Awesome Rust

A curated list of Rust code and resources.

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Applications
Development tools
- Build system
- Debugging
- Deployment
- Embedded
- FFI
- Formatters
- IDEs
- Profiling
- Services
- Static analysis
- Testing
- Transpiling
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Libraries
Registries
Resources
License

Applications

ad-si/Woxi [woxi] - An interpreter for the Wolfram Language powered by Rust.
alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU enhanced terminal emulator
Andromeda - JavaScript & TypeScript runtime built from the ground up in Rust 🦀 and powered by The Nova Engine.
arimxyer/models [modelsdev] - A TUI for browsing AI models, benchmarks, and coding agents
Arti - An implementation of Tor. (So far, it's a not-very-complete client. But watch this space!)
asm-cli-rust - An interactive assembly shell.
clash-verge-rev/clash-verge-rev - A cross-platform, modern Clash GUI based on tauri & rust, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux.
cloudflare/boringtun - A Userspace WireGuard VPN Implementation
DBX - A lightweight, open-source database management tool built with Tauri, supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, and more.
defguard - Enterprise Open Source SSO & WireGuard VPN with real 2FA/MFA
denoland/deno - A secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime built with V8 and Tokio
doprz/dipc - Convert your favorite images and wallpapers with your favorite color palettes/themes
EasyTier - A simple, full-featured and decentralized mesh VPN with WireGuard support.
Edit - A simple editor for simple needs.
fcsonline/drill - A HTTP load testing application inspired by Ansible syntax
fend - Arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator
Fractalide - Simple microservices
GCWing/BitFun - A cross-platform desktop AI agent with a Rust runtime that works in real repositories and can drive the browser, terminal, and desktop applications
giga-grabber - A very fast and relatively stable Mega downloader
glzr-io/glazewm - A tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3wm, with YAML config, multi-monitor support, and keyboard-driven commands
google/mdbook-i18n-helpers [mdbook-i18n-helpers] - Internationalization and rendering extensions for mdbook.
habitat - A tool created by Chef to build, deploy, and manage applications.
Herd - an experimental HTTP load testing application
hickory-dns - A DNS-server
innernet - An overlay or private mesh network that uses Wireguard under the hood
jedisct1/flowgger - A fast, simple and lightweight data collector
kalker - A scientific calculator that supports math-like syntax with user-defined variables, functions, derivation, integration, and complex numbers. Cross-platform + WASM support
kftray - A cross-platform system tray app for managing and sharing multiple kubectl port-forward configurations.
kytan - High Performance Peer-to-Peer VPN
linkerd/linkerd2-proxy - Ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes.
LWE - Linux desktop app for browsing, managing, and applying Wallpaper Engine content, built with Rust and Tauri.
lzanini/mdbook-katex [mdbook-katex] - A preprocessor for mdBook, using KaTeX to render LaTeX math expressions.
MaidSafe - A decentralized platform.
mayocream/koharu - An ML-powered manga translator with automatic speech bubble detection, OCR, inpainting, and LLM translation, built with Candle and Tauri
mdBook - A command line utility to create books from markdown files
Mega - A monorepo & monolithic codebase management system that supports Git, also is an unofficial open source implementation of Google Piper.
Michael-F-Bryan/mdbook-linkcheck [mdbook-linkcheck] - A backend for mdbook which will check your links for you.
mirrord - Connect your local process and your cloud environment, and run local code in cloud conditions
mmalmi/nostr-vpn [nvpn] - Tailscale-style private mesh VPN built on Nostr identities and a FIPS-backed data plane. Features native cross-platform apps (macOS, Linux, Windows, Mobile) and a CLI/daemon.
newdee/magpie - Local-first Spotlight-style launcher that searches your GitHub stars, local files, images, and videos semantically, fully on-device.
nicohman/eidolon - A steam and drm-free game registry and launcher for linux and macosx
openma-ai/Martty - A Rust/ratatui terminal client for DeepSeek Harness and other ACP-compatible coding agents.
OxideTerm - A cross-platform SSH terminal client and local terminal emulator built with Tauri 2.0 and pure-Rust SSH (russh). Features multiplexed connections, SFTP file manager, built-in IDE (CodeMirror 6), port forwarding (-L/-R/-D), Grace Period auto-reconnect, plugin system, AI assistant, encrypted export (.oxide), and 11 languages.
Pijul - A patch-based distributed version control system
provrb/OBDium - A cross-platform Tauri-based application for everything vehicle diagnostics. Connect your vehicle over an ELM327 adapter and read trouble codes, live OBD-II data, I/M readiness tests, and more!
qiluo-admin - An enterprise-grade rapid development platform (Axum + SeaORM + JWT + VUE3, supports MySQL/Postgres/SQLite)
Rauthy - OpenID Connect Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management
Rio - A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator powered by WebGPU, focusing to run in desktops and browsers.
rkik - CLI tool designed for stateless and passive NTP inspection, just as dig or ping are for DNS and ICMP. It supports async requests and continuous monitoring.
run [run-kit] - Universal multi-language runner and smart REPL (25+ languages: Python, JS, Go, C, etc.).
runmat-org/runmat [runmat] - A runtime for MATLAB-syntax numerical programs, with GPU acceleration through wgpu.
Rust Iot Platform - A high-performance IoT development platform built with Rust, designed for multi-protocol support and real-time data processing. This platform supports MQTT, WebSockets (WS), TCP, and CoAP protocols, making it highly flexible for diverse IoT applications.
rx - Vi inspired Modern Pixel Art Editor
Ryot - A self hosted application to track media consumption, fitness, etc.
s00d/switchshuttle - Cross-platform system tray app for organizing and running predefined terminal commands with global hotkeys, nested menus, and JSON-backed configuration (Tauri + Vue).
Saga Reader - A Blazing-Fast and Extremely-Lightweight Internet Reader driven by AI.Supports fetching of search engine information and RSS.
Servo - A prototype web browser engine
shoes - A multi-protocol proxy server
shuttle - A serverless platform.
Sniffnet - Cross-platform application to monitor your network traffic with ease
SWC - super-fast TypeScript / JavaScript compiler
TabbyML/tabby - Self-hosted AI coding assistant, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot with GPU support and OpenAPI interface
temps - A self-hosted PaaS that replaces Vercel, analytics, error tracking, and uptime monitoring with a single Rust binary
tiny - A terminal IRC client
topjohnwu/Magisk - A suite of open source tools for customizing Android, providing root access, boot image manipulation, and systemless modifications
tunnetio/Tunnet - Private mesh networking with public tunnels, identity-based SSH, and P2P file transfer
Tura-AI/tura - A local coding agent for terminal, desktop GUI, and command-line workflows, with persistent task state and evidence-backed verification.
Typst - A markup-based typesetting system
UpVPN - WireGuard VPN client for macOS, Linux, and Windows built on Tauri.
vortix - Terminal UI for WireGuard and OpenVPN with real-time telemetry, leak detection, and kill switch
vproxy - A high-performance HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 proxy 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
WinterJS - A secure JavaScript runtime built with SpiderMonkey and Axum
zellij - A terminal multiplexer (workspace) with batteries included
Zephyr - A modern, lightweight, and secure Mihomo (Clash Meta) GUI client built with Tauri.

Audio and Music

AreevAI/flowcat - Native-Rust runtime for real-time voice AI agents (phone + WebRTC), self-hosted single binary, pipecat-compatible
dano - A hashdeep/md5tree (but much more) for media files
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.
Festival - A local music player/server/client
figsoda/mmtc [mmtc] - Minimal mpd terminal client that aims to be simple yet highly configurable
Glicol - Graph-oriented live coding language, for collaborative musicking in browsers.
LargeModGames/spotatui [spotatui] - A Spotify terminal client with native streaming, synced lyrics, and real-time audio visualization
mierak/rmpc [rmpc] - A modern and configurable, terminal based MPD Client with album art support
ncspot - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
OpenMeters - Fast, simple, and professional audio metering/visualization for Linux written in Rust.
Pinepods - A rust based podcast management system with multi-user support. Pinepods utilizes a central database so aspects like listen time and themes follow from device to device. With clients built using Tauri, it's a full cross-platform listening solution!
PodFetch - A self-hosted podcast manager that automatically downloads new episodes, with a web UI for listening and a GPodder-compatible sync API for mobile apps like AntennaPod.
Polaris - A music streaming application.
rusty-amp - A complete guitar amp and pedalboard rig with external plugins support that runs right in your terminal.
Spotify Player - A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity.
Spotifyd - An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon.
termusic - Music Player TUI written
tunein-cli - Browse and listen to thousands of radio stations across the globe right from your terminal
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.

Blockchain

Anchor - Anchor is the leading development framework for building secure Solana programs (smart contracts).
artemis - A simple, modular, and fast framework for writing MEV bots.
Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision [sv] - A 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
ChainX - Fully Decentralized Interchain Crypto Asset Management on Polkadot.
CITA - A high performance blockchain kernel for enterprise users.
coinbase-pro-rs - Coinbase pro client, supports sync/async/websocket
datahaven-xyz/datahaven - AI-First Decentralized Storage secured by EigenLayer.
Diem - Diem’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.
dusk-network/rusk - Reference implementation of Dusk, a privacy-focused, scalable FMI for real-world assets (RWA) and compliant financial applications.
electrumrs - An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server.
equilibriumco/beerus - Beerus is a trustless StarkNet Light Client, ⚡blazing fast ⚡
ethabi - Encode and decode smart contract invocations.
ethaddrgen - Custom Ethereum vanity address generator
etk - etk is a collection of tools for writing, reading, and analyzing EVM bytecode.
Forest - Filecoin implementation
Foundry - Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development.
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.
Hyperlane - Framework for permissionless, modular interoperability. The offchain clients are written in Rust, as well as the smart contracts for Solana VM and CosmWasm.
HyperSync [hypersync-client] - Client for Envio's HyperSync, a blockchain data API that returns filtered blocks, transactions and logs as an alternative to JSON-RPC.
ibc-rs - Implementation of the Interblockchain Communication protocol
infincia/bip39-rs [bip39] - Implementation of BIP39.
interBTC - Trustless and fully decentralized Bitcoin bridge to Polkadot and Kusama.
Joystream - A user governed video platform
Kaspa - The fastest, open-source, decentralized & fully scalable Layer-1 in the world.
Lighthouse - Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL) Client
linera-io/linera-protocol - A decentralized blockchain infrastructure designed for highly scalable, low-latency Web3 applications
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.
opensea-rs - 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-sdk - The Parity Polkadot Blockchain SDK
pragma-org/amaru - A Cardano node client written in Rust.
reth - Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol.
revm - Revolutionary Machine (revm) is a fast Ethereum virtual machine.
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. 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 - ErgoTree interpreter and wallet-related features.
starkware-libs/cairo-vm - Implementation of the Cairo VM
Subspace - The first layer-one blockchain that can fully resolve the blockchain trilemma by simultaneously achieving scalability, security, and decentralization.
Sui - A next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language.
svm-rs - Solidity-Compiler Version Manager.
tempoxyz/tempo - A blockchain built for stablecoin payments at scale, with EVM compatibility, sub-second finality, and native smart account features, built on the Reth SDK
tendermint-rs - Tendermint blockchain data structures and clients
wagyu [wagyu] - Library for generating cryptocurrency wallets
zcash - Zcash is an implementation of the "Zerocash" protocol.

Database

apecloud/ape-dts - Data Transfer Suite. Provides data replication between MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, ClickHouse, and more.
Atomic-Server [atomic-server] - NoSQL graph database with realtime updates, dynamic indexing and easy-to-use GUI for CMS purposes.
ayarotsky/redis-shield - A Redis module that implements the token-bucket algorithm as a native command for high-performance rate limiting
CozoDB - A transactional, relational database that uses Datalog and focuses on graph data and algorithms. Time-travel-capable, and fast!
Curvine - Curvine is a high-performance, concurrent distributed cache system written in Rust, designed for low-latency and high-throughput workloads in AI,Bigdata etc.
darkbird [darkbird] - HighConcurrency, RealTime, InMemory storage inspired by erlang mnesia
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
dsplce-co/supabase-plus [supabase-plus] - A batteries-included command-line utility that extends the official Supabase CLI
erikgrinaker/toydb - Distributed SQL database, written as a learning project.
Garage [garage] - S3-compatible distributed object storage service designed for self-hosting at a small-to-medium scale.
GlueSQL - Rust library for SQL databases that includes a parser (sqlparser-rs), an execution layer, and a variety of storage options, both persistent and non-persistent, all in one package.
Goldziher/scythe - Polyglot SQL compiler and linter that generates type-safe code from SQL with schema-aware linting.
GreptimeDB - An open-source, cloud-native, distributed time-series database with PromQL/SQL/Python supported.
HelixDB - A powerful, graph-vector database for intelligent data storage for RAG and AI
Hiqlite - highly-available, embeddable, raft-based SQLite + cache
hydra-db/hydradb - Object-store-native distributed graph database with OpenCypher queries, GraphBLAS traversal, and Neo4j-compatible Bolt connectivity.
indradb - Graph database
KiteSQL - SQL as a Function for Rust
lancedb [vectordb] - A serverless, low-latency vector database for AI applications
Lucid - High performance and distributed KV store accessible through a HTTP API.
Materialize - Streaming SQL database powered by Timely Dataflow 💲
microsoft/pg_durable - Durable execution inside PostgreSQL. Long-running, fault-tolerant SQL functions with automatic checkpointing, crash recovery, and parallel execution. Zero infrastructure - runs as a PostgreSQL extension built with pgrx and Rust.
native_db [native_db] - Drop-in, embedded database for multi-platform apps (server, desktop, mobile). Sync Rust types effortlessly
Neon - Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
NoKV-Lab/NoKV - AI-native distributed filesystem.
noria [noria] - Dynamically changing, partially-stateful data-flow for web application backends
oxigraph/oxigraph [oxigraph] - graph database implementing the SPARQL standard
ParadeDB - ParadeDB is an Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres, designed for real-time search and analytics.
ParityDB - Fast and reliable database, optimised for read operation
pgdogdev/pgdog - A fast proxy for scaling PostgreSQL with connection pooling, load balancing, and sharding.
Picodata [picodata-plugin] - Distributed PostgreSQL-compatible database with a plugin model in Rust; Redis and Cassandra wire compatibility via commercial plugins.
PRQL [prqlc] - A modern language for transforming data, compiling to readable SQL.
PumpkinDB - an event sourcing database engine
Qdrant - An open source vector similarity search engine with extended filtering support
Qrlew/qrlew [qrlew] - The SQL-to-SQL Differential Privacy layer
RisingWaveLabs/RisingWave - the next-generation streaming database in the cloud
RustFS [RustFS] - 🚀 RustFS is an open-source,S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
ruvnet/ruvector [ruvector-core] - A self-learning vector database and cognitive container that runs LLMs locally and scales horizontally.
RyanCodrai/turbovec [turbovec] - A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with SIMD-accelerated search and Python bindings
sabiql [sabiql] - Fast, driverless, Vim-first database TUI with safe editing and ER diagrams.
samyama-ai/samyama-graph - Rust-native graph-vector database for GraphRAG, knowledge graphs, vector search, and graph analytics.
seppo0010/rsedis - A Redis reimplementation.
Skytable - A multi-model NoSQL database
sled - A (beta) modern embedded database
SQLSync - Multiplayer offline-first SQLite
SurrealDB - A scalable, distributed, document-graph database
tabularis - A lightweight, developer-focused database management tool, built with Tauri and React.
teaql/teaql-rs [teaql-core] - A model-driven runtime with typed queries, governed mutations, and SQL providers
TerminusDB - open source graph database and document store
tikv - A distributed KV database in Rust
tokio-rs/toasty [toasty] - A cozy, easy ORM for Rust supporting SQL (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and DynamoDB with derive macros, type-safe queries, and database-specific feature exposure.
Tonbo - Tonbo is an embedded persistent database built on Apache Arrow & Parquet
TrailBase - A fast, lightweight, single-file FireBase alternative with type-safe APIs, built-in V8 JS/ES6/TS engine, auth and admin dashboard
tsink - Embedded time-series database for Rust
Turso - Turso Database is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite.
USearch - Similarity Search Engine for Vectors and Strings
valentinus - Next generation vector database built with LMDB bindings
VelesDB [velesdb-core] - Embeddable, local-first database whose tri-engine fuses vector search, a property graph, and a columnar store behind one query language (VelesQL), in a single binary. Ships an in-core agentic-memory SDK — semantic / episodic / procedural — with cross-session why() recall that traverses the graph to surface linked facts vector search alone misses.
vorot93/libmdbx-rs [mdbx-sys] - 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.
whispem/minikv - Distributed, multi-tenant key-value and object store with Raft consensus, WAL durability, time-series API, vector search, and S3-compatible endpoints. Production-oriented with Helm chart, Grafana dashboards, and Python SDK.
WooriDB - General purpose time serial database inspired by Crux and Datomic.

Embedded

embassy-rs/embassy [embassy] - Next-generation async/await framework for embedded Rust with HALs for STM32, nRF, RP, ESP32, and more. Features embassy-time, embassy-net, embassy-usb, and low-power support.
infinition/waveshare-watch-rs - 100% Rust no_std smartwatch firmware for Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06. Features QSPI 80 MHz DMA display, Embassy async runtime, event-driven power management with Always-On Display.
rmk - A feature-rich keyboard firmware.
rtic-rs/rtic [rtic] - Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency framework for building embedded real-time systems.
uefi-rs - Rusty wrapper for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. This crate makes it easy to develop Rust software that leverages safe, convenient, and performant abstractions for UEFI functionality.

