Awesome Rust

A curated list of Rust code and resources.

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Table of contents

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

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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• rx — Vi inspired Modern Pixel Art Editor
• Servo — A prototype web browser engine
• 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
• trust-dns — A DNS-server
• 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
• 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.
• 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

• Akula - Rust Ethereum Execution Layer (EL) Client (WIP)
• 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-rs — 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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 💲
• 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 —
  • 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
• NES
  • koute/pinky —
  • pcwalton/sprocketnes
• ZX Spectrum
  • rustzx/rustzx —

Games

See also Games Made With Piston.

• citybound — The city sim you deserve
• cristicbz/rust-doom — A renderer for Doom, may progress to being a playable game
• doukutsu-rs — A Rust reimplementation of Cave Story engine with some enhancements.
• garkimasera/rusted-ruins — Extensible open world rogue like game with pixel art
• gorilla-devs/ferium — Ferium is a fast and feature rich CLI program for downloading and updating Minecraft mods from Modrinth, CurseForge, and GitHub Releases, and modpacks from Modrinth and CurseForge
• lifthrasiir/angolmois-rust — A minimalistic music video game which supports the BMS format
• mara214/rsnake — Snake written in Rust.
• ozkriff/zemeroth — A small 2D turn-based hexagonal strategy game
• rhex — hexagonal ascii roguelike
• rsaarelm/magog — A roguelike game in Rust
• SoftbearStudios/mk48 — Mk48.io is an online multiplayer naval combat game
• swatteau/sokoban-rs — A Sokoban implementation
• thetawavegame/thetawave-legacy - A space shooter game that strives to be an entry point for new game developers to make their first contributions.
• Thinkofname/rust-quake — Quake map renderer in Rust
• ttyperacer/terminal-typeracer - Single player typing test game written for the terminal
• Veloren — An open world, open source multiplayer voxel RPG game currently in alpha development
• Zone of Control — A turn-based hexagonal strategy game

Graphics

• ivanceras/svgbob — converts ASCII diagrams into SVG graphics
• Limeth/euclider — A real-time 4D CPU ray tracer
• RazrFalcon/resvg — An SVG rendering library.
• 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.
• 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

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
• pier-cli/pier — A central repository to manage (add, search metadata, etc.) all your one-liners, scripts, tools, and CLIs

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-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.
• 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.
• phra/rustbuster — A Comprehensive Web Fuzzer and Content Discovery Tool
• ripasso — A password manager, filesystem compatible with pass
• rustscan/rustscan — Make Nmap faster with this port scanning tool

Simulation

• hEngine - A Rust-implemented computational simulation engine, supporting large-scale agent-based modelling, with simulation logic written in JavaScript and Python.

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.
• 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
• fselect — Find files with SQL-like queries
• gitui - Blazing fast terminal client for git written in Rust.
• Kondo - CLI & GUI tool for deleting software project artifacts and reclaiming disk space
• lotabout/rargs [rargs] — xargs + awk with pattern matching support
• lotabout/skim — A fuzzy finder in pure rust
• Luminarys/synapse — Flexible and fast BitTorrent daemon.
• m4b/bingrep — Greps through binaries from various OSs and architectures, and colors them.
• 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
• ogham/exa — A replacement for 'ls'
• 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
• Peltoche/lsd — An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
• 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.
• 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-editory.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• nix-community/nurl [nurl] — Generate Nix fetcher calls from repository URLs
• nomino — Batch rename utility for developers
• raftario/licensor — write licenses to stdout
• rustdesk/rustdesk — A remote desktop software, great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk.
• 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
• yaa110/cb — Command line interface to manage clipboard

Video

• dertuxmalwieder/yaydl [yaydl] - A simple video downloader
• harlanc/xiu — A powerful and secure live server by pure rust (rtmp/httpflv/hls/relay).
• 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

• 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
• 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
• 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-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-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
• Github Pages
  • wasm-template-rust — A wasm template for Rust to publish to gh-pages without npm-deploy
• Heroku
  • emk/heroku-buildpack-rust — A buildpack for Rust applications on Heroku

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.
• 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
  • 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++
  • 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
• 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
  • tildeio/helix — write Ruby classes in Rust
• 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.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

• 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.
  • 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.
• Phate6660/nixinfo [crate] — A lib crate for gathering system info such as cpu, distro, environment, kernel, etc.

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.
• 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.

Astronomy

[astronomy]

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

Asynchronous

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

Audio and Music

[audio]

• hound — A WAV encoding and decoding library
• insomnimus/nodi [nodi] — A library for playback and abstraction of MIDI files.
• jhasse/ears — A simple library to play Sounds and Musics, on top of OpenAL and libsndfile
• musitdev/portmidi-rs — PortMidi bindings
• ozankasikci/rust-music-theory — A Rust music theory library
• pdeljanov/Symphonia — A pure Rust audio decoding and media demuxing library supporting AAC, FLAC, MP3, MP4, OGG, Vorbis, and WAV.
• RustAudio
  • RustAudio/cpal - Low-level cross-platform audio I/O library in pure Rust.
  • RustAudio/rodio — A Rust audio playback library
  • RustAudio/rust-portaudio — PortAudio bindings
• Serial-ATA/lofty-rs [lofty] — A library for reading and editing the metadata of various audio formats

