm

• ImGui

  • imgui-rs — Rust bindings for ImGui

• IUP

  • clear-coat — Clear Coat is a Rust wrapper for the IUP GUI library
  • dcampbell24/iup-rust — IUP bindings
  • Kiss-ui — A simple UI framework built on IUP

• libui

  • pcwalton/libui-rs — libui bindings . Abandoned project. The most updated fork is NoraCodes/libui-rs.

• Nuklear

  • nuklear-rust — Rust bindings for Nuklear

• Qt

  • cyndis/qmlrs — QtQuick bindings
  • kitech/qt.rs — Qt5 bindings
  • Rust Qt Binding Generator — Binding generator hosted by KDE.
  • rust-qt —
  • White-Oak/qml-rust — QML bindings.

• saurvs/nfd-rs — nativefiledialog bindings

• Sciter

  • sciter-sdk/rust-sciter — Sciter bindings

Image processing

• abonander/img_hash — Perceptual image hashing and comparison for equality and similarity.
• image-rs/image — Basic imaging processing functions and methods for converting to and from image formats
• image-rs/imageproc — An image processing library, based on the image library.
• twistedfall/opencv-rust — Rust bindings for OpenCV
• teovoinea/steganography [steganography] — A simple steganography library

Language specification

• shnewto/bnf — A library for parsing Backus–Naur form context-free grammars.

Logging

[log]

• rust-lang-nursery/log — Logging implementation for Rust
• slog-rs/slog — Structured, composable logging for Rust
• sfackler/log4rs — highly configurable logging framework modeled after Java's Logback and log4j libraries

Macro

• cute
  • mattgathu/cute — Macro for Python-esque list comprehensions in Rust.
• hado
  • ludat/hado-rs — A little macro for writing haskell-like do expressions without too much ceremony

Markup language

• CommonMark
  • raphlinus/pulldown-cmark — CommonMark parser in Rust

Mobile

Geal/rust_on_mobile

• Android
  • rust-windowing/android-rs-glue — glue between Rust and Android
• iOS
  • TimNN/cargo-lipo — A cargo lipo subcommand which automatically creates a universal library for use with your iOS application.
  • vhbit/ObjCrust — using Rust to create an iOS static library
• Pebble
  • andars/pebble.rs — A crate that allows Rust to be used to develop Pebble applications.

Network programming

• HTTP
  • pop-os/parallel-getter — Download a file with parallel GET requests to maximize bandwidth usage.
  • pop-os/url-crawler — A configurable parallel web crawler, designed to crawl a website for content.
  • pop-os/url-scraper — Scrape URLs from HTML pages
• FTP
  • mattnenterprise/rust-ftp — an FTP client for Rust
• IPNetwork
  • achanda/ipnetwork — A library to work with IP networks in pure Rust
  • candrew/netsim — A Rust library for network simulation and testing
• JSON-RPC
  • vlopes11/futures-jsonrpc [futures-jsonrpc] — Futures implementation for JSON-RPC
• Low level
  • Gymmasssorla/sendmmsg — Transmit multiple messages using one system call in Rust
  • libpnet/libpnet — A cross-platform, low level networking
  • tokio-rs/tokio — A network application framework for rapid development and highly scalable production deployments of clients and servers.
  • dylanmckay/protocol — Custom TCP/UDP protocol definitions
  • actix/actix — Actor library for Rust
• NanoMsg
  • thehydroimpulse/nanomsg.rs — nanomsg bindings
• Nng
  • neachdainn/nng-rs [Nng] — Nng (nanomsg v2) bindings
• NNTP
  • mattnenterprise/rust-nntp — an NNTP client for Rust
• POP3
  • mattnenterprise/rust-pop3 — A POP3 client for Rust
• SSH
  • alexcrichton/ssh2-rs — libssh2 bindings
  • Thrussh — an SSH library written from scratch in Rust, backed by libsodium
• Stomp
  • zslayton/stomp-rs — A STOMP 1.2 client implementation in Rust
• uTP
  • meqif/rust-utp — A uTP (Micro Transport Protocol) library for Rust.
• ZeroMQ
  • erickt/rust-zmq — ZeroMQ bindings
• CoAP
  • Covertness/coap-rs — A Constrained Application Protocol(CoAP) library for Rust.