Emulators

CHIP-8
- ColinEberhardt/wasm-rust-chip8 - A WebAssembly CHIP-8 emulator.
- starrhorne/chip8-rust - chip8 emulator
Commodore 64
- kondrak/rust64 - Commodore 64 emulator
Flash Player
- Ruffle - Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator. Ruffle targets both the desktop and the web using WebAssembly.
Gameboy
- Gekkio/mooneye-gb - A Game Boy research project and emulator
- joamag/boytacean - GameBoy Color emulator that runs on the Web using WebAssembly.
- mohanson/gameboy - Full featured Cross-platform GameBoy emulator. Forever boys!.
- mvdnes/rboy - A Gameboy Emulator
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.
IBM PC
- MartyPC - An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust.
Intel 8080 CPU
- mohanson/i8080 - Intel 8080 CPU emulator
iOS
- touchHLE - High-level emulator for iPhone OS apps
iPod
- clicky - A clickwheel iPod emulator (WIP)
NES
- koute/pinky - A NES emulator
- pcwalton/sprocketnes - A NES emulator
Nintendo 64
- gopher64 - N64 emulator written in Rust
Nintendo DS
- dust - A Nintendo DS emulator
PlayStation 4
- Obliteration - Experimental PS4 emulator for Windows, macOS and Linux
Shockwave Player
- DirPlayer - A web-compatible Shockwave Player emulator written in Rust
ZX Spectrum
- rustzx/rustzx -

File manager

broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees (get an overview of a directory, even a big one; find a directory then cd to it; never lose track of file hierarchy while you search; manipulate your files, ...), further reading dystroy.org/broot
elio-fm/elio [elio] - Batteries-included terminal file manager with rich previews, bulk actions, and trash support.
FileSSH - A fast and easy to use TUI to manage files on a remote server, including quick SSH session creation, in-place file editing and more!
joshuto - ranger-like terminal file manager
moyangzhan/mango-finder - Search your files using nature language
pikeru - File picker for linux with good thumbnails and search
spacedriveapp/spacedrive - A file manager built on a virtual distributed filesystem.
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
yazi - Blazing fast terminal file manager, based on async I/O.

Finance

Games

Graphics

dps/rust-raytracer - An implementation of a very simple raytracer based on Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley.
flxzt/rnote - Sketch and take handwritten notes.
ivanceras/svgbob - converts ASCII diagrams into SVG graphics
KaminariOS/rustracer - A PBR glTF 2.0 renderer based on Vulkan ray-tracing.
Limeth/euclider - A real-time 4D CPU ray tracer
linebender/resvg - An SVG rendering library.
monfa-red/lini [lini] - A small language for every kind of figure — diagrams, charts, sequences, schematics, technical drawings — compiled from plain text to themeable SVG
museslabs/phonto - GPU-accelerated video wallpaper program for Wayland and macOS, written in Rust.
rodrigorc/papercraft - A tool to unwrap 3D models and create them in paper with scissors and glue.
rustq/vue-skia - Skia based 2d graphics vue rendering library. It is based on Rust to implement software rasterization to perform rendering.
storytold/artcraft - An AI-powered IDE and tangible computing surface for molding scenes, videos, and images like clay.
turnage/valora - A library for generative fine art
Twinklebear/tray_rust - A ray tracer
wahn/rs_pbrt - Implements a counterpart to the PBRT book's (3rd edition) C++ code.

Image processing

Darkly - Entropic editor for digital artists and painters.
Graphite - Vector-based graphics editor.
Imager - Automated image optimization.
oxipng [oxipng] - Multithreaded PNG optimizer written in Rust.
sorairolake/favico [favico] - An utility for creating favicons
Sprite Fusion Pixel Snapper - A CLI and WebAssembly tool that cleans up AI-generated pixel art to get pixel-perfect pixel art sprites (MIT).
visioncortex/vtracer [vtracer] - A raster to vector graphics converter (jpg/png to svg).

Industrial automation

dora-rs/dora [dora-cli] - A fast and simple dataflow-oriented framework for building robotic and multi-AI applications, with Python, Rust, and C/C++ APIs
locka99/opcua - A OPC UA library.
slowtec/tokio-modbus - A tokio-based modbus library.

Message Queue

lonewolf-io/Narwhal - An extensible pub/sub messaging server for edge applications.
Rmqtt - MQTT Server/MQTT Broker — Scalable distributed MQTT message broker for IoT in the 5G era.
RobustMQ - Next generation cloud-native converged message queue.
Rocketmq-Rust - 🚀Apache RocketMQ build in Rust🦀. Faster, safer, and with lower memory usage.

MLOps

api7/aisix - Open-source AI gateway for LLMs and AI agents: one OpenAI-compatible API plus a native Anthropic Messages API in front of OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and other OpenAI-compatible endpoints, with MCP and A2A gateways, semantic routing, guardrails, and semantic caching.
cocoindex - ETL framework to build fresh context for AI agents, with incremental processing
TensorZero - data & learning flywheel for LLMs that unifies inference, observability, optimization, and experimentation
Uteke - Offline-first semantic memory engine for AI agents. Single binary, zero dependencies, MCP-native.

Observability

avito-tech/bioyino - A high-performance scalable StatsD compatible server.
esrlabs/chipmunk - Native egui desktop application for analyzing massive log files and streams. Features a WebAssembly plugin system and automotive formats support.
madesroches/micromegas [micromegas] - Observability backend for logs, metrics and traces, with low-overhead Rust instrumentation. Stores telemetry as Parquet on object storage and queries it with SQL.
MegaAntiCheat/client-backend - The client app for MAC.
openobserve - 10x easier, 140x lower storage cost, high performance, petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative.
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.
parseablehq/parseable - An AI-native unified observability platform for collecting and analyzing logs, metrics, traces and events.
Quickwit-oss/quickwit - Cloud-native and highly cost-efficient search engine for log management.
rustrak/rustrak - Ultra-lightweight error tracking server compatible with Sentry SDKs.
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

0x59616e/SteinsOS - An OS for armv8-a architecture.
Andy-Python-Programmer/aero - A modern, unix-like operating system following the monolithic kernel design.
asterinas/asterinas - A secure, fast, and general-purpose OS kernel that provides Linux-compatible ABI.
DragonOS-Community/DragonOS - An operating system with a self-developed kernel from scratch and Linux compatibility.
hexagonal-sun/moss-kernel - A Unix-like, Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust and Aarch64 assembly.
koibtw/highlightos - x86_64 OS kernel written in Rust & Assembly.
NON-OS/nonos-micro-kernel - A capability-based, RAM-resident microkernel where every program is a signed capsule that must prove itself before the kernel will run it, and drivers run in userspace.
redox-os/redox - A Unix-like general-purpose microkernel-based operating system with a focus on security, stability, performance, correctness, simplicity and pragmatism that aims to be a complete alternative for Linux and BSD.
thepowersgang/rust_os - An OS kernel written in rust. Non POSIX
theseus-os/Theseus - A safe-language, single address space and single privilege level OS written from scratch -
tock/tock - A secure embedded operating system for Cortex-M based microcontrollers
vinc/moros - A text-based hobby operating system targeting computers with a x86-64 architecture and a BIOS.

Package Managers

helsing-ai/buffrs [buffrs] - A modern package manager for protocol buffers and gRPC architectures.
pkgx - Run anything. A composable package manager that makes the entire open source ecosystem available to your scripts.
rebos - A declarative way to automate package management on any linux distro

Payments

hyperswitch - An open source payments orchestrator that lets you connect with multiple payment processors and route payment traffic effortlessly, all with a single API integration

Productivity

0xdea/jiggy [jiggy] - Minimalistic cross-platform mouse jiggler written in Rust
aannoo/hcom - Let AI agents message, watch, and spawn each other across terminals (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, OpenCode). Rust PTY wrapper with screen tracking, TUI (ratatui), and daemon client binary; Python hooks and API
agent-of-empires - A TUI/CLI for managing multiple AI coding agent sessions with tmux, git worktrees, and Docker sandboxing
aichat - All-in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more.
akitaonrails/ai-memory - Long-term memory for AI coding agents: a git-backed markdown wiki with automatic lifecycle capture, cross-agent handoffs, and a self-hosted MCP server.
akitaonrails/ai-usagebar [ai-usagebar] - Waybar widget, native Omarchy Quattro panel, and tabbed TUI for monitoring AI plan usage across Claude, Codex/ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Z.AI (GLM), OpenRouter, and more.
AlexsJones/llmfit [llmfit] - Terminal tool that right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU. Interactive TUI with hardware detection, multi-dimensional scoring (quality/speed/fit/context), community leaderboard, and support for Ollama, llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, and more.
AlexsJones/llmserve [llmserve] - Interactive TUI to serve local LLM models with auto-detected backends (llama-server, KoboldCpp, LocalAI, MLX, Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio). Features source tree navigation, per-backend presets, live logs, and vision model support.
alphaXiv/OpenResearch - A local-first workspace for running parallel research agents with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or Cursor, with reproducible experiment tracking.
antiburn/antiburn - Local desktop app (Tauri) that checks AI coding agent sessions for common causes of token burn: sessions too deep, overpowered subagents, broken caching, and unused MCP servers, skills, and tools. Supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Pi, and more
ast-grep - A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting.
Bartib [Bartib] - A simple timetracker for the command line
Beetroot - Clipboard manager for Windows with AI transforms, OCR, and fuzzy search.
bitrouter/bitrouter [bitrouter] - Agent-native LLM router that optimizes your agent with every run with zero harness changes, making every model call reliable, traceable, secure, and cost-effective. Routes across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, Bedrock, GitHub Copilot, and more through a single local endpoint, with an MCP gateway, ACP integration, guardrails, observability, and multi-account failover.
CookCLI - Command-line recipe manager with web server, shopping lists, and meal planning capabilities.
espanso - A cross-platform Text Expander.
eureka - A CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
farion1231/cc-switch - An all-in-one GUI assistant and profile manager for Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.
fkiene/llmtrim [llmtrim] - Local proxy that compresses LLM API requests to cut input and output tokens without changing the answers. Sits between AI tools and the provider via HTTPS_PROXY; works with Claude Code, Codex, and more.
flusterIO/fluster - An all-in-one note taking application built for STEM students and professionals.
fulsomenko/kanban [kanban-tui] - Terminal-based project management tool inspired by lazygit
Furtherance - Time tracking app built with GTK4
futuregene/future-os - One AI agent everywhere: a single Rust gRPC backend drives a terminal UI, desktop app, mobile apps, CLI, and IM bots with the same sessions, memory, and skills. Trust-first approval-gated tools, 3,800+ models, and a loop control plane for 24h+ runs.
graves/awful_aj [awful_aj] - A CLI for working with OpenAI-compatible APIs, YAML templates for prompt engineering and a built in Vector Database for persistent memories.
graykode/abtop [abtop] - Terminal TUI for monitoring AI coding agent sessions (Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode). Track token usage, context window %, rate limits, child processes, and orphan ports. Features tmux integration, 12 themes including colorblind-friendly options, and cross-platform support.
Hmbown/DeepSeek-TUI [deepseek-tui-cli] - Terminal coding agent for DeepSeek V4 with streaming reasoning blocks, local workspace editing, auto model selection, MCP support, and ratatui-based TUI.
iBz-04/gloamy [gloamy] - Rust-first autonomous agent runtime for CLI, channels, gateway, and hardware workflows.
illacloud/illa - Low-code internal tool builder.
iwe-org/iwe [iwe] - A markdown-based knowledge management tool with LSP server and CLI
jchultarsky/mirador [mirador] - A calm personal dashboard for the terminal: clocks, calendar and agenda, weather, tasks, notes, markets and live system metrics in a configurable grid
kruseio/hygg [hygg] - 📚 Simplifying the way you read. Minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader.
LLDAP - Simplified LDAP interface for authentication.
lockbook/lockbook [lb-rs] - Collaborative end-to-end encrypted notes, documents, and drawings, with native cross-platform clients built on a shared Rust core and a self-hostable server.
mag123c/toktrack - Fast TUI/CLI that tracks token usage and cost across AI coding CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more), with a persistent cache that survives CLI data deletion.
max-sixty/worktrunk [worktrunk] - CLI for git worktree management designed for running AI agents in parallel, with hooks, LLM commit messages, and merge workflows
morganlinton/Albatross [albatross-cli] - Terminal-first AI coding agent with transparent multi-model routing across local (Ollama, LM Studio, MLX, llama.cpp) and cloud backends, per-turn cost display, real undo, and auditable routing receipts.
muvon/octomind - Open-source AI agent runtime CLI with 48+ specialist agents, MCP host with dynamic server registration, multi-provider support (13+ LLMs), and adaptive context compression for 4+ hour sessions.
ogulcancelik/herdr - Terminal multiplexer designed for AI coding agents. Run multiple agents in one terminal with real terminal views, agent state detection (blocked/working/done), workspaces, tabs, and persistent sessions. Single Rust binary with detach/reattach support.
pier-cli/pier - A central repository to manage (add, search metadata, etc.) all your one-liners, scripts, tools, and CLIs
raine/workmux [workmux] - git worktrees + tmux windows for zero-friction parallel dev
rtk-ai/rtk - High-performance CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% for AI coding assistants. Filters and compresses command outputs for Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex, and more.
screenpipe - 24/7 local AI screen & mic recording. Build AI apps that have the full context. Works with Ollama.
ShadoySV/work-break [work-break] - Work and rest time balancer taking into account your current and today strain
socai-io/socai - A social research agent that reuses signed-in Chrome to search and read posts, comments, profiles, and supported media across Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Xiaohongshu, and Douyin.
tambourine-voice - personal AI voice interface for any app - customizable dictation that lets you choose your own models and prompts, built using Rust.
tassiovirginio/try-rs [try-rs] - Workspace manager CLI with a TUI to organize and navigate temporary experiments.
thClaws/thClaws - Native Rust AI agent workspace with multi-provider LLM support, skills system, MCP servers, knowledge bases, and agent orchestration. Features desktop GUI, CLI REPL, and non-interactive modes.
tinyhumansai/opencompany - Open-source runtime that assembles AI agents into a working company: shared work board, handoffs between agents, human approvals, scheduled and DAG workflows. Runs on any model you bring, self-hosted with Docker.
tinyhumansai/openhuman - Open-source agentic assistant with desktop UI, 118+ OAuth integrations, local-first memory tree, Obsidian-compatible wiki, native voice, and TokenJuice compression. Built with Tauri and Rust for privacy-focused personal AI.
tover0314-w/opentypeless - Cross-platform AI voice typing app built with Tauri and Rust.
Tuxedo - A fast, keyboard-driven terminal UI for todo.txt.
tw93/Pake - Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command using Rust and Tauri. Lightweight, fast, and supports macOS, Windows, and Linux.
VisiGrid/VisiGrid - Native spreadsheet built like a code editor with GPUI, WASM, and a headless CLI engine.
xingkongliang/skills-manager - Lightweight desktop app to manage, sync, and organize AI agent skills across 15+ coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, etc.) with Tauri 2, Rust backend, and Git backup support.
Xoshbin/asyar - The power of Raycast. The speed of Alfred. Privacy by design.
yashs662/rust_kanban [rust-kanban] - A Kanban App for the terminal
yicheng47/runner - Native GPUI desktop app for macOS and Windows where CLI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, and pi work one task together as a crew, each keeping its own TUI in a real terminal.
Zackriya-Solutions/meetily - Privacy-first AI meeting assistant that captures, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on your local machine. Features real-time transcription with Whisper/Parakeet models, AI-powered summaries, and support for multiple AI providers (Ollama, Claude, Groq, OpenAI)

Routing protocols

Holo - Holo is a suite of routing protocols designed to support high-scale and automation-driven networks
RustyBGP - BGP