Authentication

• constantoine/totp-rs [totp-rs] — 2fa library to generate and verify TOTP-based tokens
• Keats/jsonwebtoken — JSON Web Token lib in rust
• oauth2 — Extensible, strongly-typed Rust OAuth2 client library
• oxide-auth — A OAuth2 server library, for use in combination with actix or other frontends, featuring a set of configurable and pluggable backends
• sgrust01/jwtvault — Async library to manage and orchestrate JWT workflow
• yup-oauth2 — An oauth2 client implementation providing the Device, Installed and Service Account flows

Automotive

• 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

• aisk/rust-memcache — Memcached client library
• al8n/stretto - A high performance thread-safe memory-bound Rust cache
• jaemk/cached — Simple function caching/memoization
• mozilla/sccache - Shared Compilation Cache, great for Rust compilation

Cloud

• AWS [aws]
  • awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime [lambda_runtime] — A Rust runtime for AWS Lambda
  • awslabs/aws-sdk-rust - The new AWS SDK for Rust
  • rusoto/rusoto —
• Load Balancer
  • Convey - Layer 4 Load Balancer with dynamic configuration loading.
• Multi Cloud
  • Qovery/engine - Abstraction layer library that turns easy application deployment on Cloud providers in just a few minutes

Command-line

• Argument parsing
  • clap-rs [clap] — A simple to use, full featured command-line argument parser
  • cliparser — Simple command line parser.
  • docopt/docopt.rs [docopt] — A Rust implementation of DocOpt
  • google/argh [argh] — An opinionated Derive-based argument parser optimized for code size
  • killercup/quicli [quicli] — quickly build cool CLI apps in Rust
  • ksk001100/seahorse [seahorse] — A minimal CLI framework written in Rust
  • TeXitoi/structopt [structopt] — parse command line argument by defining a struct
• Data visualization
  • nukesor/comfy-table [comfy-table] — Beautiful dynamic tables for your cli tools.
  • zhiburt/tabled [tabled] — An easy to use library for pretty print tables of Rust structs and enums.
• Human-centered design
  • rust-cli/human-panic [human-panic] — panic messages for humans
• Line editor
  • kkawakam/rustyline [rustyline] — readline implementation in Rust
  • MovingtoMars/liner [liner] — A library offering readline-like functionality
  • murarth/linefeed [linefeed] — Configurable, extensible, interactive line reader
  • srijs/rust-copperline [copperline] — pure-Rust command line editing library
• Other
  • mgrachev/update-informer [update-informer] — Update informer for CLI applications. It checks for a new version on Crates.io and GitHub
• Pipeline
  • hniksic/rust-subprocess [subprocess] — facilities for interaction with external pipelines
  • imp/pager-rs [pager] — pipe your output through an external pager
  • oconnor663/duct.rs [duct] — A builder for subprocess pipelines and IO redirection
  • rust-cli/rexpect [rexpect] — automate interactive applications such as ssh, ftp, passwd, etc
  • zhiburt/expectrl [expectrl] — A library for controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal
• Progress
  • a8m/pb [pbr] — console progress bar for Rust
  • console-rs/indicatif [indicatif] — indicate progress to users
  • etienne-napoleone/spinach [spinach] — Practical spinner for Rust.
  • FGRibreau/spinners [spinners] — 60+ elegant terminal spinners
• Prompt
  • hashmismatch/terminal_cli.rs [terminal_cli] — build an interactive command prompt
  • starship/starship [starship] — A minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell
  • ynqa/promkit [promkit] — A toolkit for building interactive command-line tools
• Style
  • LukasKalbertodt/bunt [bunt] — cross-platform terminal colors and styling with macros
  • LukasKalbertodt/term-painter [term-painter] — cross-platform styled terminal output
  • mackwic/colored [colored] — Coloring terminal so simple, you already know how to do it!
  • ogham/rust-ansi-term [ansi_term] — control colours and formatting on ANSI terminals
  • SergioBenitez/yansi [yansi] — A dead simple ANSI terminal color painting library
• TUI
  • BearLibTerminal
    • cfyzium/bearlibterminal [bear-lib-terminal] — BearLibTerminal bindings
  • fdehau/tui-rs [tui] — A TUI library inspired by blessed-contrib and termui
  • gyscos/Cursive [cursive] — build rich TUI applications
  • ivanceras/titik - a crossplatform TUI widget library with the goal of providing interactive widgets
  • ncurses
    • ihalila/pancurses [pancurses] — curses library, supports linux and windows
    • jeaye/ncurses-rs [ncurses] — ncurses bindings
  • ogham/rust-term-grid [term_grid] — Rust library for putting things in a grid
  • redox-os/termion [termion] — bindless library for controlling terminals/TTY
  • Termbox
    • gchp/rustbox [rustbox] — bindings to Termbox
  • TimonPost/crossterm [crossterm] — crossplatform terminal library

Compression

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

Computation

• argmin-rs/argmin [argmin] — A pure Rust optimization library
• BLAS [blas]
  • mikkyang/rust-blas — BLAS bindings
• calebwin/emu — A language for GPGPU numerical computing from a Rust macro
• dimforge/nalgebra — low-dimensional linear algebra library
• GSL
  • GuillaumeGomez/rust-GSL — GSL bindings
• LAPACK
  • stainless-steel/lapack — LAPACK bindings
• 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
  • statrs-dev/statrs — Robust statistical computation library in Rust

Concurrency

• crossbeam-rs/crossbeam – Support for parallelism and low-level concurrency in Rust
• orium/archery [archery] — Library to abstract from Rc/Arc pointer types.
• Rayon – A data parallelism library for Rust
• rustcc/coroutine-rs – Coroutine Library in Rust
• zonyitoo/coio-rs – Coroutine I/O for Rust