Parsing

• Geal/nom — parser combinator library
• ivanceras/inquerest — an URL parameter parser for rest filter inquiry
• kevinmehall/rust-peg — Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) parser generator
• m4rw3r/chomp – A fast monadic-style parser combinator
• Marwes/combine — parser combinator library
• lalrpop/lalrpop — LR(1) parser generator for Rust
• nrc/zero — zero-allocation parsing of binary data
• pest-parser/pest — The Elegant Parser
• ptal/oak — A typed PEG parser generator (compiler plugin)
• rustless/queryst — A query string parsing library for Rust inspired by https://github.com/ljharb/qs

Packaging formats

• pop-os/debarchive Library for reading and extracting debian archives

Peripherals

• Serial Port
  • Susurrus/serialport-rs [serialport] — A cross-platform library that provides access to a serial port

Platform specific

• Linux
  • frol/cgroups-fs — Rust bindings to Linux Control Groups (cgroups)
  • pop-os/dbus-udisks2 — UDisks2 DBus API
  • pop-os/distinst — Linux distribution installer library
  • inotify-rs/inotify — inotify bindings
  • arvancloud/nginx-rs — Nginx bindings
  • yaa110/rust-iptables — iptables bindings
• Unix-like
  • nix-rust/nix — Unix-like API bindings
  • zargony/rust-fuse — FUSE bindings
• Windows
  • retep998/winapi-rs — Windows API bindings
• FreeBSD
  • fubarnetes/libjail-rs — Rust implementation of a FreeBSD jail library
  • dlrobertson/capsicum-rs — Rust bindings for the FreeBSD capsicum framework

Scripting

[scripting]

• PistonDevelopers/dyon — A rusty dynamically typed scripting language
• gluon-lang/gluon — A small, statically-typed, functional programming language
• murarth/ketos — A Lisp dialect functional programming language serving as a scripting and extension language for rust
• moss — A dynamically typed scripting language
• jonathandturner/rhai — A tiny and fast embedded scripting language resembling a combination of JS and Rust

Template engine

• Handlebars
  • sunng87/handlebars-rust — Handlebars template engine with inheritance, custom helper support.
  • r-iendo/yarte — compile-time handlebars-like templates
• HTML
  • lfairy/maud — compile-time HTML templates
  • Stebalien/horrorshow-rs — compile-time HTML templates
  • kaj/ructe — HTML template system for Rust
  • Keats/tera — template engine based on Jinja2 and the Django template language.
  • djc/askama — template rendering engine based on Jinja
• Mustache
  • rustache/rustache —
• tailhook/marafet — Compiler for Jade-like template language to cito.js-based virtual dom

Text processing

• BurntSushi/suffix — Linear time suffix array construction (with Unicode support)
• BurntSushi/tabwriter — Elastic tab stops (i.e., text column alignment)
• mgeisler/textwrap [textwrap] — Word wrap text (with support for hyphenation)
• pwoolcoc/ngrams — Construct n-grams from arbitrary iterators
• ps1dr3x/easy_reader — A reader that allows forwards, backwards and random navigations through the lines of huge files without consuming iterators
• rust-lang/regex — Regular expressions (RE2 style)
• strsim-rs — String similarity metrics
• greyblake/whatlang-rs — Natural language detection library based on trigrams
• yaa110/rake-rs — Multilingual implementation of RAKE algorithm for Rust
• Lucretiel/joinery [joinery] – Generic string + iterable joining

Text search

• BurntSushi/fst [fst] —
• CurrySoftware/perlin [perlin] —
• tantivy-search/tantivy [tantivy] —

Virtualization

• beneills/quantum — Advanced Rust quantum computer simulator
• ekse/unicorn-rs — Rust bindings for the unicorn CPU emulator
• saurvs/hypervisor-rs — Hardware-accelerated virtualization on OS X

Web programming

See also Are we web yet? and Rust web framework comparison.