Security tools

0xdea/augur [augur] - Reverse engineering assistant that extracts strings and related pseudo-code from a binary file
0xdea/haruspex [haruspex] - Vulnerability research assistant that extracts pseudo-code from the IDA Hex-Rays decompiler
0xdea/oneiromancer [oneiromancer] - Reverse engineering assistant that uses a locally running LLM to aid with source code analysis
0xdea/rhabdomancer [rhabdomancer] - Vulnerability research assistant that locates all calls to potentially insecure API functions in a binary file
AdGuardian-Term [adguardian] - Terminal-based, real-time traffic monitoring and statistics for your AdGuard Home instance
AFLplusplus/LibAFL - Advanced Fuzzing Library - Slot your Fuzzer together in Rust! Scales across cores and machines. For Windows, Android, MacOS, Linux, no_std, etc.
arp-scan-rs - A minimalistic ARP scan tool for fast local network scans
biandratti/huginn-net - Multi-protocol passive network fingerprinting combining p0f TCP and JA4 TLS analysis for OS and application detection
bountyyfi/lonkero - Enterprise-grade web vulnerability scanner with 60+ attack modules for penetration testing and security assessments
cargo-audit - Audit Cargo.lock for crates with security vulnerabilities
cargo-auditable - Make production Rust binaries auditable
cargo-crev - A cryptographically verifiable code review system for the cargo package manager.
cargo-deny - Cargo plugin to help you manage large dependency graphs
Cherrybomb - Stop half-done API specifications with a CLI tool that helps you avoid undefined user behaviour by validating your API specifications.
cotp - Trustworthy, encrypted, command-line TOTP/HOTP authenticator app with import functionality.
domcyrus/rustnet - Cross-platform network monitoring TUI with process identification via eBPF/PKTAP and deep packet inspection
EFForg/rayhunter - IMSI catcher detection tool designed to run on mobile hotspot hardware, helping users identify potential cellular surveillance (Stingray/cell-site simulators)
entropic-security/xgadget [xgadget] - Fast, parallel, cross-variant ROP/JOP gadget search
epi052/feroxbuster - A simple, fast, recursive content discovery tool.
getprovenant/provenant [provenant-cli] - Fast license, copyright, package, and SBOM scanner that emits CycloneDX and SPDX with a complete, closed dependency inventory; static and offline.
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; rewrite of shijack
kpcyrd/sn0int - A semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager
kpcyrd/sniffglue - A secure multithreaded packet sniffer
LeChatP/RootAsRole - A better alternative to sudo(-rs)/su • ⚡ Blazing fast • 🛡️ Memory-safe • 🔐 Security-oriented
microsoft/mxc - Sandboxed code execution system for running untrusted code (model output, plugins, tools) on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Features multiple containment backends (ProcessContainer, Windows Sandbox, LXC, Bubblewrap, Seatbelt, MicroVM, Hyperlight, IsolationSession, WSLC) with JSON-based policy-driven sandboxing and TypeScript SDK.
mongodb/kingfisher - A blazingly fast tool for secret detection and live validation across files, Git repos, S3, Jira, and Confluence
mullvad/mullvadvpn-app - Cross-platform VPN client application for the Mullvad VPN service with WireGuard support, quantum-resistant tunnels, and privacy-focused features.
observer_ward - Web application and service fingerprint identification tool
Raspirus - User- and resources-friendly rules-based malware scanner
reaction - Scan logs and take action: an alternative to fail2ban
ripasso - A password manager, filesystem compatible with pass
rustscan - Make Nmap faster with this port scanning tool
santhreal/keyhog [keyhog] - Detects leaked credentials and API keys across source trees, git history, archives, and remote sources, with live verification of found secrets
secluso - A private Raspberry Pi home security camera that uses end-to-end encryption
sherlock [sherlock] - Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
ssh-vault - A simple tool to manage secrets using ssh keys for encryption and decryption.
timescale/rsigma [rsigma] - A complete detection engineering toolkit for the Sigma detection standard, with a parser, evaluation engine, rule conversion, streaming runtime, linter, CLI, MCP, and LSP

Social networks

Discord
- concord - A feature-rich TUI client for Discord.
- Dorion - Tiny alternative Discord client with a smaller footprint, snappier startup, themes, plugins and more!
Mastodon
- Rustodon - A Mastodon-compatible, ActivityPub-speaking server.
Telegram
- tgt - A crossplatform TUI for Telegram
WhatsApp
- imtaqin/waxum - Self-hosted WhatsApp gateway exposing a REST API, webhooks, multi-session support and voice calls from a single static binary.

System tools

adileo/squirreldisk - Disk usage analyzer GUI (egui) for macOS, Windows and Linux with sunburst and treemap views, which can also scan SSH servers and cloud storage via rclone
ajeetdsouza/zoxide - A fast alternative to cd that learns your habits
anylinuxfs - CLI tool for mounting any linux-supported filesystem on a Mac - using NFS with a microVM
anylinuxfs-gui - GUI application for anylinuxfs
ataraxy-labs/sem - Entity-level semantic version control CLI. Diff, blame, graph, and impact analysis at the function/class level across 32 languages via tree-sitter.
ataraxy-labs/weave - Entity-level merge driver for Git. Resolves merge conflicts by understanding code structure via tree-sitter. Drops into git as a custom merge driver via .gitattributes.
atuin [atuin] - Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. Additionally, it provides optional and fully encrypted synchronisation of your history between machines, via an Atuin server.
bandwhich - Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
bolivian-peru/os-moda - NixOS distribution where an AI agent has root through 91 typed MCP tools. 9 Rust daemons (system bridge, atomic SafeSwitch deploys with auto-rollback, hash-chained audit ledger, AES-256-GCM crypto wallets, Noise_XX + ML-KEM-768 P2P mesh, local STT/TTS, MCP server lifecycle, system learning, domain-allowlisted egress proxy) communicate over Unix sockets.
bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
brocode/fblog - Small command-line JSON Log viewer
brush-shell - bash/POSIX-compatible shell
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!
ChurchTao/clipboard-rs [clipboard-rs] - Cross-platform library written in Rust for getting and setting and monitoring changes the system-level clipboard content.
Cocoa-Way [homebrew] - Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux GUI apps without VM overhead. Built with Smithay.
crabz - Multi-threaded compression and decompression CLI tool
cristianoliveira/funzzy - A configurable filesystem watcher inspired by entr
dalance/procs - A modern replacement for 'ps'
ddh - Fast duplicate file finder
deshaw/procfd [procfd] - Linux lsof replacement to list open file descriptors for processes
diskonaut - Terminal visual disk space navigator
dust - A more intuitive version of du
erickochen/purple [purple-ssh] - Ratatui-powered SSH client with cloud sync, container management, file transfer, tunnels, snippets and password management
eza-community/eza - A replacement for 'ls'
fish-shell/fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell
fork - Library for creating a new process detached from the controlling terminal (daemon)
fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries
git-ai-project/git-ai - A git extension that tracks AI-generated code in your repositories, linking lines to the agent, model, and transcripts.
gitbutlerapp/gitbutler - A modern Git-based version control interface with both a GUI and CLI built from the ground up for AI-powered workflows.
gitui - Blazing fast terminal client for git.
GQL - A SQL like query language to run on .git files.
harry0703/MangoDisk - Cross-platform disk cleanup and space analysis app with deep cleanup, treemap visualization, duplicate detection, app uninstallation, and developer artifact cleanup.
httm - Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even actual Time Machine backups!)
hyperb1iss/unifly [unifly] - CLI and TUI for managing Ubiquiti UniFi network controllers with dual-API coverage and a 10-screen Ratatui dashboard
j0ru/kickoff - Fast and snappy wayland program launcher
jacek-kurlit/pik [pik] - A TUI command line tool that helps to find and kill processes
Kondo - CLI & GUI tool for deleting software project artifacts and reclaiming disk space
LACT - Linux AMDGPU Controller
lodosgroup/lpm - An experimental system package manager
lotabout/rargs [rargs] - xargs + awk with pattern matching support
lsd - An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
Luminarys/synapse - Flexible and fast BitTorrent daemon.
m4b/bingrep - Greps through binaries from various OSs and architectures, and colors them.
macpow - Real-time power consumption monitor TUI for Apple Silicon Macs (M1–M5+). Reads IOReport, SMC, IORegistry — no sudo required.
Mapika/portview [portview] - See what's on your ports: the process behind each one, plus diagnostics for conflicts, wildcard exposure and connection leaks. Doubles as an MCP server.
matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui [systemd-manager-tui] - A program for managing systemd services through a TUI (Terminal User Interfaces).
matthart1983/diskwatch - Single-host disk diagnostics TUI: eight tabs across devices, volumes, filesystems, IO, SMART, hot files, and insights.
matthart1983/netwatch [netwatch-tui] - Real-time network diagnostics TUI: deep packet inspection across 13 protocols (TLS, QUIC, HTTP, DNS, SSH, MQTT, SNMP, …), per-process attribution via eBPF / PKTAP, TCP retransmit analytics, JA4 fingerprinting, optional Landlock sandbox, and Flight Recorder incident bundles.
matthart1983/syswatch [syswatch] - Single-host system diagnostics TUI: twelve tabs across CPU, memory, disks, processes, GPU, power, services, and network, plus a Timeline scrubber and an Insights anomaly engine.
mdgaziur/findex - Findex is a highly customizable application finder using GTK3
mitnk/cicada - A bash-like Unix shell
mmstick/concurr - Alternative to GNU Parallel w/ a client-server architecture
mmstick/fontfinder - GTK3 application for previewing and installing Google's fonts
mmstick/tv-renamer - A tv series renaming application with an optional GTK3 frontend.
mxseev/logram - Push log files' updates to Telegram
netscanner - TUI Network Scanner
nickgerace/gfold [gfold] - CLI tool to help keep track of multiple Git repositories
nivekuil/rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm
nushell/nushell - A new type of shell
nwiizo/tfmcp - Terraform MCP Tool - CLI for AI assistants to manage Terraform environments via Model Context Protocol.
nwiizo/tfocus - Interactive tool for selecting and executing Terraform plan/apply operations
orhun/kmon - Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
orhun/systeroid - A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface
ouch - Painless compression and decompression on the command-line
pkolaczk/fclones - Efficient duplicate file finder and remover
pop-os/popsicle - GTK3 & CLI utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel
pop-os/system76-power - Linux power management daemon (DBus-interface) with CLI tool.
pueue - Manage your long running shell commands.
qarmin/czkawka - 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.
sharkdp/hexyl [hexyl] - A command-line hex viewer with colored output for different byte categories
sitkevij/hex - A colorized hexdump terminal utility.
Skardyy/mcat [mcat] - View images, video, Markdown, and other documents in the terminal.
skim - A fuzzy finder
sorairolake/hf [hf] - Cross-platform hidden file library and utility
sorairolake/ngrv [ngrv] - A terminal-based pipe viewer similar to pv(1)
sorairolake/rzopfli [rzopfli] - A lossless data compression tool using Zopfli
supercilex/fuc - Fast cp and rm commands
theBGuy/GitDesktop - Keyboard-first Git desktop client with PR, issue, discussion, CI and notification management across GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket, plus Jira linking and AI agent integration; Tauri + Rust backend
timhartmann7/omnyssh - A fast, keyboard-driven TUI for managing SSH connections
topheman/webassembly-component-model-experiments - WebAssembly Component Model based REPL with sandboxed multi-language plugin system
trippy - A network diagnostic tool
tw93/Kaku - A fast, out-of-the-box terminal emulator built for AI coding, with zero-config defaults, AI assistant integration, and WezTerm-compatible Lua configuration. macOS-only.
uutils/coreutils - A cross-platform rewrite of the GNU coreutils
vyrti/cleaner - Fastest disk space usage analyzer and cleaner for Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD.
watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications
XAMPPRocky/tokei - counts the lines of code
ynqa/jnv - Interactive JSON filter using jq
ynqa/logu - Extract patterns from (streaming) unstructured log messages
ynqa/sig - Interactive grep (for streaming)

Task scheduling

tasklet [tasklet] - A task scheduling library written in Rust

Text editors

amp - Inspired by Vi/Vim.
Ferrite - A cross-platform markdown editor built with egui, featuring live preview, syntax highlighting, and mermaid diagrams.
Fresh - An easy-to-use, powerful and fast terminal text editor & IDE, with TypeScript plugin support.
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.
Inkwell - A portable, offline-first Markdown editor built with Tauri v2. Single executable, zero telemetry.
jamii/focus - A minimalist text editor with built-in jj (Jujutsu) version-control integration.
ki-editor/ki-editor - A multi-cursor combinatoric modal editor
Lapce - A modern editor with a backend. Taking inspiration from the discontinued xi-editor.
manyougz/velotype - A block-based native Markdown editor with WYSIWYG rendering and source editing modes, built on GPUI without a WebView shell.
mathall/rim - Vim-like text editor.
ox - An independent Rust text editor that runs in your terminal!
SoloMD - A lightweight, cross-platform Markdown editor with live preview, built with Tauri 2.
vamolessa/pepper [pepper] - An opinionated modal editor to simplify code editing from the terminal
zed - A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Text processing

artob/readmer [readmer] - Readmer composes README.md files from Liquid or Jinja2 templates.
ashvardanian/stringzilla - SIMD-accelerated string search, sort, edit distances, alignments, and generators for x86 AVX2 & AVX-512, and Arm NEON
bensadeh/tailspin [tailspin] - A log file highlighter that highlights numbers, dates, IP addresses, UUIDs, and log levels.
brevity1swos/rgx [rgx-cli] - Terminal regex debugger with real-time matching, step-through debugger, 3 engines, code generation, and live stream filtering.
cchexcode/complate - An in-terminal text templating tool designed for standardizing messages (like for GIT commits).
dathere/qsv [qsv] - A high performance CSV data-wrangling toolkit. Forked from xsv, with 34+ additional commands & more.
dominikwilkowski/cfonts [cfonts] - Sexy ANSI fonts for the console
Goldziher/uncomment [uncomment] - Blazingly fast CLI to remove comments from code using tree-sitter grammars.
grex - A command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases
harehare/mq - A command-line tool and library for processing Markdown using a jq-like syntax
Lisprez/so_stupid_search - A simple and fast string search tool for human beings
loki_text [loki_text] - String manipulation library with pattern searching, text transformation, and multiple string search algorithms (KMP, Boyer-Moore, Aho-Corasick, etc.)
Melody - A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more easily readable and maintainable
micahkepe/jsongrep [jsongrep] - A fast search tool for JSON, YAML, TOML, and other serialization formats with an intuitive path query syntax.
phiresky/ripgrep-all - ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.
ripgrep - combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep
ruplacer - Find and replace text in source files
scooter - Interactive find and replace in the terminal.
sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI
sstadick/hck - A faster and more featureful drop in replacement for cut
SylphxAI/anymd - Convert any file (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, EPUB, HTML/URLs, images, audio/video) to clean Markdown for AI agents; a CLI and MCP server
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
aravpanwar/decayfmt [decayfmt] - A file format whose files permanently corrupt a little on every open, with no recovery from the file alone.
artob/edky [edky] - A command-line utility to convert Ed25519 public keys between various encoding formats (Base58, Base64, IPFS, iroh, libp2p, OpenSSH, etc).
bloznelis/kbt [kbt] - A simple TUI tool for keyboard testing.
brycx/checkpwn - A Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) command-line utility tool that lets you easily check for compromised accounts and passwords.
cartesiancs/vessel - C2 (Command & Control) software for orchestrating physical devices.
dcapal - DcaPal is a free, no registration, online tool to help you keep your portfolio balanced with dollar cost averaging investments.
Eoin-McMahon/Blindfold [Blindfold] - A simple CLI tool for generating .gitignore files quickly and easily.
Epic Asset Manager - An unofficial client to install Unreal Engine, download and manage purchased assets, projects, plugins and games from the Epic Games Store.
evansmurithi/cloak - A Command Line OTP (One Time Password) Authenticator application.
fcsonline/tmux-thumbs - A lightning fast version of tmux-fingers, copy/pasting tmux like vimium/vimperator.
fosk/emplace [emplace] - Synchronize installed packages on multiple machines
gitlogue - A TUI screensaver that visualizes Git commit history in your terminal
guoxbin/dtool - A useful command-line tool collection to assist development including conversion, codec, hashing, encryption, etc.
IvanWng97/pixtuoid [pixtuoid] - Terminal pixel-art office that visualizes Claude Code sessions as animated coworkers in real time.
ja7ad/hydra - An open-source, high-performance download manager and accelerator that splits every file across parallel connections and mirror sources. Featuring dynamic range stealing and real-time stall recovery for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
lamco-admin/lamco-rdp-server - Wayland-native RDP server built on IronRDP, providing remote desktop access across Wayland Linux desktops (GNOME, KDE, COSMIC, wlroots compositors, and more) without X11.
Linus-Mussmaecher/rucola - Terminal-based markdown note manager.
matugen - Generates color palette from image or color using templates.
Mobslide - Desktop application that turns your smartphone into presentation remote controller.
MoonProxyHQ/moonproxy-desktop - A cross-platform GUI desktop client for FRP (frpc), letting non-technical users expose local services to the public internet in one click.
mprocs - TUI for running multiple processes
mrjackwills/oxker [oxker] - A simple tui to view & control docker containers.
nix-community/nix-init - Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more
nix-community/nix-melt - A ranger-like flake.lock viewer
nix-community/nurl [nurl] - Generate Nix fetcher calls from repository URLs
nomino - Batch rename utility for developers
pastel - Helps working with colors: generate, mix, random color.
race604/clock-tui [clock-tui] - A terminal clock app with local clock, timer and stopwatch.
raftario/licensor - write licenses to stdout
restsend/rustpbx - Software-Defined SIP Proxy including register, presence, b2bua. alternative to Freeswitch/FreePBX.
rleeon/hoard - Game save backup and sync system with auto-detection, versioned snapshots, and self-hosted storage.
rust-parallel - Fast command line app using Tokio to execute commands in parallel. Similar interface to GNU Parallel or xargs.
rustdesk/rustdesk - A remote desktop software, great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk.
rustic-rs/rustic [rustic-rs] - Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups powered by Rust.
ruvnet/RuView - A privacy-preserving human pose estimation system using WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) and machine learning.
sorairolake/qrtool [qrtool] - A utility for encoding and decoding QR code images.
sorairolake/randgen [randgen] - Generate pseudo-random bytes
splashboard [splashboard] - A customizable terminal splash rendered on shell startup and on directory change, with per-directory dashboards
str4d/rage [rage] - Rust implementation of age.
suckit - Recursively visit and download a website's content to your disk.
sundegan/JsonStudio - Local-first desktop JSON workspace built with Rust and Tauri for formatting, editing, diffing, converting, validating, and log extraction.
Tabiew - A lightweight TUI app to view and query CSV files.
Tail Tales - A TUI log viewer with logfmt support.
tareqmy/gitwig [CRATE] - A mouse-drivable git TUI and multi-repo dashboard.
television - A blazing fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI
Thoth - A high-performance, feature-rich desktop application for viewing and exploring JSON and NDJSON files, with WASM-based plugin support.
vamolessa/verco [verco] - A simple Git/Hg tui client focused on keyboard shortcuts
vaultwarden - Alternative implementation of the Bitwarden server API written in Rust
veirt/weathr [weathr] - A terminal weather app with ASCII animation.
Vibe - Transcribe audio or video in every language on every platform.
warpdotdev/Warp - 💲 Warp is a blazingly-fast modern GPU-accelerated terminal built to make you and your team more productive.
Water-Run/treepp - A Rust-based native Windows tree replacement with diff-level input/output compatibility on successful runs, many more features including essential exclusions and .gitignore support, and several-times faster performance.
wrestic - A wrapper around restic.
wthrr - Weather companion for the terminal.
YAKC - Cross-platform keystroke & mouse-click visualizer for screencasts, streaming, and presentations. Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux (X11 & Wayland).
YueMiyuki/Risuko - A full-featured download manager.
zerx-lab/FluxDown - A multi-protocol download manager with a Rust/Tokio engine, supporting HTTP/FTP, BitTorrent, eD2K, HLS and DASH, with IDM-style dynamic segmentation, browser extensions and an aria2-compatible JSON-RPC endpoint.