Configuration

• andoriyu/uclicious [uclicious] — libUCL based feature-rich configuration library.
• Kixunil/configure_me [configure_me] — library for processing application configuration easily
• mehcode/config-rs [config] — Layered configuration system for Rust applications (with strong support for 12-factor applications).
• softprops/envy - deserialize env vars into typesafe structs

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.
• conradkleinespel/rooster [rooster] — Simple password manager to use in your terminal
• cossacklabs/themis [themis] — a high-level cryptographic library for solving typical data security tasks, best fit for multi-platform apps.
• DaGenix/rust-crypto — cryptographic algorithms in Rust
• dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek — Pure Rust implementation of Curve25519 operations
• dalek-cryptography/ed25519-dalek — Pure Rust implementation of Ed25519 digital signatures
• dalek-cryptography/x25519-dalek — Pure Rust implementation of X25519 key exchange
• debris/tiny-keccak — Pure Rust implementation of the Keccak family (SHA3)
• exonum/exonum [exonum] — extensible framework for blockchain projects
• facebook/opaque-ke — Pure Rust implementation of the recent OPAQUE password-authenticated key exchange.
• gakonst/ark-circom - Arkworks bindings to Circom's R1CS, for Groth16 Proof and Witness generation in Rust.
• klutzy/suruga — A Rust implementation of TLS 1.2
• kornelski/rust-security-framework — Bindings for Security Framework (OSX native)
• libOctavo/octavo — Modular hash and crypto library in Rust
• orion-rs/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.
• racum/rust-djangohashers [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.
• RustCrypto/hashes — Collection of cryptographic hash functions written in pure Rust
• rustls/rustls — A Rust implementation of TLS
• sfackler/rust-native-tls — Bindings for native TLS libraries
• sfackler/rust-openssl — OpenSSL bindings
• sodiumoxide/sodiumoxide — libsodium bindings
• vityafx/randomorg - A random.org client library.
• w3f/schnorrkel - Schnorr VRFs and signatures on the Ristretto group

Data processing

• amv-dev/yata — high perfomance technical analysis library
• bluss/ndarray — N-dimensional array with array views, multidimensional slicing, and efficient operations
• kernelmachine/utah — Dataframe structure and operations in Rust
• pola-rs/polars - Fast feature complete DataFrame library
• weld-project/weld — High-performance runtime for data analytics applications

Data streaming

• infinyon/fluvio - Programmable data streaming platform

Data structures

• becheran/grid [grid] — Provide a two dimensional data structure for rust that is easy to use and fast.
• billyevans/tst [tst] — Ternary search tree collection
• 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.
• mrhooray/kdtree-rs — K-dimensional tree in Rust for fast geospatial indexing and nearest neighbors lookup
• orium/rpds [rpds] — Persistent data structures in Rust.
• RoaringBitmap/roaring-rs – Roaring Bitmaps in Rust
• rust-itertools/itertools —
• tnballo/scapegoat [scapegoat] — Safe, fallible, stack-only alternative to BTreeSet and BTreeMap.
• xfix/enum-map [enum-map] — An optimized map implementation for enums using an array to store values.
• yamafaktory/hypergraph [hypergraph] — Hypergraph is a data structure library to generate directed hypergraphs.

Data visualization

• djduque/pgfplots [pgfplots] — A Rust library to generate publication-quality figures.
• igiagkiozis/plotly — Plotly for Rust.
• milliams/plotlib —
• plotters —
• saresend/gust —

Database

[database]

• NoSQL [nosql]

  • ArangoDB
    • Aragog [aragog] - A Lightweight ArangoDB Object document, relational and graph mapper
    • Arangors [arangors] - An ArangoDB driver for Rust
  • Cassandra [cassandra, cql]
    • AlexPikalov/cdrs [cdrs] — native client written in Rust
    • krojew/cdrs-tokio [cdrs-tokio] - production-ready async Apache Cassandra driver written in pure 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
  • DynamoDB [dynamodb]
    • softprops/dynomite - A library for strongly-typed and convenient interaction with rusoto_dynamodb
  • Elasticsearch [elasticsearch]
    • benashford/rs-es [rs-es] — A Rust client for the Elastic REST API
    • elastic-rs/elastic [elastic] — elastic is an efficient, modular API client for Elasticsearch written in Rust
  • etcd
    • jimmycuadra/rust-etcd [etcd] — A client library for CoreOS's etcd.
    • lodrem/etcd-rs — An asynchronous etcd client for rust
  • ForestDB
    • vhbit/sherwood — ForestDB bindings
  • InfluxDB
    • driftluo/InfluxDBClient-rs — Synchronization interface
  • LevelDB
    • skade/leveldb — LevelDB bindings
  • LMDB [lmdb]
    • vhbit/lmdb-rs [lmdb-rs] — LMDB bindings
  • MongoDB [mongodb]
    • mongodb/mongo-rust-driver [mongodb] — MongoDB bindings
  • PickleDB
    • seladb/pickledb-rs — a lightweight and simple key-value store, heavily inspired by Python's PickleDB.
  • PoloDB
    • vincentdchan/PoloDB - An embedded JSON-based database has API similar to MongoDB.
  • Redis [redis]
    • aembke/fred [fred] - A high level async Redis client for Rust with Tokio.
    • redis-rs — Redis library in Rust
  • RocksDB
    • rust-rocksdb/rust-rocksdb — RocksDB bindings
  • SurrealDB
    • surrealdb/surrealdb — SurrealDB embedded document-graph database
  • UnQLite
    • zitsen/unqlite.rs — UnQLite bindings
  • ZooKeeper
    • bonifaido/rust-zookeeper [zookeeper] — A client library for Apache ZooKeeper.
    • krojew/rust-zookeeper [zookeeper-async] - Async Zookeeper client written 100% in Rust, based on tokio.

