Awesome Rust

A curated list of Rust code and resources.

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Table of contents

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

Applications

See also Rust — Production organizations running Rust in production.

• alacrittystars42.1k — A cross-platform, GPU enhanced terminal emulator
• asm-cli-ruststars213 — An interactive assembly shell written in rust.
• cloudflare/boringtunstars4.6k — A Userspace WireGuard VPN Implementation
• datafusionstars2.5k — Apache Arrow DataFusion and Ballista query engines
• denoland/denostars85.5k — A secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime built with V8, Rust, and Tokio
• Factotumstars192 — A system to programmatically run data pipelines
• fcsonline/drillstars1.4k — A HTTP load testing application inspired by Ansible syntax
• fendstars72 - Arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator
• Fractalidestars772 — Simple Rust Microservices
• habitatstars2.4k — A tool created by Chef to build, deploy, and manage applications.
• Herdstars97 — an experimental HTTP load testing application
• jedisct1/flowggerstars713 — A fast, simple and lightweight data collector
• kalkerstars1.1k - A scientific calculator that supports math-like syntax with user-defined variables, functions, derivation, integration, and complex numbers. Cross platform + WASM support
• kytanstars345 — High Performance Peer-to-Peer VPN
• linkerd/linkerd2-proxystars1.6k — Ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes.
• MaidSafe — A decentralized platform.
• mdBook — A command line utility to create books from markdown files
• nicohman/eidolonstars109 — A steam and drm-free game registry and launcher for linux and macosx
• nottystars2.2k — A new kind of terminal
• Pijul — A patch-based distributed version control system
• rxstars2.5k — Vi inspired Modern Pixel Art Editor
• Servostars21.6k — A prototype web browser engine
• shuttlestars903 — A serverless platform built for Rust
• tinystars784 — A terminal IRC client
• trust-dns — A DNS-server
• wasmerstars13.1k — A safe and fast WebAssembly runtime supporting WASI and Emscripten
• Weldstars224 — Full fake REST API generator
• weztermstars5.8k — A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
• zellijstars8.4k — A terminal multiplexer (workspace) with batteries included

Audio and Music

• enginesoundstars183 — 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.
• Glicolstars1k — Graph-oriented live coding language written in Rust for collaborative musicking in browsers.
• ncspotstars3.2k - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
• Polarisstars964 — A music streaming application.
• Spotify TUIstars13.3k — A Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.
• Spotifydstars6.4k — An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon.

Cryptocurrencies

• Akulastars650 - Rust Ethereum Execution Layer (EL) Client (WIP)
• Bitcoin Satoshi's Visionstars49 [sv] — A Rust library for working with Bitcoin SV .
• ChainXstars249 — Fully Decentralized Interchain Crypto Asset Management on Polkadot.
• CITAstars1.3k — A high performance blockchain kernel for enterprise users.
• coinbase-pro-rsstars125 — Coinbase pro client in Rust, supports sync/async/websocket
• Diemstars16.5k — Diem’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.
• electrumrsstars656 — An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust.
• ethabistars334 - Encode and decode smart contract invocations.
• ethaddrgenstars146 — Custom Ethereum vanity address generator made in Rust
• ethers-rsstars1.2k - Complete Ethereum & Celo library and wallet implementation in Rust.
• etkstars222 - etk is a collection of tools for writing, reading, and analyzing EVM bytecode.
• Foreststars472 - Rust Filecoin implementation
• Foundrystars4.3k - Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.
• Grinstars5k — Evolution of the MimbleWimble protocol
• hdwalletstars24 [hdwallet] — BIP-32 HD wallet related key derivation utilities.
• Holochainstars709 — Scalable P2P alternative to blockchain for all those distributed apps you always wanted to build.
• ibc-rsstars258 - Rust implementation of the Interblockchain Communication protocol
• infincia/bip39-rsstars48 [bip39] — Rust implementation of BIP39.
• interBTCstars175 — Trustless and fully decentralized Bitcoin bridge to Polkadot and Kusama.
• Joystreamstars148 — A user governed video platform
• Lighthousestars2k — Rust Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL) Client
• mev-inspect-rsstars392 - Ethereum MEV Inspector in Rust
• near/nearcorestars1.9k — decentralized smart-contract platform for low-end mobile devices.
• Nervos CKBstars1k — Nervos CKB is a public permissionless blockchain, the common knowledge layer of Nervos network.
• Nimiqstars72 — Rust implementation of Nimiq node
• opensea-rsstars213 - Rust bindings & CLI to the Opensea API and Contracts.
• Parity-Bitcoinstars712 — The Parity Bitcoin client
• Phala-Network/phala-blockchainstars293 — Confidential smart contract blockchain based on Intel SGX and Substrate
• Polkadotstars6.3k — Heterogeneous multi‑chain technology with pooled security
• revmstars359 - Revolutionary Machine (revm) is a fast Ethereum virtual machine written in rust.
• rust-bitcoinstars1.2k — Library with support for de/serialization, parsing and executing on data structures and network messages related to Bitcoin.
• rust-lightningstars794 — Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. The main crate,lightning, does not handle networking, persistence, or any other I/O. Thus,it is runtime-agnostic, but users must implement basic networking logic, chain interactions, and disk storage.po on linking crate.
• Solanastars9.5k — Incredibly fast, highly scalable blockchain using Proof-of-History.
• Substratestars7.5k — Generic modular blockchain template written in Rust
• svm-rsstars99 - Solidity-Compiler Version Manager.
• tendermint-rsstars404 - Rust implementation of Tendermint blockchain data structures and clients
• wagyustars519 [wagyu] — Rust library for generating cryptocurrency wallets
• zcashstars4.7k — Zcash is an implementation of the "Zerocash" protocol.