Video

dertuxmalwieder/yaydl [yaydl] - A simple video downloader
gyroflow/gyroflow - Video stabilization application using gyroscope data
harlanc/xiu - A powerful and secure live server (rtmp/httpflv/hls/relay).
Jorji49/streamtop [streamtop] - Terminal HLS, DASH, and IPTV stream monitor with wire probes, TR 101 290, and SCTE-35 metrics.
Michael-A-Kuykendall/muxide [muxide] - Pure-Rust MP4 muxer with no external dependencies that writes standards-compliant MP4 from encoded frames.
tonhowtf/omniget - A desktop app to download videos, courses, music and books from 1,800+ sites, with a built-in player, reader and study library.
vidmerger - Merge video & audio files via CLI
vuiodev/vuio - DLNA media server with support for Linux, macOS, Windows, and Docker
xiph/rav1e - The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.

Virtualization

firecracker-microvm/firecracker - A lightweight virtual machine for container workload Firecracker Microvm
kata-containers/kata-containers - A implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs.
superradcompany/microsandbox - Lightweight microVM sandboxing library for running isolated code execution in milliseconds. Supports Rust, Python, and TypeScript SDKs with OCI-compatible container images.
tailhook/vagga - A containerization tool without daemons
youki-dev/youki - A container runtime

Web

0xMassi/webclaw - Web content extraction for LLMs with TLS fingerprinting, MCP server, and no browser needed
agrinman/tunnelto [tunnelto] - Lets you expose your locally running web server via a public URL.
cfal/tobaru - Port forwarder with allowlists, IP and TLS SNI/ALPN rule-based routing, iptables support, round-robin forwarding (load balancing), and hot reloading.
hook0/hook0 - An open-source webhooks-as-a-service platform that makes it easy for SaaS developers to send webhooks
importantimport/hatsu - 🩵 Self-hosted and fully-automated ActivityPub bridge for static sites.
IndexFlowing/IndexFlow-core - Self-hosted SEO indexing infrastructure for managing sitemaps, URL submissions, and search engine indexing.
janreges/siteone-crawler [siteone-crawler] - All-in-one website crawler, auditor, offline archiver, and AI-ready markdown exporter with CI/CD quality gating
konippi/servo-fetch - A self-contained browser engine that fetches, renders, and extracts web content as Markdown, JSON, or screenshots — no Chromium, no API key. CLI, Python, MCP server.
LemmyNet/lemmy - A link aggregator / reddit clone for the fediverse
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
Redlib - An alternative private front-end to Reddit, with its origins in Libreddit
shouya/rss-funnel - A modular RSS processing pipeline system.
SinTan1729/Chhoto URL - A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features.
Stoatchat - User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.
zhom/donutbrowser - Open source anti-detect browser with unlimited isolated profiles, Chromium/Firefox engines, fingerprint spoofing, proxy/VPN support, local API & MCP server, and E2E encrypted cloud sync.

Web Servers

cloudflare/pingora - A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services.
emanuele-em/proxelar - A MITM Proxy 🦀! Toolkit for HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and WebSockets with SSL/TLS Capabilities
g3proxy - Forward proxy server, support Proxy Chaining, Protocol Inspection, MITM Interception, ICAP Adaptation, Transparent Proxy
hyperlane-dev/hyperlane [hyperlane] - A lightweight, high-performance, cross-platform Rust HTTP server library built on Tokio; built-in support for middleware, WebSocket, SSE, and raw TCP.
Mini RPS - Mini reverse proxy server, HTTPS, CORS, static file hosting and template engine (minijinja) crates.io
mu-arch/skyfolder - 🪂 Beautiful HTTP/Bittorrent server without the hassle. Secure - GUI - Pretty - Fast
mufeedvh/binserve - A blazingly fast static web server with routing, templating, and security in a single binary you can set up with zero code
orhun/rustypaste - A minimal file upload/pastebin service
plabayo/rama - A modular service framework to move and transform your network packets, used to build web clients, servers and — above all — proxies
ronanyeah/rust-hasura - A demonstration of how a 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
vetis-server/vetis - A blazingly fast, minimalist HTTP server built for modern Rust applications. Provides virtual Hosts, SNI, static content, reverse proxy, HTTP 1/2/3 and Tokio or Smol as async runtimes!
vproxy/0x676e67 - An fast asynchronous Rust HTTP/Socks5 Proxy

Workflow Automation

cowork-forge - AI-native multi-agent platform that orchestrates specialized agents through a 7-stage pipeline to transform ideas into production-ready software.
dali-benothmen/woml - WOML (Workflow Orchestration Markup Language) is a markup language for workflow automation, with a Rust execution core. Readable as HTML, versionable as code, powerful as JavaScript — no visual-builder spaghetti, no ceiling on what a step can do.
SouravRoy-ETL/duckle - Visual-first, open-source data studio (ETL/ELT) that runs entirely on DuckDB. Drag sources, transforms and sinks onto a canvas and it compiles to plain DuckDB SQL; 300+ connectors and a built-in MCP server.

Development tools

7df-lab/devo - A lightweight, model-neutral coding agent that runs as a single binary. Fast, token-efficient, and highly customizable.
aaif-goose/goose - An open-source, local AI agent that automates engineering tasks.
agavra/tuicr [tuicr] - Code review TUI with vim keybindings. Continuous diff viewer, PR-style comments, and export to GitHub/GitLab/clipboard. Supports git, jj, and mercurial.
armgabrielyan/deadbranch [deadbranch] - Clean up stale git branches safely
astral-sh/uv [uv] - An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.
ATAC - A feature-full TUI API client made in Rust. ATAC is free, open-source, offline and account-less.
bacon - background rust code checker, similar to cargo-watch
biome - A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP
cachix/devenv - Fast, declarative, reproducible, and composable developer environments using Nix
claudectl [claudectl] - Auto-pilot for Claude Code with a local LLM brain (ollama/llama.cpp/vLLM) that learns to auto-approve/deny tool calls. Multi-session orchestration, health monitoring, spend control.
clippy - Rust lints
clog-tool/clog-cli - generates a changelog from git metadata (conventional changelog)
cloudflare/foundations - Foundations is a modular Rust library, designed to help scale programs for distributed, production-grade systems.
cordx56/rustowl [rustowl] - Visualize Ownership and Lifetimes in Rust
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
enroute-sh/enroute - Programmable git infrastructure on object storage
envio - A Modern And Secure CLI Tool For Managing Environment Variables
Feel-ix-343/markdown-oxide - A PKM Markdown Language Server supporting Obsidian-style wikilinks, backlinks, and daily notes for Neovim, VSCode, Zed, Helix, and Kakoune
FerrLabs/FerrFlow [ferrflow] - Semantic versioning, changelog and tagged releases driven by Conventional Commits, with monorepo support and 16 version-file formats
firelock-ai/kin - A graph-native code repository for people and AI agents. Kin helps you and your AI agents understand what a code change might affect before you make it.
Flox - Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one.
forgecode - A terminal-based AI pair programmer for code generation and editing.
frolic - An API layer to build customer facing dashboards 10x faster
fw - workspace productivity booster
fzf-make [fzf-make] - A command line tool that executes make target using fuzzy finder with preview window.
geiger - A program that list statistics related to usage of unsafe code in a 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
git-time-machine - Visual git reflog TUI for undoing git mistakes
GitoxideLabs/gitoxide [gix] - Pure-Rust Git implementation with high-performance plumbing crates and CLI tools for clone, fetch, status, diff, commit, config, refs, and more.
hot-lib-reloader - Hot reload Rust code
intelli-shell - Bookmark commands with placeholders and search or autocomplete at any time
j178/prek - A faster, dependency-free, and drop-in alternative to pre-commit, written in Rust.
jj-vcs/jj - A Git-compatible version control system with a clean CLI, first-class conflict handling, and automatic rebasing
just - A handy command runner for project-specific tasks
mask - A CLI task runner defined by a simple markdown file
mise [mise] - Polyglot tool version manager and task runner; drop-in replacement for asdf with faster performance.
Module Linker - Extension that adds <a> links to references in mod, use and extern crate statements at GitHub.
Muvon/octocode [octocode] - Semantic code indexer with GraphRAG knowledge graph and MCP server. Tree-sitter AST parsing, ast-grep structural search, LanceDB vector storage, code signatures view. CLI + MCP server modes for AI assistants like Claude/Cursor/Windsurf.
persiyanov/herdr-reviewr - Terminal pane for reviewing a coding agent's diff and sending line comments back to Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Pi.
prefix-dev/pixi [pixi] - Fast package management and workflow tool for multi-language projects, built on top of the conda ecosystem.
ptags - A parallel universal-ctags wrapper for git repository
Racer - code completion for Rust
reflex-search/reflex [reflex-search] - Local-first, full-text code search engine for AI coding agents. Trigram-indexed, sub-100ms queries, MCP server mode, 18 languages via tree-sitter.
Rust Search Extension - A handy browser extension to search crates and docs in address bar (omnibox).
Rustup - the Rust toolchain installer
scriptisto - A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write one file scripts in compiled languages.
sstraus/tuicommander - Desktop workspace that runs many AI coding agents in parallel, each in its own git worktree, with agent state detection, diffs, PR management and an MCP proxy hub
Terrain - AI-native engineering environment management that makes your codebase agent-ready.
typos [typos-cli] - Source code spell checker
voidzero-dev/vite-plus - A unified web development toolchain combining Vite, Vitest, Oxlint, Rolldown, and more into a single Rust-powered CLI (vp)
VT Code - Terminal coding agent that pairs a modern TUI with deep, semantic code understanding powered by tree-sitter and ast-grep.
Wilfred/difftastic [difftastic] - A structural diff tool that understands syntax, supporting 30+ programming languages
yvgude/lean-ctx [lean-ctx] - Context runtime for AI coding agents: MCP server and shell hook that compresses tool and terminal output to reduce LLM token use; Tree-sitter parsing, session caching.

Build system

better-fullstack - End-to-end fullstack scaffolding tool supporting Rust (Axum, Actix Web, Leptos, Dioxus, SeaORM, SQLx, tonic, async-graphql) alongside TypeScript, Go, and Python — code ready for you or your AI agent.
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 micro-benchmarks
- cargo-bins/cargo-binstall [cargo-binstall] - A fast binary installer for Rust crates, fetching pre-built artifacts instead of compiling from source
- cargo-bitbake - A cargo extension that can generate BitBake recipes utilizing the classes from meta-rust
- cargo-cache - inspect/manage/clean your cargo cache (~/.cargo//${CARGO_HOME}), print sizes etc
- cargo-check - A wrapper around cargo rustc -- -Zno-trans which can be helpful for running a faster compile if you only need correctness checks
- cargo-commander - A subcommand for cargo to run CLI commands similar to how the scripts section in package.json works
- cargo-count - lists source code counts and details about cargo projects, including unsafe statistics
- cargo-deb - Generates binary Debian packages
- cargo-depgraph - Creates dependency graphs for cargo projects using cargo metadata and graphviz
- 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-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-machete [cargo-machete] - Simple tool for detecting unused dependencies in Cargo.toml.
- cargo-make - Task runner and build tool.
- cargo-modules - A cargo plugin for showing a tree-like overview of a crate's modules.
- cargo-multi - runs specified cargo command on multiple crates
- cargo-outdated - displays when newer versions of Rust dependencies are available, or out of date
- cargo-rdme [cargo-rdme] - Cargo subcommand to create your README from your crate’s documentation.
- cargo-release - tool for releasing git-managed cargo project, build, tag, publish, doc and push
- cargo-script - lets people quickly and easily run Rust "scripts" which can make use of Cargo's package ecosystem
- cargo-udeps [cargo-udeps] - find unused dependencies
- cargo-update - cargo subcommand for checking and applying updates to installed executables
- cargo-watch - utility for cargo to compile projects when sources change
- dtolnay/cargo-expand - Expand macros in your source code
CMake
- Devolutions/CMakeRust - useful for integrating a Rust library into a CMake project
- SiegeLord/RustCMake - an example project showing usage of CMake with Rust
facebook/buck2 - Buck2 is a large-scale build tool built in Rust
Fleet [fleet-rs] - The blazing fast build tool for Rust.
GitHub actions
- icepuma/rust-action - rust github action
Nix
- nix-community/fenix - Rust toolchains and rust analyzer nightly for nix
pantsbuild/pants - Pants is a fast, scalable, user-friendly build system for codebases of all sizes built in Rust.
rolldown/rolldown - A JavaScript/TypeScript bundler written in Rust intended to serve as the future bundler in Vite.
rui314/mold - A modern, high-speed linker for Linux, macOS, and Windows (ELF, Mach-O, PE)
tracemachina/nativelink - NativeLink is a Backend Remote Execution platform written in rust for client build systems such as Buck2, Bazel, Pants, etc..
vercel/turborepo - High-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos, written in Rust. Features incremental computation, remote caching, and parallel task execution.
wislertt/zerv [zerv] - Dynamic versioning tool that generates a version for every build from any Git state, with SemVer, PEP 440, and CalVer output

Debugging

GDB
- gdbgui - Browser based frontend for gdb to debug C, C++, Rust, and go.
godzie44/BugStalker - Modern debugger for Linux x86-64. Written in Rust for Rust programs.
kxxt/tracexec [tracexec] - Tracer for execve{,at} and pre-exec behavior, launcher for debuggers.
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
- lenra-io/dofigen [dofigen] - Dockerfile generator using a simplified description in YAML or JSON format
- 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.
- moghtech/komodo - A tool to build and deploy software across many servers, with a web UI, API, and no server limits
- rust-cross/rust-musl-cross - Docker images for compiling static Rust binaries using musl-cross
- rust-lang/docker-rust - the official Rust Docker image
- Stavrospanakakis/is_ready - Wait for multiple services to become available
Heroku
- emk/heroku-buildpack-rust - A buildpack for Rust applications on Heroku
release-plz [release-plz] - Release crates from CI, with changelog generation and semver check.

Embedded

Rust Embedded focuses on improving the end-to-end experience of using Rust in resource-constrained environments and non-traditional platforms. See awesome-embedded-rust for a curated, and more extended list of embedded Rust resources.

Arduino
- avr-rust/ruduino - Reusable components for the Arduino Uno.
Cross compiling
- japaric/rust-cross - everything you need to know about cross compiling Rust programs
- japaric/xargo - effortless cross compilation of Rust programs to custom bare-metal targets like ARM Cortex-M
Development Tools
- matheuswhite/scope-rs [scope-monitor] - Cross-platform serial-port & RTT monitor TUI with hex/@tag input macros, search, session recording, and Lua plugins.
- probe-rs/probe-rs [probe-rs-tools] - Embedded debugging toolkit for flashing and debugging ARM and RISC-V microcontrollers.
- Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish/ComChan - A minimal serial monitor with plotter TUI.
Espressif
- esp-rs - home to a number of community projects enabling the use of the Rust programming language on various SoCs and modules produced by Espressif Systems.
Firmware
- oreboot/oreboot - oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust
nRF
- nrf-rs/nrf-hal - A Rust HAL for the nRF family of devices

FFI

See also Foreign Function Interface, The Rust FFI Omnibus (a collection of examples of using code written in Rust from other languages) and FFI examples written in Rust.

