Awesome Rust

A curated list of Rust code and resources.

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Table of contents

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• Applications
  • Audio and Music
  • Blockchain
  • Database
  • Emulators
  • File manager
  • Games
  • Graphics
  • Image processing
  • Industrial automation
  • Observability
  • Operating systems
  • Package Managers
  • Payments
  • Productivity
  • Routing protocols
  • Security tools
  • Social networks
  • System tools
  • Task scheduling
  • Text editors
  • Text processing
  • Utilities
  • Video
  • Virtualization
  • Web
  • Web Servers
• Development tools
  • Build system
  • Debugging
  • Deployment
  • Embedded
  • FFI
  • Formatters
  • IDEs
  • Profiling
  • Services
  • Static analysis
  • Testing
  • Transpiling
• Libraries
  • Artificial Intelligence
    • Genetic algorithms
    • Machine learning
    • OpenAI
  • 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
  • eBPF
  • Email
  • Encoding
  • Filesystem
  • Finance
  • Functional Programming
  • Game development
  • Geospatial
  • Graph algorithms
  • Graphics
  • GUI
  • Image processing
  • Language specification
  • Logging
  • Macro
  • Markup language
  • Mobile
  • Network programming
  • Parsing
  • Peripherals
  • Platform specific
  • Scripting
  • Simulation
  • Social networks
  • System
  • Task scheduling
  • Template engine
  • Text processing
  • Text search
  • Unsafe
  • Video
  • Virtualization
  • Web programming
• Registries
• Resources
• License

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Applications

See also Rust - Production organizations running Rust in production.

• alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU enhanced terminal emulator
• 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.
• cloudflare/boringtun - A Userspace WireGuard VPN Implementation
• 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.
• fcsonline/drill - A HTTP load testing application inspired by Ansible syntax
• fend - Arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator
• Fractalide - Simple microservices
• 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.
• MaidSafe - A decentralized platform.
• mdBook - A command line utility to create books from markdown files
• mirrord - Connect your local process and your cloud environment, and run local code in cloud conditions
• nicohman/eidolon - A steam and drm-free game registry and launcher for linux and macosx
• notty - A new kind of terminal
• Pijul - A patch-based distributed version control system
• 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.
• rx - Vi inspired Modern Pixel Art Editor
• Ryot - A self hosted application to track media consumption, fitness, etc.
• 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
• tiny - A terminal IRC client
• UpVPN - WireGuard VPN client for macOS, Linux, and Windows built on Tauri.
• 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

Audio and Music

• 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.
• ncspot - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
• 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!
• Polaris - A music streaming application.
• 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
• 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

• artemis - A simple, modular, and fast framework for writing MEV bots.
• beerus - Beerus is a trustless StarkNet Light Client, ⚡blazing fast ⚡
• 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
• cairo-vm - Implementation of the Cairo VM