Database

• Databendstars4.6k - A Modern Real-Time Data Processing & Analytics DBMS with Cloud-Native Architecture
• indradb — Rust based graph database
• Lucidstars288 — High performance and distributed KV store accessible through a HTTP API.
• Materializestars4.5k - Streaming SQL database powered by Timely Dataflow
• noriastars4.4k [noria] — Dynamically changing, partially-stateful data-flow for web application backends
• ParityDBstars156 — Fast and reliable database, optimised for read operation
• PumpkinDBstars1.3k — an event sourcing database engine
• Qdrantstars2.6k - An open source vector similarity search engine with extended filtering support
• RisingWaveLabs/RisingWavestars3.2k - the next-generation streaming database in the cloud
• seppo0010/rsedisstars1.6k — A Redis reimplementation in Rust
• Skytablestars1.3k — A multi-model NoSQL database
• sled — A (beta) modern embedded database
• SurrealDBstars12.6k — A scalable, distributed, document-graph database
• TerminusDBstars296 - open source graph database and document store
• tikvstars11.9k — A distributed KV database in Rust
• vorot93/libmdbx-rsstars33 [mdbx-sys] — Rust bindings for MDBX, a "fast, compact, powerful, embedded, transactional key-value database, with permissive license". This is a fork of mozilla/lmdb-rs with patches to make it work with libmdbx.
• WooriDBstars115 - General purpose time serial database inspired by Crux and Datomic.

Emulators

See also crates matching keyword 'emulator'.

• CHIP-8
  • ColinEberhardt/wasm-rust-chip8stars232 — A WebAssembly CHIP-8 emulator written with Rust
  • starrhorne/chip8-ruststars98 — Yet another rust chip8 emulator
• Commodore 64
  • kondrak/rust64stars209 —
• Flash Player
  • Rufflestars10.7k — Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language. Ruffle targets both the desktop and the web using WebAssembly.
• Gameboy
  • Gekkio/mooneye-gbstars779 —
  • mohanson/gameboystars1.1k — Full featured Cross-platform GameBoy emulator. Forever boys!.
  • mvdnes/rboystars499 —
• Gameboy Advance
  • michelhe/rustboyadvance-ngstars484 - RustboyAdvance-ng is a Gameboy Advance emulator with desktop, android and WebAssembly support.
• Intel 8080 CPU
  • mohanson/i8080stars78 — Intel 8080 cpu emulator by Rust
• NES
  • koute/pinkystars694 —
  • pcwalton/sprocketnesstars717
• ZX Spectrum
  • rustzx/rustzxstars154 —

Games

See also Games Made With Piston.