• Client-side / WASM
  • cargo-web — A Cargo subcommand for the client-side Web
  • stdweb — A standard library for the client-side Web
  • yew — Rust framework for making client web apps
• HTTP Client
  • alexcrichton/curl-rust — libcurl bindings
  • hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
  • seanmonstar/reqwest — an ergonomic HTTP Client for Rust.
  • DoumanAsh/yukikaze — Beautiful and elegant Yukikaze is little HTTP client library based on hyper.
• HTTP Server
  • actix/actix-web — A lightweight async web framework for Rust with websocket support
  • branca — A Pure Rust implementation of Branca for Authenticated and Encrypted API tokens.
  • Gotham — A flexible web framework that does not sacrifice safety, security or speed.
  • hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
  • GildedHonour/frank_jwt — JSON Web Token implementation in Rust.
  • handlebars-rust — an Iron web framework middleware.
  • Iron — A middleware-based server framework
  • Nickel — inspired by Express
  • Ogeon/rustful — A RESTful web framework for Rust
  • Rocket — Rocket is web framework for Rust (nightly) with a focus on ease-of-use, expressability, and speed
  • Rustless — A REST-like API micro-framework inspired by Grape and Hyper
  • Saphir — A progressive web framework with low-level control, without the pain.
  • rustforce/sapper — A lightweight web framework built on async hyper, implemented in Rust language.
  • tiny-http — Low level HTTP server library
  • tomaka/rouille — Web framework in Rust
  • carllerche/tower-web [tower-web] — A fast, boilerplate free, web framework for Rust
  • danclive/sincere — A micro web framework for Rust(stable) based on hyper and multithreading.
  • oltdaniel/zap — A lightning fast http framework for Rust
• WebSocket
  • actix/sockjs — A SockJS server for Rust
  • cyderize/rust-websocket — A framework for dealing with WebSocket connections (both clients and servers)
  • housleyjk/ws-rs — lightweight, event-driven WebSockets for Rust
  • snapview/tungstenite-rs — Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation for Rust.
  • vi/websocat — CLI for interacting with WebSockets, with functionality of Netcat, Curl and Socat.
  • vityafx/urlshortener-rs [urlshortener] — A very simple urlshortener library for Rust.
• Miscellaneous
  • cargonauts — A web framework intended for building maintainable, well-factored web apps.
  • pyros2097/rust-embed — A macro to embed static assets into the rust binary
  • utkarshkukreti/select.rs [select] — A library to extract useful data from HTML documents, suitable for web scraping.
• Reverse Proxy
  • sozu-proxy/sozu [sozu] — A HTTP reverse proxy.
• Static Site Generators
  • getzola/zola [zola] — An opinionated static site generator with everything built-in.
  • cobalt-org/cobalt.rs — Static site generator written in Rust
  • FuGangqiang/mdblog.rs — Static site generator from markdown files.
  • leven-the-blog/leven [leven] — A simple, parallelized blog generator.

Registries

A registry allows you to publish your Rust libraries as crate packages, to share them with others publicly and privately.

• Crates - The official public registry for Rust/Cargo.
• Cloudsmith 💲 - A fully managed package management SaaS, with first-class support for public and private Cargo/Rust registries (plus many others). Has a generous free-tier and is also completely free for open-source.

Resources

• Benchmarks
  • TeXitoi/benchmarksgame-rs — Rust implementations for the The Computer Language Benchmarks Game
• Decks & Presentations
  • Learning systems programming with Rust — Presented by Julia Evans @ Rustconf 2016.
  • Shipping a Solid Rust Crate — Presented by Michael Gattozzi @ RustConf 2017
  • Rust: Hack Without Fear! — Presented by Nicholas Matsakis @ C++Now 2018
• Learning
  • Programming Community Curated Resources for Learning Rust — A list of recommended resources voted by the programming community.
  • exercism.io — programming exercises that help you learn new concepts in Rust.
  • Idiomatic Rust — A peer-reviewed collection of articles/talks/repos which teach idiomatic Rust.
  • Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists — in-depth exploration of Rust's memory management rules, through implementing a few different types of list structures.
  • Rust by Example
  • Rust Cookbook — A collection of simple examples that demonstrate good practices to accomplish common programming tasks, using the crates of the Rust ecosystem.
  • Rust in Motion — A video series by Carol Nichols and Jake Goulding (paid)
  • rust-learning — A collection of useful resources to learn Rust
  • Rustlings — small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code
  • stdx — Learn these crates first as an extension to std
  • University of Pennsylvania's Comp Sci Rust Programming Course
  • Build a language VM
• Podcasts
  • New Rustacean — A podcast about learning Rust
  • Rusty Spike — news on all things Rust
• RustCamp 2015 Talks
• Rust Design Patterns
• Rust Guidelines
• RustBooks — list of RustBooks
• Rust Subreddit — A subreddit(forum) where rust related questions, articles and resources are posted and discussed

License