C
- gtk-rs/gir - Code generator for creating safe Rust bindings from GObject-based C libraries.
- mozilla/cbindgen - generates C header files from Rust source files. Used in Gecko for WebRender
- Sean1708/rusty-cheddar - generates C header files from Rust source files
- trevyn/librclone [librclone] - Rust bindings for the librclone C library.
C#
- csbindgen - generates C# bindings for Rust source files
C++
- dtolnay/cxx - Safe interop between Rust and C++
- rust-cpp - Embed C++ code directly in Rust.
- rust-lang/rust-bindgen - A Rust bindings generator
Erlang
- rusterlium/rustler - safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions
Java
- bennettanderson/rjni - use Java from Rust
- drrb/java-rust-example - use Rust from Java
- j4rs - use Java from Rust
- jni - use Rust from Java
- jni-sys - Rust definitions corresponding to jni.h
- rucaja - use Java from Rust
Lua
- jcmoyer/rust-lua53 - Lua 5.3 bindings for Rust
- lilyball/rust-lua - Safe Rust bindings to Lua 5.1
- mlua-rs/mlua - High level Lua 5.4/5.3/5.2/5.1 (including LuaJIT) and Roblox Luau bindings to Rust with async/await support
- 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
- zhangyuang/node-ffi-rs - A module written in Rust and N-API provides interface (FFI) features for Node.js
Objective-C
- SSheldon/rust-objc - Objective-C Runtime bindings and wrapper for Rust
PHP
- phper-framework/phper - The framework that allows us to write PHP extensions using pure and safe Rust whenever possible
Prolog
- mthom/scryer-prolog - Scryer Prolog is a free software ISO Prolog system written in Rust
Python
- dgrunwald/rust-cpython - Python bindings
- getsentry/milksnake - extension for python setuptools that allows you to distribute dynamic linked libraries in Python wheels in the most portable way imaginable.
- PyO3/PyO3 - Rust bindings for the Python interpreter
- RustPython - A Python Interpreter written in Rust
Ruby
- d-unsed/ruru - native Ruby extensions written in Rust
- danielpclark/rutie - native Ruby extensions written in Rust and vice versa
Web Assembly
- rhysd/wain - wain: WebAssembly INterpreter from scratch in Safe Rust with zero dependency
- wasm-bindgen - A project for facilitating high-level interactions between wasm modules and JS.
- wasm-pack - 📦 ✨ pack up the wasm and publish it to npm!

Formatters

astral-sh/ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter
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
rvben/rumdl [rumdl] - A fast Markdown linter and formatter written in Rust

IDEs

Profiling

Bencher - A suite of continuous benchmarking tools designed to catch performance regressions in CI
bheisler/criterion.rs - Statistics-driven benchmarking library
Bytehound - A memory profiler for Linux
cong-or/hud - Find what's blocking your Tokio runtime. Zero-instrumentation eBPF profiler.
Divan - Simple yet powerful benchmarking library with allocation profiling
ellisonch/rust-stopwatch - A stopwatch library
FlameGraphs
- llogiq/flame - An intrusive flamegraph profiling tool for rust
g3bench - A benchmark tool that supports HTTP 1.x, HTTP 2, HTTP 3, TLS Handshake, DNS and Cloudflare Keyless
pawurb/hotpath - A simple profiler that shows exactly where your code spends time and allocates
sharkdp/hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool

Services

deepwiki-rs - Transform your codebase into professional architecture documentation.
deps.rs - Detect outdated or insecure dependencies
docs.rs - Automatic documentation generation of crates

Static analysis

[assert, static]

cargo-coupling - A Rust coupling analysis tool using Vlad Khononov's "Balancing Coupling in Software Design" framework
creusot-rs/creusot - A deductive verifier for Rust that proves absence of panics, overflows, and assertion failures by translating code to the Why3 verification platform
dupehound [dupehound] - Duplicate-code detector that fingerprints function bodies (winnowing), so copies survive renaming. Repo slop score, duplication history chart, and a CI gate that points to the original function to reuse. Supports Rust and 11 other languages.
kucherenko/jscpd [jscpd] - Copy/paste detector for source code that finds duplicated blocks across 220+ file formats
MIRAI - an abstract interpreter operating on Rust's mid-level intermediate representation (MIR)
RAPx - A platform that helps Rust programmers develop and use advanced static analysis tools beyond those provided by the rustc compiler.
static_assertions - Compile-time assertions to ensure that invariants are met
verus-lang/verus - Verified Rust for low-level systems code
zizmorcore/zizmor [zizmor] - Static analysis tool for GitHub Actions that finds security issues including template injection, credential leakage, excessive permissions, and impostor commits.

Testing

[test, testing]

Assertions and Matchers
- googletest-json-serde - A collection of JSON matchers for googletest-rust, supporting paths, arrays, and objects.
Code Coverage
- minikin/cargo-crap [cargo-crap] - Finds complex, untested functions by combining cyclomatic complexity with LCOV coverage (the CRAP metric) and gates CI on the score
- supercorp-ai/supercov [supercov] - Code quality and test coverage for coding agents: Jev scores each source file so the agent knows what to fix first
- tarpaulin - A code coverage tool
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
- bitfield/cargo-testdox [cargo-testdox] - Turns your Rust tests into docs
- cargo-dinghy - A cargo extension to simplify running library tests and benches on smartphones and other small processor devices.
- cucumber - An implementation of the Cucumber testing framework for Rust. Fully native, no external test runners or dependencies.
- d-e-s-o/test-log [test-log] - A replacement of the #[test] attribute that initializes logging and/or tracing infrastructure before running tests.
- demonstrate - Declarative Testing Framework
- GoogleTest Rust - Powerful test assertion framework based on the C++ test library GoogleTest
- hovinen/test-that [test-that] - An assertion library for Rust, based on GoogleTest Rust and from its original author.
- mitsuhiko/insta [insta] - A snapshot testing library for Rust.
- nextest-rs/nextest [cargo-nextest] - Next-generation test runner for Rust with parallel test execution, faster test runs, advanced filtering, and rich output.
- padamson/playwright-rust [playwright-rs] - Rust bindings for Microsoft Playwright: cross-browser end-to-end testing (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit) with auto-waiting locators and trace capture.
- palfrey/serial_test [serial_test] - Run tests serially, either as a whole or in named groups
- rlt - A universal load testing framework, with real-time tui support.
- rstest - Fixture-based test framework
- speculate - An RSpec inspired minimal testing framework
Mocking and Test Data
- asomers/mockall [mockall] - A powerful mock object library.
- bcheidemann/fixtures-rs [fixtures] - A proc macro for generating tests from fixtures using glob patterns
- 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 unstable Rust 2018
- mockito - HTTP mocking
- mocktail - HTTP & gRPC server mocking for Rust
- 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
- Ackee-Blockchain/trident - Fuzzing framework for Solana smart contracts with manually-guided testing, flow-based sequences, and property-based validation
- 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

aleph-lang/aleph_ollama [aleph_ollama] - AI-powered source code translation tool using local Ollama API.
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.

Tunnel

ekzhang/bore [bore-cli] - A simple TCP tunnel to expose local ports to a remote server, bypassing NAT firewalls
joaoh82/rustunnel - Self-hosted secure tunnel server. Exposes local HTTP/HTTPS/TCP/UDP services via TLS-encrypted WebSocket with yamux multiplexing; multi-region, Prometheus metrics, MCP server for AI agents.
ngrok/ngrok-rust [ngrok-rust] - ngrok is a developer tool that exposes your local app to the internet securely.
rathole-org/rathole - A secure, high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal with Noise Protocol/TLS encryption and hot-reload config support

Libraries

perf-monitor-rs - A toolkit designed to be a foundation for applications to monitor their performance.

Artificial Intelligence

Genetic algorithms

innoave/genevo - Execute genetic algorithm (GA) simulations in a customizable and extensible way.
m-decoster/RsGenetic - Genetic Algorithm library. In 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

Google Gemini

gemini-client-api - Library to use Google Gemini API. Automatic context management, schema generation, function calling and more.

Machine learning

See [Machine learning]

autumnai/leaf - Open Machine Intelligence framework.. Abandoned project. The most updated fork is juice.
ave-sergeev/tictonix [tictonix] - A library that provides the ability to convert tokens into embeddings, as well as to encode their positions.
blackportal-ai/delta - Δ An Open-Source Machine Learning Framework in Rust.
blackportal-ai/nebula - A Package Manager for Machine Learning Datasets and Models.
burn - A Flexible and Comprehensive Deep Learning Framework.
chelsea0x3b/dfdx - CUDA accelerated machine learning framework that leverages many of Rust's unique features.
EricLBuehler/mistral.rs [mistralrs] - Fast, flexible LLM inference engine supporting multimodal models, quantization (GGUF/GPTQ/ISQ), and OpenAI-compatible API
guillaume-be/rust-bert [rust_bert] - Ready-to-use NLP pipelines and language models
huggingface/candle [candle-core] - a minimalist ML framework with a focus on easiness of use and on performance (including GPU support)
huggingface/tokenizers - Hugging Face's tokenizers for modern NLP pipelines (original implementation) with bindings for Python.
katanemo/plano - The AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic apps.
LaurentMazare/tch-rs - Bindings for PyTorch.
luminal-ai/luminal [luminal] - High-performance general-purpose inference compiler with RISC-style architecture, search-based optimization, and native CUDA/Metal backends. Supports transformers, convnets, and autograd.
maciejkula/rustlearn - Machine learning library.
Michael-A-Kuykendall/shimmy [shimmy] - Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine with an OpenAI-compatible API and native GGUF support.
Michael-A-Kuykendall/shimmytok [shimmytok] - Pure-Rust tokenizer for GGUF models, compatible with llama.cpp tokenization.
Mottl/lightgb3-rs - Bindings for LightGBM
nobodywho-ooo/nobodywho - On-device LLM inference engine that embeds directly in games and apps with no server or API key. Supports streaming generation, embeddings, GBNF grammar-constrained structured output, and Whisper speech-to-text, with bindings for Godot, Flutter, React Native, and Swift.
openinfer-project/openinfer - LLM inference engine in pure Rust + CUDA with no PyTorch and no Python runtime — OpenAI-compatible API, paged KV cache, CUDA Graph, serving models from Qwen3 to the trillion-parameter Kimi-K2.
perpetual-ml/perpetual [perpetual] - A self-generalizing gradient boosting machine which doesn't need hyperparameter optimization.
ramsyana/RustTensor - A learning-focused, high-performance tensor computation library built from scratch in Rust with automatic differentiation and CPU/CUDA backends.
raphaelmansuy/edgequake - A high-performance Graph-RAG framework that transforms documents into intelligent knowledge graphs.
rust-ml/linfa - Machine learning framework.
sipemu/anofox-regression [anofox-regression] - Statistical regression models (OLS, Elastic Net, GLM, Quantile & Isotonic) with R-like inference (p-values, confidence & prediction intervals) and Wasm support.
smartcorelib/smartcore - Machine Learning Library []
tag1consulting/feste - A GPT-2 style transformer language model implemented from scratch in Rust for educational purposes.
tensorflow/rust - Bindings for TensorFlow.

OpenAI

0xplaygrounds/rig - Library for creating agents and modular, scalable LLM-powered applications
64bit/async-openai [async-openai] - Ergonomic Rust bindings for OpenAI API based on OpenAPI spec.
awakenworks/awaken [awaken] - AI agent runtime for Rust — type-safe state, multi-protocol serving, plugin extensibility.
bigduu/Bamboo-agent [bamboo-agent] - Local-first AI agent harness & runtime — persistent memory, built-in tools, skills, MCP, sub-agents, workflows and schedules behind one HTTP + WebSocket API. Embeddable as a crate or runnable as a server.
liquidos-ai/AutoAgents [AutoAgents] - Multi Agent Framework for building AI agents with native edge support.
openai/codex - Codex CLI is a coding agent from OpenAI that runs locally.
openai/harmony [openai-harmony] - Renderer for the harmony response format to be used with gpt-oss.
xberg-io/liter-llm [liter-llm] - Universal LLM API client for 142+ providers with a unified interface, streaming, and native bindings for 11 languages.
zurawiki/tiktoken-rs [tiktoken-rs] - Library for tokenizing text with OpenAI models using tiktoken.

Tooling

BAML - A simple prompting language for building reliable AI workflows and agents. BAML's compiler is written in Rust!
Cortex Memory - A complete solution for agent memory, from extraction and vector search to automated optimization, and insights dashboard out-of-the-box.
juyterman1000/entroly - Information-theoretic Context Engineering Engine that uses reinforcement learning to intelligently prune and select optimal RAG fragments.
memvid/memvid [memvid-core] - A single-file portable memory layer for AI agents with vector search, full-text search, and long-term recall packed into one .mv2 file
pydantic/monty - A minimal, secure Python interpreter for running LLM-generated code in AI agents, with microsecond startup, strict sandboxing, and snapshotting support
tenequm/pond [pond-db] - Lossless storage and search for AI agent sessions across twelve coding-agent clients, built on Lance over a local directory or an S3 bucket, with BM25 and optional vector retrieval exposed over CLI, HTTP, MCP and read-only SQL

Astronomy

[astronomy]

cds-astro/aladin-lite - Web application for visualizing spatial and planetary image surveys in different projections
fitsio - fits interface library wrapping cfitsio
flosse/rust-sun [sun] - A rust port of the JS library suncalc
saurvs/astro-rust - astronomy

Asynchronous

async-std [async-std] - Async version of the Rust standard library
dagrs - A high-performance asynchronous task programming framework, which follows the concept of Flow based Programming.
dpc/mioco - Scalable, coroutine-based, asynchronous IO handling library
igumnoff/gabriel2 [gabriel2] - Gabriel2: An actor-model library based on Tokio
iii-hq/iii [iii-sdk] - Distributed runtime for composing services via Worker-Function-Trigger primitives. Real-time catalog, traceable function calls, and multi-language SDKs (Rust, Node.js, Python). Engine written in Rust (ELv2), SDKs under Apache 2.0.
mio - MIO is a lightweight IO library, with a focus on adding as little overhead as possible over the OS abstractions
nextest-rs/future-queue [future-queue] - Stream adaptors for running futures concurrently with weighted concurrency limits and optional per-group limits.
rust-lang/futures-rs - Zero-cost futures
t3hmrman/async-dropper [async-dropper] - Implementation of AsyncDrop
TeaEntityLab/fpRust - Monad/MonadIO, Handler, Coroutine/doNotation, Functional Programming features for Rust
tokio-rs/tokio - A runtime for writing reliable, asynchronous, and slim applications with the Rust programming language.
tqwewe/kameo - Fault-tolerant Async Actors Built on Tokio
Xudong-Huang/may - Stackful coroutine library
zonyitoo/coio-rs - A coroutine I/O library with a working-stealing scheduler

Audio and Music

[audio]

aschey/stream-download-rs [stream-download] - A library for streaming audio, video, and other media content
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 - Music theory library
pdeljanov/Symphonia - 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.
- RustAudio/rodio - 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
GunduLabs/gaze - Facial authentication for Linux with on-device face recognition, PAM integration, and tools for login, lock screen, sudo, and desktop management.
Keats/jsonwebtoken - JSON Web Token library
oauth2 - Extensible, strongly-typed 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
tenuo-ai/tenuo [tenuo] - Capability-based authorization for AI agents. Signed warrants scope tool calls and arguments, and only narrow when delegated
yup-oauth2 - An oauth2 client implementation providing the Device, Installed and Service Account flows

Automotive

idletea/tokio-socketcan [tokio-socketcan] - Linux SocketCAN support for tokio based on the socketcan crate
marcelbuesing/tokio-socketcan-bcm [tokio-socketcan-bcm] - Linux SocketCAN BCM support for tokio
mbr/socketcan [socketcan] - Linux SocketCAN library
oxibus/can-dbc [can-dbc] - A parser for the DBC format
Sensirion/lin-bus [lin-bus] - LIN bus driver traits and protocol implementation

Bioinformatics

polars-bio - Blazing-Fast Bioinformatic Operations on Python DataFrames
Rust-Bio - bioinformatics libraries.