• OGM [ogm]

  • Aragog [aragog] - A Lightweight ArangoDB Object document, relational and graph mapper

• ORM [orm]

  • Brendonovich/prisma-client-rust — An autogenerated query builder that provides simple and fully type-safe database access using the Prisma ecosystem.
  • diesel-rs/diesel — an ORM and Query builder for Rust
  • ivanceras/rustorm — an ORM for Rust
  • rbatis/rbatis — Rust ORM Framework High Performance(JSON based)
  • SeaQL/sea-orm — 🐚 An async & dynamic ORM for Rust

• sfackler/r2d2 — generic connection pool

• SQL [sql]

  • Generic
    • launchbadge/sqlx - async PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite connection pool with strong typing support
    • SeaQL/sea-query - 🔱 A dynamic SQL query builder for MySQL, Postgres and SQLite
    • SeaQL/sea-schema - 🌿 SQL schema management suite
  • Microsoft SQL
    • prisma/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]
    • rusqlite — Sqlite3 bindings

Date and time

[date, time]

• chronotope/chrono —
• Mnwa/ms [ms-converter] — it's a library for converting human-like times to milliseconds
• time-rs/time —

Distributed systems

• Antimony
  • antimonyproject/antimony [antimony] — stream processing / distributed computation platform
• Apache Kafka
  • fede1024/rust-rdkafka [rdkafka] — librdkafka bindings
  • gklijs/schema_registry_converter [schema_registry_converter] — to integrate with confluent schema registry
  • kafka-rust/kafka-rust —
• Beanstalkd
  • schickling/rust-beanstalkd — Beanstalkd bindings
• HDFS
  • hyunsik/hdfs-rs [hdfs] — libhdfs bindings

Domain driven design

• serverlesstechnology/cqrs [cqrs-es] — A framework for CQRS and event sourcing with user guide

Email

[email, imap, smtp]

• gsquire/sendgrid-rs — unofficial Rust library for SendGrid API
• jdrouet/catapulte - A microservice to send emails using MRML templates.
• jdrouet/jolimail - A web application to build MRML templates.
• jdrouet/mrml - A library to generate nice email templates working on any mail client.
• lettre/lettre — an SMTP-library for Rust
• staktrace/mailparse [mailparse] — A library for parsing real-world email files
• stalwartlabs/mail-parser [mail-parser] - A fast and robust e-mail parsing library with full MIME support
• stalwartlabs/mail-send [mail-send] - E-mail builder and SMTP client library with DKIM support

Encoding

[encoding]

• ASN.1
  • alex/rust-asn1 — A Rust ASN.1 (DER) serializer
• Binary
  • bincode-org/bincode — A binary encoder/decoder in Rust
  • m4b/goblin [goblin] — cross-platform, zero-copy, and endian-aware binary parsing
• BSON
  • mongodb/bson-rust — Encoding and decoding support for BSON in Rust
• 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
• EDN
  • naomijub/edn-rs [edn-rs] — crate to parse and emit EDN format into Rust types.
• FlatBuffers
  • frol/flatc-rust — FlatBuffers compiler (flatc) integration for Cargo build scripts
• HAR
  • mandrean/har-rs [har] — A HTTP Archive Format (HAR) serialization & deserialization library
• HTML
  • servo/html5ever — High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser
• JSON
  • importcjj/rust-ajson [ajson] — Get JSON values quickly
  • maciejhirsz/json-rust [json] — JSON implementation in Rust
  • 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
  • simd-lite/simd-json [simd-json] — High performance JSON parser based on a port of simdjson
• 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
• ProtocolBuffers
  • stepancheg/rust-protobuf —
  • tokio-rs/prost —
• RON (Rusty Object Notation)
  • https://github.com/ron-rs/ron —
• Serde
  • vityafx/serde-aux - additional tools for using with the serde library.
• TOML
  • toml-rs/toml —
• XML
  • Florob/RustyXML — an XML parser written in Rust
  • media-io/yaserde — Yet Another Serializer/Deserializer specialized for XML
  • netvl/xml-rs — A streaming XML library
  • shepmaster/sxd-document — An XML library in Rust
  • shepmaster/sxd-xpath — An XPath library in Rust
  • tafia/quick-xml — High performance XML pull reader/writer
• YAML
  • chyh1990/yaml-rust — The missing YAML 1.2 implementation for Rust.
  • dtolnay/serde-yaml [serde_yaml] — YAML support for Serde framework
  • vitiral/stfu8 [stfu8] — Sorta Text Format in UTF-8

Filesystem

[filesystem]

• Operations
  • pop-os/dbus-udisks2 [dbus-udisks2] - UDisks2 DBus API
  • pop-os/sys-mount [sys-mount] — High level abstraction for the mount / umount2 system calls.
  • vitiral/path_abs [path_abs] — Absolute serializable path types and associated methods.
  • webdesus/fs_extra — expanding opportunities standard library std::fs and std::io
• Temporary Files
  • 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.

Functional Programming

[functional programming]

• Prelude
  • JasonShin/fp-core.rs — A library for functional programming in Rust
  • myrrlyn/tap - Suffix-Position Pipeline Behavior

Game development

See also Are we game yet?