• cityboundstars7.2k — The city sim you deserve
• cristicbz/rust-doomstars2.2k — A renderer for Doom, may progress to being a playable game
• doukutsu-rsstars514 — A Rust reimplementation of Cave Story engine with some enhancements.
• garkimasera/rusted-ruinsstars422 — Extensible open world rogue like game with pixel art
• gorilla-devs/feriumstars500 — Ferium is a fast and feature rich CLI program for downloading and updating Minecraft mods from Modrinth, CurseForge, and GitHub Releases, and modpacks from Modrinth and CurseForge
• lifthrasiir/angolmois-ruststars94 — A minimalistic music video game which supports the BMS format
• mara214/rsnakestars80 — Snake written in Rust.
• ozkriff/zemerothstars1.2k — A small 2D turn-based hexagonal strategy game
• rhexstars134 — hexagonal ascii roguelike
• rsaarelm/magogstars342 — A roguelike game in Rust
• SoftbearStudios/mk48stars146 — Mk48.io is an online multiplayer naval combat game
• swatteau/sokoban-rsstars133 — A Sokoban implementation
• thetawavegame/thetawave-legacystars191 - A space shooter game that strives to be an entry point for new game developers to make their first contributions.
• Thinkofname/rust-quakestars55 — Quake map renderer in Rust
• ttyperacer/terminal-typeracer - Single player typing test game written for the terminal
• Veloren — An open world, open source multiplayer voxel RPG game currently in alpha development
• Zone of Controlstars351 — A turn-based hexagonal strategy game

Graphics

• ivanceras/svgbobstars3.3k — converts ASCII diagrams into SVG graphics
• Limeth/eucliderstars181 — A real-time 4D CPU ray tracer
• RazrFalcon/resvgstars1.6k — An SVG rendering library.
• turnage/valora — A library for generative fine art
• Twinklebear/tray_ruststars476 — A ray tracer

Image processing

• Imagerstars451 — Automated image optimization.
• shssoichiro/oxipngstars1.7k [oxipng] — Multithreaded PNG optimizer written in Rust.

Industrial automation

• locka99/opcuastars339 — A pure rust OPC UA library.
• slowtec/tokio-modbusstars202 — A tokio-based modbus library.

Observability

• avito-tech/bioyinostars207 — A high-performance scalable StatsD compatible server.
• OpenTelemetry — OpenTelemetry provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents, and collector services to capture distributed traces and metrics from your application. You can analyze them using Prometheus, Jaeger, and other observability tools.
• Quickwit-oss/quickwitstars2.4k - Cloud-native and highly cost-efficient search engine for log management.
• Scaphandrestars786 - 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/vectorstars11.3k — A High-Performance, Logs, Metrics, & Events Router.

Operating systems

See also A comparison of operating systems written in Ruststars431.

• 0x59616e/SteinsOSstars82 — An OS for armv8-a architecture.
• redox-os/redox —
• thepowersgang/rust_osstars590 —
• theseus-os/Theseusstars2.1k — A safe-language, single address space and single privilege level OS written from scratch in pure Rust -
• tock/tockstars3.8k — A secure embedded operating system for Cortex-M based microcontrollers

Productivity

• Bartibstars302 [Bartib] - A simple timetracker for the command line
• espansostars5.9k — A cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
• eureka — A CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
• pier-cli/pierstars387 — A central repository to manage (add, search metadata, etc.) all your one-liners, scripts, tools, and CLIs

Security tools

• AFLplusplus/LibAFLstars1k - Advanced Fuzzing Library - Slot your Fuzzer together in Rust! Scales across cores and machines. For Windows, Android, MacOS, Linux, no_std, etc.
• arvancloud/libinjection-rsstars35 — Rust bindings for libinjectionstars917
• Cherrybombstars598 - Stop half-done API specifications with a CLI tool that helps you avoid undefined user behaviour by validating your API specifications.
• epi052/feroxbusterstars3.2k - A simple, fast, recursive content discovery tool written in Rust (
• Inspektorstars254 - A database protocol-aware proxy that is used to enforce access policies 👮
• kpcyrd/authoscopestars332 — A scriptable network authentication cracker
• kpcyrd/rshijackstars368 — A TCP connection hijacker, rust rewrite of shijack
• kpcyrd/sn0intstars1.3k — A semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager
• kpcyrd/sniffgluestars885 — A secure multithreaded packet sniffer
• ObserverWardstars463 — Community based web technologies analysis tool.
• phra/rustbusterstars441 — A Comprehensive Web Fuzzer and Content Discovery Tool
• ripassostars523 — A password manager, filesystem compatible with pass
• rustscan/rustscanstars7.2k — Make Nmap faster with this port scanning tool