Caching

06chaynes/http-cache [http-cache] - A caching middleware that follows HTTP caching rules
aisk/rust-memcache - Memcached client library
al8n/stretto - A high performance thread-safe memory-bound cache
hit-box/hitbox - A declarative cache orchestration framework with HTTP middleware and multi-tier backends
jaemk/cached - Simple function caching/memoization
kunobi-ninja/kache [kache] - Content-addressed compiler cache for Rust and C/C++ (website)
moka-rs/moka - A high performance concurrent caching library inspired by the Caffeine library for Java
mozilla/sccache - Shared Compilation Cache, great compilation
salsa-rs/salsa [salsa] - A generic framework for on-demand, incrementalized computation with memoized queries, inspired by rustc's query system.
zkat/cacache-rs - A high-performance, concurrent, content-addressable disk cache, optimized for async APIs

Cloud

AWS [aws]
- aws/aws-lambda-rust-runtime [lambda_runtime] - Runtime for AWS Lambda
- awslabs/aws-sdk-rust - The new AWS SDK
- faiscadev/fakecloud [fakecloud] - Local AWS cloud emulator for development and testing.
- rusoto/rusoto - An AWS SDK for Rust
Azure
- Azure/azure-sdk-for-rust - Official Azure SDK for Rust
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
- aisk/rust-fire [fire] - Turn your function(s) to a command line app with one line of code
- clap-rs [clap] - A simple to use, full featured command-line argument parser
- cliparser - Simple command line parser.
- docopt/docopt.rs [docopt] - Implementation of DocOpt
- google/argh [argh] - An opinionated Derive-based argument parser optimized for code size
- killercup/quicli [quicli] - quickly build cool CLI apps
- ksk001100/seahorse [seahorse] - A minimal CLI framework
- 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 structs and enums.
Human-centered design
- rust-cli/human-panic [human-panic] - panic messages for humans
Line editor
- kkawakam/rustyline [rustyline] - readline implementation
- MovingtoMars/liner [liner] - A library offering readline-like functionality
- murarth/linefeed [linefeed] - Configurable, extensible, interactive line reader
- nushell/reedline [reedline] - A feature-rich line editor powering Nushell. Supports syntax highlighting, tab completions, multiline, history, vi/emacs keybindings, and Unicode.
- srijs/rust-copperline [copperline] - 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
- clitic/kdam [kdam] - A console progress bar library inspired by tqdm & rich.progress
- console-rs/indicatif [indicatif] - indicate progress to users
- etienne-napoleone/spinach [spinach] - Practical spinner.
- FGRibreau/spinners [spinners] - 60+ elegant terminal spinners
- vyfor/rattles [rattles] - A minimal, dependency-free terminal spinner library.
Prompt
- hashmismatch/terminal_cli.rs [terminal_cli] - build an interactive command prompt
- mikaelmello/inquire [inquire] - A library for building interactive prompts on terminals.
- 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
- colored [colored] - Coloring terminal so simple, you already know how to do it!
- console-rs/dialoguer [dialoguer] - Library for command line prompts and similar things.
- LukasKalbertodt/bunt [bunt] - cross-platform terminal colors and styling with macros
- LukasKalbertodt/term-painter [term-painter] - cross-platform styled terminal output
- 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
- AppCUI [appcui] - A full-featured, cross-platform TUI/CUI framework in Rust, with built-in widgets, layout control, animations, Unicode and theming support.
- BearLibTerminal
  - cfyzium/bearlibterminal [bear-lib-terminal] - BearLibTerminal bindings
- ccbrown/iocraft [iocraft] - A crate for beautiful, artisanally crafted CLIs, TUIs, and text-based IO.
- 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] - Library for putting things in a grid
- ratatui-org/ratatui [ratatui] - Library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs)
- redox-os/termion [termion] - bindless library for controlling terminals/TTY
- ruterm - tiny & simple library for working with TTY
- subinium/SuperLightTUI [superlighttui] - Immediate-mode TUI library with 50+ widgets, flexbox layout, and animation system
- Termbox
  - gchp/rustbox [rustbox] - bindings to Termbox
- TimonPost/crossterm [crossterm] - crossplatform terminal library

Compression

7z
- hasenbanck/sevenz-rust2 [sevenz-rust2] - A 7z decompressor/compressor written in pure Rust
Brotli
- dropbox/rust-brotli - Brotli decompressor that optionally avoids the stdlib
- ende76/brotli-rs - implementation of Brotli compression
bzip2
- trifectatechfoundation/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
LZMA
- hasenbanck/lzma-rust2 [lzma-rust2] - LZMA / LZMA2 / LZIP / XZ compression ported from tukaani xz for java
miniz
- rust-lang/flate2-rs - miniz bindings
paxit [paxit] - Flexible library for compressing and decompressing files using various algorithms (zip, tar, gzip, xz, zst, etc.) with modular design for easy extension
tar
- alexcrichton/tar-rs - tar archive reading/writing
zip
- zip-rs/zip2 [zip] - read and write ZIP archives
zstd
- gyscos/zstd-rs - rust binding for the zstd compression library

Computation

alphaville/optimization-engine [optimization-engine] - Optimization Engine (OpEn) is a solver for constrained nonconvex optimization problems
argmin-rs/argmin [argmin] - Optimization library
BLAS [blas]
- mikkyang/rust-blas - BLAS bindings
calebwin/emu - A language for GPGPU numerical computing
dimforge/nalgebra - low-dimensional linear algebra library
faer-rs [faer] - Linear algebra foundation for Rust
fastnum fastnum - Fast exact precision decimal numbers implemented in pure Rust. Suitable for financial, crypto and any other fixed-precision calculations.
GSL
- GuillaumeGomez/rust-GSL - GSL bindings
jolars/basin [basin] - Numerical optimization library with first-order, derivative-free, nonlinear least-squares, evolutionary, and constrained solvers, generic over linear-algebra backends
LAPACK
- stainless-steel/lapack - LAPACK bindings
ml-rust/numr [numr] - Numerical computing library for Rust inspired by NumPy, with tensors, linear algebra, FFT, statistics, automatic differentiation, and GPU acceleration.
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
Science
- Axect/Peroxide - Rust numeric library containing linear algebra, numerical analysis, statistics and machine learning tools in pure rust
- cool-japan/scirs - Production-Ready pure Rust scientific computing, includes linear algebra, optimization, statistics, neural networks and more. API inspired by Python's SciPy.
- cpmech/russell - Rust Scientific Library for numerical mathematics, ordinary differential equations, special math functions, high-performance (sparse) linear algebra
- Nonanti/mathcore - Symbolic mathematics library with CAS capabilities. Supports differentiation, integration, equation solving, and arbitrary precision arithmetic
- Ryan-D-Gast/differential-equations - A high-performance library for numerically solving differential equations
Statrs
- statrs-dev/statrs - Robust statistical computation library

Concurrency

crossbeam-rs/crossbeam - Support for parallelism and low-level concurrency
NikitaSmithTheOne/rate-limiters-rs [rate-limiters] - Rust library for rate limiting (Leaky Bucket, Token Bucket, Fixed/Sliding Window)
orium/archery [archery] - Library to abstract from Rc/Arc pointer types.
orx-parallel - High performance, configurable and expressive parallel computation library.
Rayon - A data parallelism library
rustcc/coroutine-rs - Coroutine Library
zonyitoo/coio-rs - Coroutine I/O

Configuration

andoriyu/uclicious [uclicious] - libUCL based feature-rich configuration library.
Kixunil/configure_me [configure_me] - library for processing application configuration easily
leptonyu/cfg-rs [cfg-rs] - A Configuration Library for Rust Applications.
rust-cli/config-rs [config] - Layered configuration system (with strong support for 12-factor applications).
SergioBenitez/Figment [figment] - A configuration library so con-free, it's unreal.
softprops/envy - deserialize env vars into typesafe structs

Cryptography

[crypto, cryptography]

arkworks-rs/circom-compat - Arkworks bindings to Circom's R1CS, for Groth16 Proof and Witness generation.
briansmith/ring - Safe, fast, small crypto using Rust and BoringSSL's cryptography primitives.
briansmith/webpki - Web PKI TLS X.509 certificate validation.
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
dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek - Curve25519 operations
debris/tiny-keccak - Keccak family (SHA3)
dusk-network/bls12-381 - A Rust-native BLS12-381 with enhancements for zk performance: optimized multi-scalar multiplication, custom hashing, and serde support—ideal for privacy-focused protocols and zero-knowledge applications. [dusk-bls12_381]
dusk-network/plonk - A high-performance, Rust-native implementation of the PLONK zk-SNARK over BLS12-381, optimized with custom gates and KZG10 polynomial commitment for efficient zero-knowledge proofs. [PLONK]
dusk-network/poseidon252 - A Rust-native Poseidon hash over BLS12-381, Poseidon252 is built for zk-SNARK efficiency, ideal for privacy-focused protocols and zero-knowledge applications. [Poseidon]
exonum/exonum [exonum] - extensible framework for blockchain projects
facebook/opaque-ke - Implementation of the recent OPAQUE password-authenticated key exchange.
iddm/randomorg - A random.org client library.
klutzy/suruga - Implementation of TLS 1.2
kn0sys/ecc-rs - Intuitive library for elliptic curve cryptography tutorials
kornelski/rust-security-framework - Bindings for Security Framework (OSX native)
libOctavo/octavo - Modular hash and crypto library
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] - Port of the password primitives used in the Django Project. It doesn't require Django, only hashes and validates passwords according to its style.
rust-native-tls/rust-native-tls - Bindings for native TLS libraries
rust-openssl - OpenSSL bindings
rust-random/rand [rand] - Comprehensive random number generation library with support for strong and small PRNGs, random value sampling, distributions, and random processes.
RustCrypto/hashes - Collection of cryptographic hash functions
rustls/rustls - Implementation of TLS
schnorrkel - Schnorr VRFs and signatures on the Ristretto group
sorairolake/abcrypt [abcrypt] - A simple, modern and secure file encryption library.
sorairolake/scryptenc-rs [scryptenc] - An implementation of the scrypt encrypted data format.
suradet-ps/encryptman [encryptman] - AES-256-GCM encryption for application settings with HKDF key derivation
verifyfetch - Streaming file integrity verification using Rust/WASM SHA-256 hashing with constant memory. Resumable downloads for large files in the browser.

Data processing

amv-dev/yata - high performance technical analysis library
AndreaBozzo/dataprof [dataprof] - Data profiling and quality gates for CSV, JSON, Parquet and Arrow, with Python bindings
bluss/ndarray - N-dimensional array with array views, multidimensional slicing, and efficient operations
DataBora/elusion [elusion] - An end-to-end data engineering DataFrame library built on DataFusion, with connectors for Microsoft Fabric, Azure, SharePoint, FTP, Postgres, MySQL, and REST APIs
datafusion - DataFusion is a very fast, extensible query engine for building high-quality data-centric systems in Rust, using the Apache Arrow in-memory format.
GoPlasmatic/datalogic-rs [datalogic-rs] - High-performance, type-safe JSONLogic evaluation engine for business rules and dynamic filtering, with official bindings for Node, WASM, Python, Go, Java, .NET and PHP
ironcalc/IronCalc [ironcalc] - A new, modern, work-in-progress spreadsheet engine.
kernelmachine/utah - Dataframe structure and operations
lakehq/sail - Sail is a drop-in Apache Spark replacement written in Rust, unifying batch processing, stream processing, and compute-intensive AI workloads.
logisky/LogiSheets [logisheets-rs] - A new, modern spreadsheet engine that drives real products.
openooxml/betteroffice - Native OOXML engines for DOCX, XLSX and PPTX: editing, layout, rendering, CRDT collaboration and agent editing, compiled to WebAssembly.
pathwaycom/pathway - Performant open-source Python ETL framework with Rust runtime, supporting 300+ data sources.
pg_analytics - PostgreSQL extension that accelerates analytical query processing inside Postgres to a performance level comparable to dedicated OLAP databases.
pg_lakehouse - PostgreSQL extension that transforms Postgres into an analytical query engine over object stores like AWS S3/GCS and table formats like Delta Lake/Iceberg.
pola-rs/polars - Fast feature complete DataFrame library
PSU3D0/formualizer [formualizer] - Embeddable spreadsheet engine that parses, evaluates and mutates Excel workbooks: 400+ functions, Arrow-backed storage, incremental recalculation, Python and WASM bindings
weld-project/weld - High-performance runtime for data analytics applications

Data streaming

arkflow-rs/arkflow - High-performance Rust stream processing engine
ArroyoSystems/arroyo - High-performance real-time analytics in Rust and SQL
beava-dev/beava - Single-binary feature server. Push events over HTTP or TCP, query fresh per-entity counters and aggregates inline, no broker in between. For fraud, recommendations, LLM guardrails, and in-product analytics
fluvio - Programmable data streaming platform
iggy [iggy] - Persistent message streaming platform, supporting QUIC, TCP and HTTP transport protocols
wingfoil - Graph based stream processing framework

Data structures

alrevuelta/rs-merkle-tree - Merkle tree implementation in Rust with configurable storage backends and hash functions. Fixed depth and incremental only. Optimized for fast proof generation.
ashvardanian/NumKong - SIMD-accelerated vector distances and similarity functions for x86 AVX2 & AVX-512, and Arm NEON
becheran/grid [grid] - Provide a two dimensional data structure 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. Some of the most common methods you would use on Arrays made available on Vectors. Polymorphic implementations for handling most of your use cases.
enum-map [enum-map] - An optimized map implementation for enums using an array to store values.
fizyk20/generic-array - a hack to allow for arrays sized by typenums
garro95/priority-queue[priority-queue] - A priority queue that implements priority changes.
greyblake/nutype [nutype] - define newtype structures with validation constraints.
jeromefroe/lru-rs [lru] - An implementation of an LRU cache with O(1) put, get, get_mut, and pop operations.
mikwielgus/undoredo [undoredo] - Undo/Redo pattern implementation for arbitrary data structures. Supports delta-based (sparse diffs), snapshot-based, and command-based undo-redo with derive macros for custom types. Compatible with no_std and serde.
mrhooray/kdtree-rs - K-dimensional tree for fast geospatial indexing and nearest neighbors lookup
orium/rpds [rpds] - Persistent data structures.
RoaringBitmap/roaring-rs - Roaring Bitmaps
rust-itertools/itertools - Extra iterator adaptors, functions and macros
sorairolake/bit-int [bit-int] - An arbitrary fixed bit-width integer library
tnballo/scapegoat [scapegoat] - Safe, fallible, stack-only alternative to BTreeSet and BTreeMap.
yamafaktory/hypergraph [hypergraph] - Hypergraph is a data structure library to generate directed hypergraphs.

Data visualization

blitzarx1/egui_graphs [egui_graphs] - Interactive graph visualization widget powered by egui and petgraph.
djduque/pgfplots [pgfplots] - Library to generate publication-quality figures.
mazznoer/colorgrad-rs [colorgrad] - Color scales library for data visualization, charts, games, maps, generative art and others.
milliams/plotlib - Data plotting library for Rust
plotly - Plotly for Rust
plotpy [plotpy] - Rust plotting library using Python (Matplotlib)
plotters -
rerun - [rerun] - An SDK for logging computer vision and robotics data (tensors, point clouds, etc) paired with a visualizer for exploring that data over time.
saresend/gust - A small charting/visualization tool and partial vega implementation
shergin/malevich [malevich] - Terminal plotting: line, scatter, bar, histogram, heatmap, box plot, violin and more, with automatic axes
wangjiawen2013/charton - A layered grammar of graphics library in Rust.

Database

[database]

NoSQL [nosql]
- ArangoDB
  - Aragog [aragog] - A Lightweight ArangoDB Object document, relational and graph mapper
  - Arangors [arangors] - An ArangoDB driver
- Cassandra [cassandra, cql]
  - AlexPikalov/cdrs [cdrs] - native client
  - cassandra-rs - bindings to the DataStax C/C++
  - krojew/cdrs-tokio - High-level async Cassandra client written in 100% Rust.
    - [cassandra-protocol] - Cassandra protocol implementation.
    - [cdrs-tokio] - production-ready async Apache Cassandra driverclient
- CouchDB [couchdb]
  - chill-rs/chill [couchdb] - 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] - 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.
- InfluxDB
  - driftluo/InfluxDBClient-rs - Synchronization interface
- LevelDB
  - skade/leveldb - LevelDB bindings
- LMDB [lmdb]
  - meilisearch/heed [heed] - Fully typed LMDB wrappers with minimum overhead
  - vhbit/lmdb-rs [lmdb-rs] - Rust bindings for LMDB
- MongoDB [mongodb]
  - mongodb/mongo-rust-driver [mongodb] - MongoDB bindings
- MongrelDB
  - visorcraft/MongrelDB [mongreldb-core] - An embedded columnar database engine with SQL, vector search, full-text search, and AI-native retrieval
- PickleDB
  - seladb/pickledb-rs - a lightweight and simple key-value store, heavily inspired by Python's PickleDB.
- PoloDB
  - PoloDB - An embedded JSON-based database has API similar to MongoDB.
- Redb
  - Redb - An embedded key-value database. It provides a similar interface to other embedded key-value stores such as rocksdb and lmdb.
- Redis [redis]
  - aembke/fred [fred] - A high level async Redis client for Rust with Tokio.
  - redis-rs - Redis library
- 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, based on tokio.
OGM [ogm]
- Aragog [aragog] - A Lightweight ArangoDB Object document, relational and graph mapper
ORM [orm]
- ayarotsky/diesel-guard - a linter for Diesel and SQLx that catches dangerous PostgreSQL migrations (table locks, rewrites, blocking ops) and suggests safe alternatives
- diesel-rs/diesel - an ORM and Query builder
- ivanceras/rustorm - an ORM
- njord - ⛵ A versatile, feature-rich Rust ORM
- rbatis/rbatis - ORM Framework High Performance(JSON based)
- SeaQL/sea-orm - 🐚 An async & dynamic ORM
- SeaQL/seaography - 🧭 GraphQL framework for SeaORM
- thegenius/taitan-orm - The State of Art ORM for Rust, Async & Compile Time Generation.
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 definition and discovery
- Microsoft SQL
  - prisma/tiberius -
- MySql [mysql]
  - AgilData/mysql-proxy-rs - A MySQL Proxy
  - blackbeam/mysql_async [mysql_async] - asynchronous Mysql driver based on Tokio.
  - blackbeam/rust-mysql-simple [mysql] - A native MySql client
- Oracle
  - kubo/rust-oracle [oracle] - Oracle driver
- PostgreSql [postgres, postgresql]
  - c410-f3r/wtx - Fast implementation with a low set of external dependencies.
  - isdaniel/pg-walstream - High-performance async CDC (Change Data Capture) library for PostgreSQL logical and physical replication streaming.
  - rust-postgres [postgres] - A native PostgreSQL client
- Sqlite [sqlite]
  - rusqlite - Sqlite3 bindings
VennDB [venndb] - An append-only in-memory database in Rust for rows queried using bit (flag) columns.

Date and time

[date, time]

arthurhenrique/rusti-cal [rusti-cal] - A cal(1) clone lightning-fast ~ more than 9999 years ~ Written in Rust.
burntSushi/jiff - A date-time library for Rust that encourages you to jump into the pit of success.
chronotope/chrono - Date and time library
Mnwa/ms [ms-converter] - it's a library for converting human-like times to milliseconds
sorairolake/dos-date-time [dos-date-time] - An MS-DOS date and time library
sorairolake/nt-time [nt-time] - A Windows file time library.
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 - Rust client for Apache Kafka
HDFS
- hyunsik/hdfs-rs [hdfs] - libhdfs bindings
Other
- build-trust/ockam [ockam] - End-to-End Encryption, Mutual Authentication, and ABAC for distributed applications
- zannis/shove [shove] - Type-safe async pub/sub with one consistent API over RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS JetStream, AWS SNS/SQS, and Redis Streams, with retries, DLQ routing, and autoscaling consumer groups

Domain driven design

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

eBPF

aya/aya-rs - Built with a focus on developer experience and operability.
libbpf/libbpf-rs - A minimal and opinionated eBPF tooling.