• Allegro
  • SiegeLord/RustAllegro — Allegro 5 bindings
• Awesome Quads — A curated list of links to miniquad/macroquad-related code & resources
• Awesome wgpu — A curated list of wgpu code and resources
• bracket-lib (previously RLTK)
  • bracket-lib [bracket-lib] - The Roguelike Toolkit (RLTK), implemented for Rust.
• 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)
  • amethyst/specs — Specs Parallel ECS
  • legion — A feature rich high performance ECS library with minimal boilerplate
• Game Engines
  • Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. -
  • Fyrox — Rust Game engine 3D
  • ggez — A lightweight game framework for making 2D games with minimum friction -
  • Kiss3d — A Keep It Simple, Stupid 3d graphics engine written with Rust
  • oxidator — A real time strategy game/engine written with Rust and WebGPU
  • Piston —
  • Unrust — unrust — A pure rust based (webgl 2.0 / native) game engine
• Godot
  • godot-rust/gdnative [gdnative] - Rust bindings to the Godot game engine
• Raylib
  • deltaphc/raylib-rs [raylib] — Rust bindings for raylib
• 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.
  • Warning: Not maintained anymore
• Toornament-rs
  • vityafx/toornament-rs - Toornament.com API bindings for Rust.
• Victorem
  • VictoremWinbringer/Victorem [Victorem] — Easy UDP Game Server and UDP Client framework for creating simple 2D and 3D online game prototype

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 thampiman/reverse-geocoder
• vlopes11/geomorph [geomorph] — conversion between UTM, LatLon and MGRS coordinates

Graph algorithms

• s1ck/graph - A library for high-performant graph algorithms

Graphics

[graphics]

• Font
  • RazrFalcon/rustybuzz - An incremental harfbuzz port to Rust
  • redox-os/rusttype — A pure Rust alternative to libraries like FreeType
• gfx-rs/gfx — A high-performance, bindless graphics API for Rust.
• gfx-rs/wgpu - Native WebGPU implementation based on gfx-hal.
• OpenGL [opengl]
  • brendanzab/gl-rs —
  • glium/glium — safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.
  • glutin — Rust alternative to GLFW
  • Kiss3d — draw simple geometric figures and play with them with one-liners
  • PistonDevelopers/glfw-rs —
• PDF
  • fschutt/printpdf — PDF writing library
  • J-F-Liu/lopdf — PDF document manipulation
  • kaj/rust-pdf —
  • WASM-PDF – Generates PDF files with JavaScript and WASM (WebAssembly)
• Vulkan [vulkan]
  • erupt [erupt] —
  • vulkano [vulkano] —

GUI

[gui]

• autopilot-rs/autopilot-rs — A simple, cross-platform GUI automation library for Rust.
• Cocoa
  • servo/core-foundation-rs —
• DioxusLabs/dioxus - a portable, performant, and ergonomic framework for building cross-platform user interfaces in Rust.
• emilk/egui - Simple, fast, and highly portable immediate mode GUI library for Rust. egui runs on the web, natively, and in your favorite game engine.
• emoon/rust_minifb — minifb is a cross-platform window setup with optional bitmap rendering. It also comes with easy mouse and keyboard input. Primarily designed for prototyping
• FLTK
  • fltk-rs — FLTK Rust bindings
• Flutter
  • flutter-rs — Build flutter desktop app in dart & rust.
  • fzyzcjy/flutter_rust_bridge — High-level memory-safe binding generator for Flutter/Dart <-> Rust
• fschutt/azul — A free, functional, IMGUI-oriented GUI framework for rapid development of desktop applications written in Rust, supported by the Mozilla WebRender rendering engine.
• GTK+ [gtk]
  • gtk-rs/gtk3-rs - GTK3 binding for rust
  • relm — Asynchronous, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm
• iced-rs/iced [iced] — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust focused on simplicity and type-safety. Inspired by Elm.
• ImGui
  • imgui-rs — Rust bindings for ImGui
• IUP
  • Kiss-ui — A simple UI framework built on IUP
• ivanceras/sauron-native - A truly native and cross platform GUI library. One unified code can be run as native GUI, Html Web and TUI.
• libui
  • rust-native-ui/libui-rs — libui bindings .
• Nuklear
  • nuklear-rust — Rust bindings for Nuklear
• OrbTk — The Orbital Widget Toolkit is a multi platform (G)UI toolkit using SDL2
• PistonDevelopers/conrod — An easy-to-use, immediate-mode, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust
• Qt
  • cyndis/qmlrs — QtQuick bindings
  • rust-qt
  • woboq/qmetaobject-rs — Integrate Qml and Rust by building the QMetaObject at compile time.
• rise-ui — Simple component-based cross-Platform GUI Toolkit for developing beautiful and user-friendly interfaces.
• saurvs/nfd-rs — nativefiledialog bindings
• Sciter
  • sciter-sdk/rust-sciter — Sciter bindings
• slint-ui/slint [slint] — Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for embedded devices and desktop applications.
• tauri-apps/tauri — Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend, powered by WRY.
• tauri-apps/wry - Webview Rendering librarY.
• xilem — Successor of the data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit druid.

