Awesome Rust

A curated list of awesome Rust code and resources. Inspired by the other awesome lists.

Only projects that are stable and useful to users are added. Projects that do not compile with Rust-nightly for a longer time are moved to UNSTABLE.md.

• Awesome Rust
  • Code
    • Audio
    • Build system
    • Command-line argument parsing
    • Compression
    • Computation
    • Cryptography
    • Database
    • Encoding
    • Game development
    • Games
    • GUI
    • Network programming
    • Template engine
    • Testing
    • Web programming
  • Resources

Code

Audio

• bjz/openal-rs — OpenAL 1.1 bindings
• JeremyLetang/ears — a simple library to play Sounds and Musics, on top of OpenAL and libsndfile
• JeremyLetang/rust-portaudio — PortAudio bindings
• musitdev/rust-portmidi — PortMidi bindings

Build system

• Cargo — the Rust package manager
• CMake
  • SiegeLord/RustCMake — an example project showing usage of CMake with Rust
• Make
  • PistonDevelopers/rust-empty — a Makefile to get started with Rust

Command-line argument parsing

• docopt/docopt.rs — a DocOpt port to Rust
• wycats/hammer.rs

Compression

• lifthrasiir/rust-zip — read and write ZIP archives

Computation

• eholk/rust-opencl — OpenCL bindings

Cryptography

• DaGenix/rust-crypto — cryptographic algorithms in Rust
• dnaq/sodiumoxide — libsodium bindings
• sfackler/rust-openssl — OpenSSL bindings

Database

• SQL
  • MySql
    • blackbeam/rust-mysql-simple — a native MySql client
  • PostgreSql
    • sfackler/rust-postgres — a native PostgreSQL client
  • Sqlite
    • linuxfood/rustsqlite — Sqlite3 bindings

Encoding

• Cap'n Proto
  • dwrensha/capnproto-rust —
• Character Encoding
  • lifthrasiir/rust-encoding —
• CSV
  • BurntSushi/rust-csv —
• MsgPck
  • mneumann/rust-msgpack —
• ProtocolBuffers
  • stepancheg/rust-protobuf —
• TOML
  • alexcrichton/toml-rs
• Tnetstring
• XML
  • bjz/sax-rs — bindings to libxml2's SAX parser
  • DanielFath/xml-air — A hybrid pull, DOM parser written in pure Rust
  • Florob/RustyXML — an XML parser written in Rust
  • netvl/rust-xml — a streaming XML library

Game development

• JeremyLetang/rustenstein3D — a raycasting engine in rust

Games

• lifthrasiir/angolmois-rust — a minimalistic music video game which supports the BMS format

GUI

• Cocoa
  • mozilla-servo/rust-cocoa
• Gtk+
  • JeremyLetang/rgtk — Gtk+ bindings
• ncurses
  • jeaye/ncurses-rs —
• SDL
  • AngryLawyer/rust-sdl2 — SDL2 bindings
  • brson/rust-sdl — SDL1 bindings
• Termbox
  • gchp/rustbox — a Rust implementation of termbox http://github.com/nsf/termbox
• wxWidgets

Network programming

• ZeroMQ
  • erickt/rust-zmq — ZeroMQ bindings

Template engine

• Mustache
  • erickt/rust-mustache —

Testing

• BurntSushi/quickcheck — property-based testing using randomly generated input
• farcaller/shiny — a fancy syntax similar to ruby's rspec or Objective-C's kiwi

Web programming

See also http://arewewebyet.com/

• Core
  • chris-morgan/rust-http — will be replaced by Teepee
  • hyperium/hyper —
• Client
  • carllerche/curl-rust — libcurl bindings
  • vhbit/curl-rs — libcurl bindings
• Server
  • erickt/rust-mongrel2 — Mongrel2 bindings
  • Iron — inspired by Express
  • Nickel — inspired by Express

Resources

• Rust by Example
• Rust CI — a Travis CI dashboard for Rust projects
• Rust Guidelines