Email

[email, imap, smtp]

duesee/imap-codec [imap-codec] - Rock-solid and complete codec for IMAP
gsquire/sendgrid-rs - 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
mailtutan/mailtutan - An SMTP server for test and development environment.
meli/meli - 🐝 terminal mail client
reacherhq/check-if-email-exists [check-if-email-exists] - Check if an email address exists without sending any email, with SMTP validation, disposable address detection, and catch-all checks
rustmailer/bichon - A lightweight, high-performance email archiver with full-text search and WebUI.
staktrace/mailparse [mailparse] - A library for parsing real-world email files
stalwartlabs/mail-auth [mail-auth] - DKIM, ARC, SPF and DMARC message authentication library
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
tweedegolf/mailcrab - Email test server for development.

Encoding

[encoding]

ASN.1
- alex/rust-asn1 - ASN.1 (DER) serializer
Barcode
- rxing-core/rxing [rxing] - A rust port of the zxing barcode library.
Binary
- bincode - A binary encoder/decoder
- bincode-next - A binary encoder/decoder, successor of the now unmaintained bincode
- jamesmunns/postcard [postcard] - Postcard is a #![no_std] focused serializer and deserializer for Serde.
- m4b/goblin [goblin] - cross-platform, zero-copy, and endian-aware binary parsing
BSON
- mongodb/bson-rust - Encoding and decoding support for BSON
Byte swapping
- BurntSushi/byteorder - Supports big-endian, little-endian and native byte orders
Cap'n Proto
- capnproto/capnproto-rust - Cap'n Proto is a type system for distributed systems
CBOR
- serde_cbor - CBOR support for serde
Character Encoding
- hsivonen/encoding_rs [encoding_rs] - A Gecko-oriented implementation of the Encoding Standard
- lifthrasiir/rust-encoding - Character encoding support for Rust. (also known as rust-encoding) It is based on WHATWG Encoding Standard, and also provides an advanced interface for error detection and recovery.
CRC
- mrhooray/crc-rs - Rust implementation of CRC(16, 32, 64) with support of various standards
CSV
- BurntSushi/rust-csv - A fast and flexible CSV reader and writer, with support for Serde
Data Matrix
- jannschu/datamatrix-rs [datamatrix] - Data Matrix (ECC 200) decoding and encoding with an optimizing encoder
EDN
- 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
- cloudwego/sonic-rs [sonic-rs] - A fast Rust JSON library based on SIMD.
- importcjj/rust-ajson [ajson] - Get JSON values quickly
- rustadopt/jzon-rs [jzon] - JSON implementation
- 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
- vcschapp/bufjson [bufjson] - Streaming JSON parser and lexer, no copy/no allocation, optional streaming JSON Pointer evaluator
MsgPack
- 3Hren/msgpack-rust - Low/high level MessagePack implementation
NetCDF
- georust/netcdf [netcdf] - Medium-level netCDF bindings, allowing easy reading and writing of array-like structures to a file.
PEM
- jcreekmore/pem-rs [pem] - Parse and encode PEM-encoded data
ProtocolBuffers
- stepancheg/rust-protobuf - Rust implementation of Google protocol buffers
- tokio-rs/prost -
QR code
- magiclen/qrcode-generator [qrcode-generator] - Generates ISO/IEC 18004 QR Code and Micro QR Code symbols and ISO/IEC 23941 rMQR symbols in pure Rust, then renders them as grayscale, PNG and SVG images.
- sorairolake/qrcode-rust2 [qrcode2] - A QR code encoding library
- WanzenBug/rqrr [rqrr] - Detect and read QR codes from any image source
rkyv
- rkyv/rkyv [rkyv] - rkyv (archive) is a zero-copy deserialization framework
RON (Rusty Object Notation)
- https://github.com/ron-rs/ron - Rusty Object Notation
Serde
- iddm/serde-aux - additional tools for using with the serde library.
TOML
- tamasfe/taplo [taplo] - A TOML toolkit
- toml-rs/toml -
vitiral/stfu8 [stfu8] - Sorta Text Format in UTF-8
XML
- Florob/RustyXML - an XML parser
- netvl/xml-rs - A streaming XML library
- shepmaster/sxd-document - An XML library
- shepmaster/sxd-xpath - An XPath library
- tafia/quick-xml - High performance XML pull reader/writer
- yaserde - Yet Another Serializer/Deserializer specialized for XML
YAML
- chyh1990/yaml-rust - The missing YAML 1.2 implementation.
- saphyr - A set of crates dedicated to parsing YAML.
- serde-saphyr - YAML (de)serializer for Serde, emphasizing panic-free parsing and good error reporting

Filesystem

[filesystem]

Operations
- Camino [camino] - Like Rust's std::path::Path, but UTF-8.
- dmtrKovalenko/fff [fff-search] - Typo-resistant file and content search library with frecency ranking, git-aware annotations, background watcher, and lightweight in-memory content index. Provides MCP server, Node/Bun SDK, C library, and Neovim plugin.
- dnbln/dir-structure [dir-structure] - Model file system trees with plain Rust structures.
- OpenDAL [opendal] - A unified data access layer, empowering users to seamlessly and efficiently retrieve data from diverse storage services.
- ParthJadhav/Rust_Search [rust_search] - Blazingly fast file search library.
- 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.

Finance

avhz/RustQuant [RustQuant] - A quantitative finance library.
d-e-s-o/apca [apca] - Opinionated and comprehensive bindings to the Alpaca API for stock trading and more.
kand-ta/kand [kand] - A Modern, High-Performance Technical Analysis Library in Rust, Python, and JS/TS(WASM).
rust-dd/stochastic-rs [stochastic-rs] - Quantitative finance: 130+ stochastic processes, option pricing and calibration, volatility surfaces and copulas, SIMD/GPU accelerated with Python bindings.
wickra-lib/wickra [wickra] - Streaming-first technical analysis: 514 indicators with O(1) per-tick updates, from a Rust core with native Python, Node.js and WASM bindings plus a C ABI hub for C, C++, C#, Go, Java and R.

Functional Programming

[functional programming]

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

Game development

Geospatial

[geo, gis]

apache/sedona-db - SedonaDB is a geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust.
DaveKram/coord_transforms [coord_transforms] - coordinate transformations (2-d, 3-d, and geospatial)
Georust - geospatial tools and libraries written
georust/geojson [geojson] - Library for serializing and deserializing the GeoJSON vector GIS file format.
MapLibre/Martin - Map tile server with PostGIS, MBTiles, PMTiles, and sprites support.
rust-reverse-geocoder - A fast, offline reverse geocoder, inspired by thampiman/reverse-geocoder
vlopes11/geomorph [geomorph] - conversion between UTM, LatLon and MGRS coordinates

Graph algorithms

neo4j-labs/graph - A library for high-performant graph algorithms
petgraph/petgraph - Graph data structure library.

Graphics

[graphics]

Fonts
- redox-os/rusttype - Alternative to libraries like FreeType
- rustybuzz - An incremental harfbuzz port
gfx-rs/gfx - A high-performance, bindless graphics API.
gfx-rs/wgpu - Native WebGPU implementation based on gfx-hal.
OpenGL [opengl]
- gl-rs - An OpenGL function pointer loader
- glium/glium - safe OpenGL wrapper.
- glutin - Alternative to GLFW
- PistonDevelopers/glfw-rs - GLFW3 bindings and idiomatic wrapper
PDF
- bastibense/libharu_ng [libharu_ng] - Easily generate PDFs from your Rust app.
- fschutt/printpdf - PDF writing library
- fullbleed-engine/fullbleed-official [fullbleed] - Print-focused HTML/CSS-to-PDF engine with reusable templates, variable-data generation, and Python bindings.
- gastongouron/ironpress [ironpress] - Pure Rust HTML/CSS/Markdown-to-PDF converter with a built-in layout engine and no browser or system dependencies.
- hayro - A PDF interpreter and renderer in pure Rust
- J-F-Liu/lopdf - PDF document manipulation
- kaj/rust-pdf - Generating PDF files in pure Rust
- yfedoseev/pdf_oxide [pdf_oxide] - Fast PDF text extraction, creation, and editing with Python bindings
Vulkan [vulkan]
- erupt [erupt] -
- vulkano [vulkano] - Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API

GUI

[gui]

autopilot-rs/autopilot-rs - A simple, cross-platform GUI automation library.
Cocoa
- servo/core-foundation-rs - Rust bindings to Core Foundation and other low level libraries on Mac OS X and iOS
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. 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
euv-dev/euv [euv] - A declarative, cross-platform UI framework for Rust with virtual DOM, reactive signals, and HTML macros for WebAssembly.
FerrisMind/shadcn-rs [iced-shadcn] - iced and egui component set with shadcn/ui aesthetics; includes egui-shadcn.
FLTK
- fltk-rs - FLTK bindings
Flutter
- cunarist/rinf - Rust as your Flutter backend, Flutter as your Rust frontend
- 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/gtk4-rs - GTK4 binding
- relm - Asynchronous, GTK+-based, GUI library, inspired by Elm
iced-rs/iced [iced] - A cross-platform GUI library, focused on simplicity and type-safety. Inspired by Elm.
ImGui
- imgui-rs - 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.
linebender/xilem [xilem] - Experimental reactive UI framework for Rust inspired by React, SwiftUI, and Elm. Built on Masonry, Vello/wgpu, Parley, and AccessKit with web and native backends.
longbridge/gpui-component [gpui-component] - UI components for building fantastic desktop applications using GPUI.
makepad/makepad [makepad-widgets] - Makepad is a creative software development platform that compiles to wasm/webGL, osx/metal, windows/dx11 linux/opengl.
Nuklear
- nuklear-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
project-blinc/Blinc [blinc_app] - A GPU-accelerated, cross-platform UI framework with a GPUI-inspired builder API, glassmorphism effects, spring physics animations, and native rendering on Desktop, Android, and iOS.
Qt
- cyndis/qmlrs - QtQuick bindings
- rust-qt - Qt bindings for Rust
- woboq/qmetaobject-rs - Integrate Qml and Rust by building the QMetaObject at compile time.
Ribir - Ribir is a Rust GUI framework that helps you build beautiful and native multi-platform applications from a single codebase.
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.
smithay - [smithay] is a safe and well-documented library directed to provide building blocks to create Wayland coptositors
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 UI design toolkit druid.

Image processing

abonander/img_hash - Perceptual image hashing and comparison for equality and similarity.
Enet4/dicom-rs - A pure Rust implementation of the DICOM standard, allowing users to work with DICOM objects and interact with DICOM applications, while aiming to be fast, safe, and intuitive to use.
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.
marekm4/dominant_color [dominant_color] - Dominant color extractor
rust-cv/cv - Implement computer vision algorithms, abstractions, and systems. #[no_std] is supported where possible.
teovoinea/steganography [steganography] - A simple steganography library
twistedfall/opencv-rust - Bindings for OpenCV

Language specification

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

Licensing

WyvernIXTL/license-fetcher [license-fetcher] - Fetch licenses of dependencies at build time and embed them into your program.

Logging

[log]

donnie4w/tklog - lightweight and efficient rust structured log library with support for log levels, file segmentation, compressed archiving.
estk/log4rs - highly configurable logging framework modeled after Java's Logback and log4j libraries
fast/logforth - A versatile, extensible, and easy-to-use logging framework for Rust applications. It allows you to configure multiple dispatches, filters, and appenders to customize your logging setup according to your needs.
rbatis/fast_log - Async log High-performance asynchronous logging
rust-lang/log - Logging implementation
seanmonstar/pretty-env-logger - A pretty, easy-to-use logger.
slog-rs/slog - Structured, composable logging
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.
elastio/bon [bon] - generate compile-time-checked builders for structs and functions, provides partial application, optional and named parameters for functions and methods.
Linq-in-Rust - Macro and methods for C#-LINQ-like expressions.

Markup language

bruits/satteri [satteri] - High-performance Markdown and MDX processing. Parses and compiles in Rust, runs plugins in JavaScript. Includes CommonMark parser with MDX extensions, MDAST/HAST tree operations, and NAPI bindings for JavaScript interop.
CommonMark
- pulldown-cmark/pulldown-cmark - CommonMark parser
insomnimus/tidier [tidier] - A library to format HTML, XHTML and XML documents.

Mobile

Android / iOS
- ivnsch/rust_android_ios - An example of using a shared lib for Android and iOS using rust-swig and cbindgen respectively.
Generic
- Geal/rust_on_mobile - iOS CocoaPods / Android JNI
- redbadger/crux [crux_core] - Cross-platform app development. Crux helps you share your app's business logic and behavior across mobile (iOS/Android) and web - as a single reusable core.
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.
CoAP
- Covertness/coap-rs - A Constrained Application Protocol(CoAP) library.
DNS
- kweonminsung/bind9_rndc_rust [rndc] - BIND9 RNDC protocol implementation for Rust
Docker
- fussybeaver/bollard - Docker daemon API
FTP
- mattnenterprise/rust-ftp - an FTP client
gRPC
- hyperium/tonic - A native gRPC client & server implementation with async/await support
- tikv/grpc-rs - The gRPC library built on C Core library and futures
HTTP
- deboa - A friendly http client on top of hyper with several addoons, serialization formats and macros. []
- Hurl - Run and test HTTP requests with plain text and libcurl
IPNetwork
- achanda/ipnetwork - A library to work with IP networks
- candrew/netsim - A library for network simulation and testing
Low level
- actix/actix - Actor library
- 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
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.
- rmqtt/rmqtt - MQTT Server/MQTT Broker - Scalable Distributed MQTT Message Broker for IoT in the 5G Era
NanoMsg
- thehydroimpulse/nanomsg.rs - nanomsg bindings
NATS
- nats-io/nats.rs - 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
P2P
- libp2p/rust-libp2p - Implementation of libp2p networking stack.
- n0-computer/iroh [iroh] - crate for building on direct connections between devices
POP3
- mattnenterprise/rust-pop3 [pop3] - A POP3 client
QUIC
- aws/s2n-quic - An implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol
- cloudflare/quiche - cloudflare implementation of the QUIC transport protocol and HTTP/3
- mozilla/neqo - an Implementation of QUIC
- quinn-rs/quinn - Futures-based QUIC implementation
- tencent/tquic - A high-performance, lightweight, and cross-platform QUIC library
Raknet
- b23r0/rust-raknet - RakNet Protocol implementation
RPC
- remoc-rs/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 developing microservices in easy and simple way.
SIP
- restsend/rsipstack - A RFC 3261 compliant SIP stack
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, backed by libsodium
Stomp
- zslayton/stomp-rs - A STOMP 1.2 client implementation
VPN
- defguard/wireguard-rs - A multi-platform library providing a unified high-level API for managing WireGuard interfaces using native OS kernel and userspace WireGuard protocol implementations
Zenoh
- eclipse-zenoh-flow/zenoh-flow - A declarative framework for computations that span from the Cloud to the Thing
- eclipse-zenoh/zenoh - Zero Overhead Network Protocol
ZeroMQ
- erickt/rust-zmq - ZeroMQ bindings

Parsing

0xlane/pe-sign [pe-sign] - A cross-platform rust no-std library for verifying and extracting signature information from PE files.
cchexcode/wavefront_rs - A parser for the Wavefront OBJ format.
comex/rust-shlex [shlex] - Split a string into shell words, like Python's shlex.
Eliah-Lakhin/lady-deirdre - A framework for new programming languages and LSP servers.
firecrawl/pdf-inspector - Fast Rust library for PDF classification and text extraction.
Folyd/robotstxt - Port of Google's robots.txt parser and matcher C++ library
freestrings/jsonpath - JsonPath engine. Webassembly and Javascript support too
hmeyer/stl_io - A parser for STL (STereoLithography) files
igumnoff/shiva - Shiva library: Implementation in Rust of a parser and generator for documents of any type (Plain text, Markdown, HTML, PDF and etc)
kevinmehall/rust-peg - Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) parser generator
lalrpop/lalrpop - LR(1) parser generator
m4rw3r/chomp - A fast monadic-style parser combinator
Marwes/combine - parser combinator library
mazznoer/csscolorparser-rs [csscolorparser] - CSS color parser library
mohamadzoh/phonelib [phonelib] - A dependency-free Rust library for parsing, validating, formatting, and normalizing international phone numbers.
nrc/zero [zero] - zero-allocation parsing of binary data
ophi-dev/antlr-rust-runtime [antlr-rust-runtime] - ANTLR v4 runtime with a pure-Rust parser generator: generates parsers directly from .g4 grammars (no Java required), validated against the official ANTLR conformance testsuite.
oxc-project/oxc [oxc] - High-performance JavaScript/TypeScript parser, transformer, minifier, and resolver written in Rust. Powers Rolldown, Nuxt, Nova, and more.
pest-parser/pest - The Elegant Parser
ptal/oak - A typed PEG parser generator (compiler plugin)
run-llama/liteparse [liteparse] - Fast and light PDF parsing library with spatial text extraction, bounding boxes, flexible OCR (Tesseract/HTTP servers), and multi-language bindings (Rust, Node.js, Python, WASM). Built on PDFium with CLI tool lit.
rust-bakery/nom - parser combinator library
s-panferov/queryst - A query string parsing library inspired by gs
slimreaper35/dockerfile-parser-rs [dockerfile-parser-rs] - Dockerfile parsing library and CLI tool
softdevteam/grmtools - A LR parser with better error correction
tree-sitter/tree-sitter - A parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library geared towards programming tools
winnow-rs/winnow [winnow] - A byte-oriented, zero-copy, parser combinators library.
xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack [tree-sitter-language-pack] - Pre-built tree-sitter grammars for 300+ languages with a unified parser API and bindings for 14 languages.