Simulation

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

System tools

• ajeetdsouza/zoxidestars7.8k — A fast alternative to cd that learns your habits
• Alonely0/Voilastars82 — Voila is a domain-specific language launched through CLI tool for operating with files and directories in massive amounts in a fast & reliable way.
• bandwhichstars7.3k — Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
• bottomstars5.1k - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
• brocode/fblogstars238 — Small command-line JSON Log viewer
• bustdstars176 - Lightweight process killer daemon to handle out-of-memory scenarios on Linux.
• buster/rrunstars104 — A command launcher for Linux, similar to gmrun
• cantino/mcflystars4.5k - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!
• crabzstars219 - Multi-threaded compression and decompression CLI tool
• cristianoliveira/funzzystars183 — A configurable filesystem watcher inspired by entr
• dalance/procsstars3.3k — A modern replacement for 'ps' written by Rust
• ddhstars358 — Fast duplicate file finder
• diskonautstars1.5k — Terminal visual disk space navigator
• duststars5k — A more intuitive version of du
• fselect — Find files with SQL-like queries
• gituistars10.7k - Blazing fast terminal client for git written in Rust.
• Kondostars721 - CLI & GUI tool for deleting software project artifacts and reclaiming disk space
• lotabout/rargsstars370 [rargs] — xargs + awk with pattern matching support
• lotabout/skimstars3.5k — A fuzzy finder in pure rust
• Luminarys/synapsestars797 — Flexible and fast BitTorrent daemon.
• m4b/bingrepstars1.6k — Greps through binaries from various OSs and architectures, and colors them.
• mitnk/cicadastars900 — A bash-like Unix shell
• mmstick/concurrstars92 — Alternative to GNU Parallel w/ a client-server architecture
• mmstick/fontfinderstars244 — GTK3 application for previewing and installing Google's fonts
• mmstick/tv-renamerstars143 — A tv series renaming application with an optional GTK3 frontend.
• mxseev/logramstars83 — Push log files' updates to Telegram
• nickgerace/gfoldstars186 [gfold] - CLI tool to help keep track of multiple Git repositories
• nivekuil/ripstars659 - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm
• ogham/exastars19.4k — A replacement for 'ls'
• orhun/kmonstars1.6k — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
• orhun/systeroidstars699 — A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface
• ouchstars638 - Painless compression and decompression on the command-line
• Peltoche/lsdstars8.4k — An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
• pop-os/popsiclestars449 — GTK3 & CLI utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel
• pop-os/system76-powerstars446 — Linux power management daemon (DBus-interface) with CLI tool.
• pueuestars3.1k — Manage your long running shell commands.
• redox-os/ionstars1.3k — Next-generation system shell
• sharkdp/batstars37.3k — A cat(1) clone with wings.
• sharkdp/fdstars24.7k — A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
• sitkevij/hexstars378 — A colorized hexdump terminal utility.
• trippystars75 - A network diagnostic tool
• uutils/coreutilsstars12.5k — A cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils [
• watchexecstars3.3k — Executes commands in response to file modifications
• XAMPPRocky/tokeistars7.1k — counts the lines of code

Task scheduling

• delicatestars480 — A lightweight and distributed task scheduling platform written in rust.

Text editors

• amp — Inspired by Vi/Vim.
• gchp/iotastars1.5k — A simple text editor
• helixstars13.2k — A post-modern modal text editor inspired by Neovim/Kakoune.
• ilai-deutel/kibistars838 — A tiny (≤1024 LOC) text editor with syntax highlighting, incremental search and more.
• lapcestars18.4k — Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.
• mathall/rimstars547 — Vim-like text editor written in Rust
• oxstars2.8k — An independent Rust text editor that runs in your terminal!
• Remacsstars4.5k — A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust.
• vamolessa/pepperstars272 [pepper] — An opinionated modal editor to simplify code editing from the terminal
• xi-editorstars19.6k — A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.

Text processing

• dominikwilkowski/cfontsstars1.1k [cfonts] — Sexy ANSI fonts for the console
• grexstars5.6k — A command-line tool and library for gen