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.
• rust-cv/cv — Rust CV is a project to implement computer vision algorithms, abstractions, and systems in Rust. #[no_std] is supported where possible.
• teovoinea/steganography [steganography] — A simple steganography library
• twistedfall/opencv-rust — Rust bindings for OpenCV

Language specification

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

Logging

[log]

• estk/log4rs — highly configurable logging framework modeled after Java's Logback and log4j libraries
• jesusprubio/leg — Elegant print for lazy devs. Make your CLIs nicer with minimal effort.
• rbatis/fast_log — Rust async log High-performance asynchronous logging
• rust-lang/log — Logging implementation for Rust
• seanmonstar/pretty-env-logger — A pretty, easy-to-use logger for Rust.
• slog-rs/slog — Structured, composable logging for Rust
• tokio-rs/tracing — An application level tracing framework for async-aware structured logging, error handling, metrics, and more

Macro

• cute
  • mattgathu/cute — Macro for Python-esque list comprehensions in Rust.
• Linq-in-Rust - Macro and methods for C#-LINQ-like expressions.

Markup language

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

Mobile

• Android / iOS
  • ivanschuetz/rust_android_ios — An example of using a shared Rust lib for Android and iOS using rust-swig and cbindgen respectively.
• Generic
  • Geal/rust_on_mobile
• iOS
  • TimNN/cargo-lipo — A cargo lipo subcommand which automatically creates a universal library for use with your iOS application.

Network programming

• Bluetooth
  • bluez/bluer [bluer] — Official BlueZ bindings for Rust.
• CoAP
  • Covertness/coap-rs — A Constrained Application Protocol(CoAP) library for Rust.
• Docker
  • fussybeaver/bollard — Docker daemon API in Rust
• FTP
  • mattnenterprise/rust-ftp — an FTP client for Rust
• gRPC
  • tikv/grpc-rs — The gRPC library for Rust built on C Core library and futures
• HTTP
  • Hurl — Run and test HTTP requests with plain text and libcurl
• IPNetwork
  • achanda/ipnetwork — A library to work with IP networks in pure Rust
  • candrew/netsim — A Rust library for network simulation and testing
  • jesusprubio/online — Library to check your Internet connectivity
• Low level
  • actix/actix — Actor library for Rust
  • dylanmckay/protocol — Custom TCP/UDP protocol definitions
  • libpnet/libpnet — A cross-platform, low level networking
  • smoltcp-rs/smoltcp — A standalone, event-driven TCP/IP stack that is designed for bare-metal, real-time systems
  • tokio-rs/tokio — A network application framework for rapid development and highly scalable production deployments of clients and servers.
• message-io
  • lemunozm/message-io — Event-driven message library to build network applications easy and fast. Supports TCP, UDP and WebSockets.
• MQTT
  • bytebeamio/rumqtt - A library for developers to build applications that communicate with the MQTT protocol over TCP and WebSockets, with or without TLS.
• NanoMsg
  • thehydroimpulse/nanomsg.rs — nanomsg bindings
• NATS
  • nats-io/nats.rs — Rust client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system.
• Nng
  • neachdainn/nng-rs [Nng] — Nng (nanomsg v2) bindings
• NNTP
  • mattnenterprise/rust-nntp [nntp] — an NNTP client for Rust
• P2P
  • libp2p/rust-libp2p — The Rust Implementation of libp2p networking stack.
• POP3
  • mattnenterprise/rust-pop3 [pop3] — A POP3 client for Rust
• QUIC
  • cloudflare/quiche — cloudflare implementation of the QUIC transport protocol and HTTP/3
  • mozilla/neqo — an Implementation of QUIC written in Rust
  • quinn-rs/quinn — Futures-based QUIC implementation in Rust
• Raknet
  • b23r0/rust-raknet — RakNet Protocol implementation by Rust
• RPC
  • ENQT-GmbH/remoc [remoc] - Remoc provides channels (broadcast, mpsc, oneshot, watch) similar to Tokio's and trait calling over any remote transport.
  • smallnest/rpcx-rs — A RPC library for Rust for developing microservices in easy and simple way.
• Socket.io
  • 1c3t3a/rust-socketio [rust_socketio] — an implementation of a socket.io client written in Rust.
• SSH
  • alexcrichton/ssh2-rs — libssh2 bindings
  • Thrussh [thrussh] — an SSH library written from scratch in Rust, backed by libsodium
• Stomp
  • zslayton/stomp-rs — A STOMP 1.2 client implementation in Rust
• ZeroMQ
  • erickt/rust-zmq — ZeroMQ bindings

Parsing

• Folyd/robotstxt - A native Rust port of Google's robots.txt parser and matcher C++ library
• freestrings/jsonpath — JsonPath engine written in Rust. Webassembly and Javascript support too
• kevinmehall/rust-peg — Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) parser generator
• lalrpop/lalrpop — LR(1) parser generator for Rust
• m4rw3r/chomp – A fast monadic-style parser combinator
• Marwes/combine — parser combinator library
• nrc/zero [zero] — zero-allocation parsing of binary data
• pest-parser/pest — The Elegant Parser
• ptal/oak — A typed PEG parser generator (compiler plugin)
• replicadse/wavefront_rs — A parser for the Wavefront OBJ format.
• rust-bakery/nom — parser combinator library
• s-panferov/queryst — A query string parsing library for Rust inspired by gs
• softdevteam/grmtools - A LR parser with better error correction

Peripherals

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

Platform specific

• Cross-platform
  • svartalf/rust-battery — Cross-platform information about the notebook batteries
  • vityafx/thread-priority - Simple, crossplatform thread priority management.
• FreeBSD
  • fubarnetes/libjail-rs [jail] — Rust implementation of a FreeBSD jail library
• Linux
  • hannobraun/inotify-rs — inotify bindings
  • pop-os/distinst — Linux distribution installer
  • yaa110/rust-iptables [iptables] — iptables bindings
• Unix-like
  • nix-rust/nix — Unix-like API bindings
  • rustix — Safe Rust bindings to POSIX/Unix/Linux/Winsock2 syscalls
  • zargony/fuse-rs — FUSE bindings
• Windows
  • retep998/winapi-rs — Windows API bindings