Peripherals

AprilNEA/OpenLogi/crates/openlogi-hidpp [openlogi-hidpp] - OpenLogi's vendored fork of the hidpp crate for Logitech HID++ protocol support.
esp-rs/esp-hal [esp-hal] - Bare-metal no_std hardware abstraction layer for Espressif ESP32 devices (ESP32, ESP32-C2/C3/C5/C6/C61, ESP32-H2, ESP32-P4, ESP32-S2/S3). Provides safe Rust APIs for GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART, timers, DMA, and more.
Fingerprint reader
- alvaroparker/libfprint-rs [libfprint-rs] - Libfprint-rs provides a wrapper around the Linux libfprint library.
Michael-A-Kuykendall/crabcamera [crabcamera] - Tauri plugin providing desktop camera access with automated quality validation and hardware controls.
Serial Port
- serialport/serialport-rs [serialport] - A cross-platform library that provides access to a serial port

Platform specific

Cross-platform
- iddm/thread-priority - Simple, crossplatform thread priority management.
- svartalf/rust-battery - Cross-platform information about the notebook batteries
FreeBSD
- fubarnetes/libjail-rs [jail] - 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 bindings to POSIX/Unix/Linux/Winsock2 syscalls
- zargony/fuse-rs - FUSE bindings
Windows
- microsoft/windows-rs - Rust for Windows
- retep998/winapi-rs - Windows API bindings

Reverse engineering

binlex - Binary analysis and reverse engineering framework with function fingerprinting and similarity matching.
idalib [idalib] - Rust bindings for the IDA SDK, enabling the development of standalone analysis tools using IDA v9.0’s idalib
objdiff - A local diffing tool for decompilation projects
wakaru [wakaru] - JavaScript decompiler: unpacks webpack/esbuild/Metro/Browserify bundles into modules and reverses minifier and Babel/TypeScript output into readable code

Scripting

[scripting]

3body-lang - The Three Body Language
boa-dev/boa [boa_engine] - An experimental JavaScript lexer, parser and interpreter written in Rust.
cel-rust [cel-interpreter] - Common expression language parser and interpreter
duckscript - Simple, extendable and embeddable scripting language.
facebook/starlark-rust - A small, deterministic, thread-safe language with Python syntax
fleabitdev/gamelisp - A Lisp-like scripting language for game development
giraffekey/xylo [xylo-lang] - A functional programming language for procedural art.
gluon-lang/gluon - A small, statically-typed, functional programming language
kcl - A constraint-based record & functional language mainly used in configuration and policy scenarios.
kyren/piccolo [piccolo] - Experimental stackless Lua VM implemented in pure Rust with cycle-detecting incremental GC, sandboxing features, and safe Rust <-> Lua bindings.
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
trynova/nova - JavaScript engine written entirely in Rust

Simulation

[simulation]

nyx-space - High fidelity, fast, reliable and validated astrodynamical toolkit library, used for spacecraft mission design and orbit determination
rsasaki0109/rust_robotics [rust_robotics] - Rust implementations of robotics algorithms inspired by PythonRobotics, covering path planning, localization, SLAM, and control, with no_std support and ROS 2 examples

Social networks

Telegram
- tdilb-rs [tdilb-rs] - Crossplatform Rust wrapper around the Telegram Database Library (TDLib)

System

ardaku/whoami [whoami] - crate to get the current user and environment.
GuillaumeGomez/sysinfo [sysinfo] - Cross-platform library to fetch system information
navidys/procsys [procsys] - A library to retrieve system, kernel, and process metrics from the pseudo-filesystems /proc and /sys.
Phate6660/nixinfo [nixinfo] - A lib crate for gathering system info such as cpu, distro, environment, kernel, etc.
sorairolake/sysexits-rs [sysexits] - The system exit codes as defined by <sysexits.h>.

Task scheduling

delay-timer - Time-manager of delayed tasks. Like crontab, but asynchronous tasks are possible.
persistent-scheduler [persistent-scheduler] - A high-performance task scheduling system built with Tokio, offering task persistence, repeatable tasks, and Cron-based scheduling for reliable time-based operations.

Template engine

Handlebars
- sunng87/handlebars-rust - Handlebars template engine with inheritance, custom helper support.
- zzau13/yarte - Yarte stands for Yet Another Rust Template Engine, is the fastest template engine.
HTML
- askama - template rendering engine based on Jinja
- kaj/ructe - HTML template system
- Keats/tera - template engine based on Jinja2 and the Django template language.
- lambda-fairy/maud - compile-time HTML templates
- mitsuhiko/minijinja [minijinja] - minimal dependency template engine based on Jinja2.
- rshtml/rshtml [rshtml] - RsHtml: Compile-time, type-safe, lightweight template engine that embeds Rust in HTML and HTML in Rust.
- Stebalien/horrorshow-rs - compile-time HTML templates
Mustache
- rustache/rustache - a Rust implementation of the Mustache spec

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)
null8626/decancer [decancer] - A tiny package that removes common unicode confusables/homoglyphs from strings.
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
xberg-io/html-to-markdown [html-to-markdown-rs] - Fast, CommonMark-compliant HTML to Markdown converter with a Rust core and bindings for 12 languages.
xberg-io/xberg [xberg] - Document intelligence library that extracts text, tables, and metadata from 97+ formats (PDF, Office, images with OCR, HTML, email, archives), with bindings for 11 languages.
yaa110/rake-rs [rake] - Multilingual implementation of RAKE algorithm for Rust

Text search

andylokandy/simsearch [simsearch] - A simple and lightweight fuzzy search engine that works in memory, searching for similar strings
BurntSushi/fst [fst] - a fast implementation of ordered sets and maps using finite state machines
CurrySoftware/perlin [perlin] - A lazy, zero-allocation and data-agnostic Information Retrieval library
meilisearch/MeiliSearch - Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API.
pg_search - PostgreSQL extension that enables full-text search over SQL tables using the BM25 algorithm, the state-of-the-art ranking function for full-text search.
SeekStorm [SeekStorm] - sub-millisecond full-text search library & multi-tenancy server in Rust
tantivy [tantivy] - A horse-speed full-text search engine library written in Rust.

Unsafe

zerocopy - "Zerocopy makes zero-cost memory manipulation effortless. We write unsafe so you don’t have to."

Video

ffmpeg-sidecar - Wrap a standalone FFmpeg binary in an intuitive Iterator interface.
screencapturekit-rs [screencapturekit] - Safe Rust bindings for Apple's ScreenCaptureKit framework for macOS screen/audio capture

Virtualization

beneills/quantum - Advanced quantum computer simulator
bytecodealliance/wasmtime - A standalone runtime for WebAssembly
capsule - WebAssembly sandboxing runtime for executing untrusted code
chromium/chromiumos/platform/crosvm - CrOSVM Enables Chrome OS to run Linux apps inside a fast, secure virtualized environment
oxidecomputer/propolis - Userspace program for illumos bhyve kernel modules
saurvs/hypervisor-rs - Hardware-accelerated virtualization on OS X
smol-machines/smolvm - Portable microVM sandboxes on libkrun with copy-on-write forking of running VMs
wasmi-labs/wasmi - A lightweight runtime for WebAssembly

Web programming

Backend
- actix/actix-web - A lightweight async web framework with websocket support
- Anansi - A simple full-stack web framework
- loco-rs/loco [loco-rs] - The one-person framework for Rust for side-projects and startups, inspired by Rails.
- Rocket - Rocket is a web framework with a focus on ease-of-use, expressability, and speed
- RustAPI [rustapi-rs] - Ergonomic web framework with compile-time OpenAPI and native MCP
- summer-rs - summer-rs is a application framework written in rust inspired by java's spring-boot.
- tako [tako-rs] - Multi-transport web framework: HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSocket, SSE, gRPC, TCP/UDP and Unix sockets behind one router, on Tokio or Compio.
- tokio-rs/axum - Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper
- tokio-rs/topcoat [topcoat] - A modular, batteries-included full-stack web framework for Rust. Features server-side rendering, client reactivity without WASM, module-based routing, and built-in Tailwind/asset bundling.
- trillium [trillium] - A composable toolkit for building internet applications with async Rust.
Client-side / WASM
- cargo-web - A Cargo subcommand for the client-side Web
- leptos - Leptos is a full-stack, isomorphic web framework leveraging fine-grained reactivity to build declarative user interfaces.
- sauron - Client side web framework which closely adheres to The Elm Architecture.
- seed - A framework for creating web apps
- stdweb - A standard library for the client-side Web
- synphonyte/leptos-use [leptos-use] - Collection of essential Leptos utilities inspired by React-Use and VueUse, with SSR support
- thaw-ui/thaw [thaw] - An easy to use Leptos component library based on Fluent Design
- tinyweb - A minimal Rust web framework for wasm in 800 lines of code
- yew - A framework for making client web apps
HTTP Client
- 0x676e67/wreq - An ergonomic Rust HTTP Client with TLS fingerprint.
- alexcrichton/curl-rust - libcurl bindings
- async-graphql - A GraphQL server library
- c410-f3r/wtx - HTTP/2 client framework
- DoumanAsh/yukikaze [yukikaze] - Beautiful and elegant Yukikaze is little HTTP client library based on hyper.
- ducaale/xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
- graphql-client - Typed, correct GraphQL requests and responses.
- hyperium/hyper - an HTTP implementation
- plabayo/rama - A modular service framework to move and transform your network packets, can be used among other things, to build clients with TLS, JA3/JA4, H2 and QUIC/H3 fingerprint impersonation
- seanmonstar/reqwest - an ergonomic HTTP Client.
HTTP Server
- branca - Implementation of Branca for Authenticated and Encrypted API tokens.
- c410-f3r/wtx - Low and high level HTTP/2 server
- carllerche/tower-web [tower-web] - A fast, boilerplate free, web framework
- Cot - The Rust web framework for lazy developers.
- GildedHonour/frank_jwt - JSON Web Token implementation.
- Gotham - A flexible web framework that does not sacrifice safety, security or speed.
- Graphul - An Express-inspired web framework.
- handlebars-rust - an Iron web framework middleware.
- hyperium/hyper - an HTTP implementation
- Iron - A middleware-based server framework
- Juniper - GraphQL server library
- miketang84/sapper - A lightweight web framework built on async hyper.
- Nickel - inspired by Express
- plabayo/rama - A modular service framework to move and transform your network packets, can also be used to fingerprint incoming clients
- poem-web/poem - A full-featured and easy-to-use web framework.
- 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
- tomaka/rouille - Web framework
- Zino - Next-generation framework for composable applications
Miscellaneous
- cargonauts - A web framework intended for building maintainable, well-factored web apps.
- edezhic/prest [prest] - Progressive RESTful framework aimed to simplify fullstack development
- Goldziher/spikard [spikard] - Multi-language web toolkit with a Rust core and bindings for Python, TypeScript, Ruby, and PHP.
- 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.
- 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 [rust-embed] - A macro to embed static assets into the rust binary
- rookie - Load cookies from any browser on any platform.
- rust-scraper/scraper [scraper] - HTML parsing and querying with CSS selectors.
- serenity-rs/serenity [serenity] - A 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 easily
- teloxide/teloxide - An elegant Telegram bots framework
- tu6ge/valitron [valitron] - An ergonomic, functional and configurable validator
- utkarshkukreti/select.rs [select] - A library to extract useful data from HTML documents, suitable for web scraping.
- Utoipa - Simple, Fast, Code first and Compile time generated OpenAPI documentation
- Utoipauto - Rust Macros to automate the addition of Paths/Schemas to Utoipa
- xberg-io/crawlberg [crawlberg] - High-performance web crawling and scraping engine with HTML-to-Markdown conversion, headless-Chrome fallback, and bindings for 11 languages.
Reverse Proxy
- sozu-proxy/sozu [sozu] - A HTTP reverse proxy.
Static Site Generators
- cobalt-org/cobalt.rs - Static site generator
- 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.
- rochacbruno/marmite [Marmite] - Zero config blog generator
- zensical/zensical - A modern static site generator by the Material for MkDocs team
WebSocket
- c410-f3r/wtx - Client and server with encryption support.
- housleyjk/ws-rs - lightweight, event-driven WebSockets
- iddm/urlshortener-rs - A very simple urlshortener library.
- ratchet [ratchet_rs] - Ratchet is a fast, lightweight and fully asynchronous implementation of the WebSocket protocol with support for extensions and Deflate.
- rerun-io/ewebsock [ewebsock] - Simple WebSocket library for Rust that compiles to both native and web (WASM). Supports sending and receiving text/binary messages with an async-friendly API.
- rust-websocket - A framework for dealing with WebSocket connections (both clients and servers)
- snapview/tungstenite-rs - Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation.
- vi/websocat - CLI for interacting with WebSockets, with functionality of Netcat, Curl and Socat.

Registries

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

cenotelie/cratery - A lightweight private cargo registry with batteries included, built for organisations, including features similar to docs.rs and deps.rs.
Cloudsmith 💲 - A fully managed package management SaaS, with first-class support for public and private Cargo/Rust registries (plus many others). Free for open-source projects.
Crates - The official public registry for Rust/Cargo.
getnora-io/nora - A lightweight, single-binary artifact registry supporting Docker, Maven, npm, PyPI, Cargo, Go, and raw formats. Upstream proxy with caching and air-gap mode.
RepoFlow 💲 - A simple and modern repository platform that can host Rust crate repositories and proxy crates.io. Also supports other package types like Docker, PyPI, Maven, npm, and RubyGems. Available as a cloud service or self-hosted.
w4/chartered - A private, authenticated, permissioned Cargo registry

Resources

A Brief History of Rust. Part 1 - From a developer's pursuit of software stability to a project that nearly destabilized its creator. Part 2. Part 3.
ANSSI-FR/rust-guide - French cybersecurity agency (ANSSI) recommendations for developing secure applications with Rust, with a generated checklist
Arts
- 🦀 Free Ferris Pack 🦀 - Pack of 50+ Free Ferris illustrations with different emotions, poses and situations in PNG and SVG licensed under CC0
Benchmarks
- c410-f3r/wtx-bench - Web benchmarks
- TeXitoi/benchmarksgame-rs - 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
Learning
- 100 Exercises To Learn Rust - Learn Rust through 100 hands-on exercises, covering syntax, types, and more
- An Introduction to Programming using entity-component-systems and existence-based processing in Rust - Book by Bjorn Madsen
- Aquascope - Interactive visualizations of Rust at compile-time and run-time
- Awesome Rust Streaming - A community curated list of livestreams.
- awesome-rust-mentors - A list of helpful mentors willing to take mentees and educate them about Rust and programming.
- CIS 198: Rust Programming - University of Pennsylvania's Comp Sci Rust Programming Course
- CodeCrafters.io - Build your own Redis, Git, Docker, or SQLite
- Comprehensive Rust 🦀 - A 3-day course on Rust Fundamentals plus 1-day courses on Android, Bare-metal Rust, and Concurrency. Available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Korean.
- Easy Rust - Learn Rust in easy English.
- Embedded Software with Rust - A practical introduction to building firmware that is fast, efficient, and far safer than traditional embedded software written in C or C++.
- 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)
- How to Avoid Fighting Rust Borrow Checker - A guide to how borrowing works in Rust, and how to prevent borrow errors, by Qouteall
- Idiomatic Rust - A peer-reviewed collection of articles/talks/repos which teach idiomatic Rust.
- LabEx Rust Skill Tree - A structured Rust learning path with hands-on labs, designed for beginners to master Rust step by step.
- Learn Rust 101 - A guide to aid you in your journey of becoming a Rustacean (Rust developer)
- Learn Rust by 500 lines code - Learn Rust by 500 lines code, build a Todo Cli Application from scratch.
- 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 - a collection of runnable examples that illustrate various Rust concepts and standard libraries.
- Rust Cookbook - A collection of simple examples that demonstrate good practices to accomplish common programming tasks, using the crates of the Rust ecosystem.
- Rust Flashcards - Over 550 flashcards to learn Rust from first principles.
- 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 Language Cheat Sheet
- 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
- Rustfinity - Interactive platform for practicing Rust through hands-on exercises and challenges
- 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
- Tour of Rust - This is meant to be an interactive step by step guide through the features of the Rust programming language.
Performance
- How to avoid bounds checks in Rust (without unsafe!) - All you need to know about optimizing bounds checks
- Performance of Rust language - An overview of Rust's performance-oriented language features
- The Rust Performance Book - Tips for optimizing Rust programs
Podcasts
- New Rustacean - A podcast about learning Rust
- Rustacean Station - A community project for creating podcast content for Rust
Rust Design Patterns - A catalogue of Rust design patterns, anti-patterns and idioms
Rust Guidelines - Aaron Turon's blog posts on rust
Rust Security Handbook - A 10-chapter handbook for writing actually secure Rust: type-safety, panic-proofing & more.
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 - Recorded talks from RustCamp 2015
RustViz - generates visualizations from simple Rust programs to assist users in better understanding the Rust Lifetime and Borrowing mechanism.
Watch Jon Gjengset Implement BitTorrent in Rust - Implementing (part of) a BitTorrent client in Rust

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