Scripting

[scripting]

• duckscript — Simple, extendable and embeddable scripting language.
• fleabitdev/gamelisp — A Lisp-like scripting language for Rust game development
• gluon-lang/gluon — A small, statically-typed, functional programming language
• KusionStack/KCLVM - A constraint-based record & functional language mainly used in configuration and policy scenarios.
• metacall/core [metacall] — Cross-platform Polyglot Runtime which supports NodeJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, C#, Wasm, Java, Cobol and more.
• mun — A compiled, statically-typed scripting language with first class hot reloading support
• murarth/ketos — A Lisp dialect functional programming language serving as a scripting and extension language for rust
• PistonDevelopers/dyon — A rusty dynamically typed scripting language
• rhaiscript/rhai — A tiny and fast embedded scripting language resembling a combination of JavaScript and Rust
• rune-rs/rune — An embeddable dynamic programming language for Rust

Simulation

[simulation]

• nyx-space - High fidelity, fast, reliable and validated astrodynamical toolkit library, used for spacecraft mission design and orbit determination

Task scheduling

• delay-timer — Time-manager of delayed tasks. Like crontab, but asynchronous tasks are possible.

Template engine

• Handlebars
  • botika/yarte — Yarte stands for Yet Another Rust Template Engine, is the fastest template engine.
  • sunng87/handlebars-rust — Handlebars template engine with inheritance, custom helper support.
• HTML
  • djc/askama — template rendering engine based on Jinja
  • kaj/ructe — HTML template system for Rust
  • Keats/tera — template engine based on Jinja2 and the Django template language.
  • lambda-fairy/maud — compile-time HTML templates
  • Stebalien/horrorshow-rs — compile-time HTML templates
• Mustache
  • rustache/rustache —

Text processing

• becheran/wildmatch [wildmatch] — Simple string matching with questionmark- and star-wildcard operator
• BurntSushi/suffix — Linear time suffix array construction (with Unicode support)
• BurntSushi/tabwriter — Elastic tab stops (i.e., text column alignment)
• cpc - Parses and calculates strings of math with support for units and unit conversion, from 1+2 to 1% of round(1 lightyear / 14!s to km/h).
• Daniel-Liu-c0deb0t/triple_accel [triple_accel] - Rust edit distance routines accelerated using SIMD; supports fast Hamming, Levenshtein, restricted Damerau-Levenshtein, etc. distance calculations and string search
• fancy-regex/fancy-regex [fancy-regex] - Regular expressions implementation designed to support a relatively rich set of features such as look-around and backtracking.
• greyblake/whatlang-rs — Natural language detection library based on trigrams
• Lucretiel/joinery [joinery] – Generic string + iterable joining
• mgeisler/textwrap [textwrap] — Word wrap text (with support for hyphenation)
• ps1dr3x/easy_reader — A reader that allows forwards, backwards and random navigations through the lines of huge files without consuming iterators
• pwoolcoc/ngrams [ngrams] — Construct n-grams from arbitrary iterators
• rust-lang/regex — Regular expressions (RE2 style)
• strsim-rs — String similarity metrics
• yaa110/rake-rs [rake] — Multilingual implementation of RAKE algorithm for Rust

Text search

• andylokandy/simsearch-rs [simsearch] — A simple and lightweight fuzzy search engine that works in memory, searching for similar strings
• BurntSushi/fst [fst] —
• CurrySoftware/perlin [perlin]
• meilisearch/MeiliSearch — Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API.
• tantivy [tantivy] — A horse-speed full-text search engine library written in Rust.

Unsafe

• zerocopy — Utilities for safely reinterpreting arbitrary byte sequences as native Rust types

Virtualization

• beneills/quantum — Advanced Rust quantum computer simulator
• bytecodealliance/wasmtime — A standalone runtime for WebAssembly
• chromium/chromiumos/platform/crosvm CrOSVM — Enables Chrome OS to run Linux apps inside a fast, secure virtualized environment
• oxidecomputer/propolis - Rust-based userspace program for illumos bhyve kernel modules
• saurvs/hypervisor-rs — Hardware-accelerated virtualization on OS X
• unicorn-rs/unicorn-rs — Rust bindings for the unicorn CPU emulator

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
  • sauron - Client side web framework which closely adheres to The Elm Architecture.
  • seed — A Rust framework for creating web apps
  • stdweb — A standard library for the client-side Web
  • yew — Rust framework for making client web apps
• HTTP Client
  • alexcrichton/curl-rust — libcurl bindings
  • async-graphql - A GraphQL server library implemented in Rust
  • DoumanAsh/yukikaze [yukikaze] — Beautiful and elegant Yukikaze is little HTTP client library based on hyper.
  • graphql-client — Typed, correct GraphQL requests and responses in Rust.
  • hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
  • seanmonstar/reqwest — an ergonomic HTTP Client for Rust.
• 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.
  • 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.
  • GildedHonour/frank_jwt — JSON Web Token implementation in Rust.
  • Gotham — A flexible web framework that does not sacrifice safety, security or speed.
  • Graphul — An Express-inspired web framework written in Rust.
  • handlebars-rust — an Iron web framework middleware.
  • hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
  • Iron — A middleware-based server framework
  • Juniper — GraphQL server library for Rust
  • miketang84/sapper — A lightweight web framework built on async hyper, implemented in Rust language.
  • Nickel — inspired by Express
  • Ogeon/rustful — A RESTful web framework for Rust
  • poem-web/poem - A full-featured and easy-to-use web framework with the Rust programming language.
  • 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
  • Salvo — an easy to use webframework base on hyper and tokio.
  • Saphir — A progressive web framework with low-level control, without the pain.
  • seanmonstar/warp — A super-easy, composable, web server framework for warp speeds.
  • tiny-http — Low level HTTP server library
  • tokio/axum - Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper
  • tomaka/rouille — Web framework in Rust
• Miscellaneous
  • cargonauts — A web framework intended for building maintainable, well-factored web apps.
  • causal-agent/scraper [scraper] - HTML parsing and querying with CSS selectors.
  • hominee/dyer [dyer] - dyer is designed for reliable, flexible and fast Request-Response based service, including data processing, web-crawling and so on, providing some friendly, flexible, comprehensive features without compromising speed.
  • juhaku/utoipa - Simple, Fast, Code first and Compile time generated OpenAPI documentation for Rust
  • osohq/oso [oso] - A policy engine for authorization that's embedded in your application.
  • pwoolcoc/soup [soup] — A library similar to Python's BeautifulSoup, designed to enable quick and easy manipulation and querying of HTML documents.
  • pyrossh/rust-embed — A macro to embed static assets into the rust binary
  • serenity-rs/serenity [serenity] - A Rust library for the Discord API
  • softprops/openapi — A library for processing openapi spec files
  • svix/svix-webhooks [svix]- A library for sending webhooks and verifying signatures.
  • tbot [tbot] - Make cool Telegram bots with Rust easily
  • teloxide/teloxide - An elegant Telegram bots framework for Rust
  • 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
  • cobalt-org/cobalt.rs — Static site generator written in Rust
  • FuGangqiang/mdblog.rs [mdblog] — Static site generator from markdown files.
  • getzola/zola [zola] — An opinionated static site generator with everything built-in.
  • grego/blades [blades] — Blazing fast dead simple static site generator.
  • leven-the-blog/leven [leven] — A simple, parallelized blog generator.
• WebSocket
  • housleyjk/ws-rs — lightweight, event-driven WebSockets for Rust
  • rust-websocket — A framework for dealing with WebSocket connections (both clients and servers)
  • 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 — A very simple urlshortener library for Rust.

Registries

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

• 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.
• Crates — The official public registry for Rust/Cargo.
• w4/chartered - A private, authenticated, permissioned Cargo registry

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.
  • Rust: Hack Without Fear! — Presented by Nicholas Matsakis @ C++Now 2018
  • Shipping a Solid Rust Crate — Presented by Michael Gattozzi @ RustConf 2017
• Discover Rust Libraries & Code Snippets - A curated list of Rust libraries, authors, kits, tutorials & learning resources on kandi
• Learning
  • Awesome Rust Streaming - A community curated list of livestreams about Rust.
  • awesome-rust-mentors — A list of helpful Rust mentors willing to take mentees and eductate them about Rust and programming.
  • Build a language VM
  • CodeCrafters.io — Build your own Redis, Git, Docker, or SQLite in Rust
  • Easy Rust - Learn Rust in easy English.
  • exercism.org — programming exercises that help you learn new concepts in Rust.
  • Hands-on Rust - A hands-on guide to learning Rust by making games - by Herbert Wolverson (paid)
  • 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.
  • Little Book of Rust Books - Curated list of rust books and how-tos.
  • Programming Community Curated Resources for Learning Rust — A list of recommended resources voted by the programming community.
  • Refactoring to Rust - A book that introduces to Rust language.
  • 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 for professionals — A quick introduction to Rust for experienced software developers.
  • Rust Gym - A big collection of coding interview problems solved in Rust.
  • Rust in Action — A hands-on guide to systems programming with Rust by Tim McNamara (paid)
  • Rust in Motion — A video series by Carol Nichols and Jake Goulding (paid)
  • Rust Language Cheat Sheet
  • Rust Online Courses at Classpert — A list of Rust online courses (paid) from Classpert Online Course Search
  • Rust Tiếng Việt - Learn Rust in Vietnamese.
  • rust-how-do-i-start - A repo dedicated to answering the question: "So, Rust. How do I start?". A beginner only hand-picked resources and learning track.
  • rust-learning — A collection of useful resources to learn Rust
  • Rustlings — small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code
  • Rusty CS - A Computer Science Curriculum that helps practice the acquired academic knowledge in Rust
  • stdx — Learn these crates first as an extension to std
  • Take your first steps with Rust - Lay the foundation of knowledge you need to build fast and effective programs in Rust.
  • University of Pennsylvania's Comp Sci Rust Programming Course
• Podcasts
  • New Rustacean — A podcast about learning Rust
  • Rustacean Station — A community project for creating podcast content for Rust
• Rust Design Patterns
• Rust Guidelines
• Rust Servers, Services and Apps - MEAP - Build backend servers, services, and front-ends in Rust to get fast, reliable, and maintainable applications.
• Rust Subreddit — A subreddit(forum) where rust related questions, articles and resources are posted and discussed
• RustBooks — list of RustBooks
• RustCamp 2015 Talks
• RustViz — generates visualizations from simple Rust programs to assist users in better understanding the Rust Lifetime and Borrowing mechanism.

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