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A curated list of Rust code and resources.

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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 CI
  • 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
  • defguard - Enterprise Open Source SSO & WireGuard VPN with real 2FA/MFA
  • denoland/deno - A secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime built with V8 and Tokio Build Status
  • 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. GitHub actionsGitHub actions
  • Edit - A simple editor for simple needs. CI
  • fcsonline/drill - A HTTP load testing application inspired by Ansible syntax
  • fend - Arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator build
  • Fractalide - Simple microservices
  • 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 Build Status
  • 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 Build Status
  • kftray - A cross-platform system tray app for managing and sharing multiple kubectl port-forward configurations. Build Status
  • kytan - High Performance Peer-to-Peer VPN
  • linkerd/linkerd2-proxy - Ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes.
  • 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 Build Status
  • 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
  • nicohman/eidolon - A steam and drm-free game registry and launcher for linux and macosx
  • 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. CI
  • Pijul - A patch-based distributed version control system
  • 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.).
  • 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.
  • 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 latest release
  • 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
  • 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 Build Status
  • 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 build-badge
  • figsoda/mmtc [mmtc] - Minimal mpd terminal client that aims to be simple yet highly configurable build-badge
  • 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 Continuous Deployment
  • 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. build badge
  • 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! Docker Container Build
  • 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. Continuous Integration
  • termusic - Music Player TUI written
  • tunein-cli - Browse and listen to thousands of radio stations across the globe right from your terminal CI
  • 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. Build Status
  • electrumrs - An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server.
  • equilibriumco/beerus - Beerus is a trustless StarkNet Light Client, ⚡blazing fast ⚡ GitHub Workflow Status
  • 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. detect critical check failures
  • Hyperlane - Framework for permissionless, modular interoperability. The offchain clients are written in Rust, as well as the smart contracts for Solana VM and CosmWasm.
  • 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 Build Status
  • linera-io/linera-protocol - A decentralized blockchain infrastructure designed for highly scalable, low-latency Web3 applications Build Status
  • 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 rust
  • 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

Embedded

  • rmk - A feature-rich keyboard firmware.
  • 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

See also crates matching keyword 'emulator'.

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
  • 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

See also Payments applications.

  • klirr [klirr] - Zero-maintenance and smart FOSS generating beautiful invoices for services and expenses.
  • nautechsystems/nautilus_trader - A high-performance, production-grade algorithmic trading platform written in Rust and Python.
  • tackler [tackler] - Fast, reliable bookkeeping engine with native GIT SCM support for plain text accounting CI Badge
  • tarkah/tickrs - Realtime ticker data in your terminal

Games

See also Games Made With Piston.

Graphics

Image processing

Industrial automation

Message Queue

  • 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

  • TensorZero - data & learning flywheel for LLMs that unifies inference, observability, optimization, and experimentation

Observability

  • avito-tech/bioyino - A high-performance scalable StatsD compatible server.
  • 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. GitHub Actions CI
  • Quickwit-oss/quickwit - Cloud-native and highly cost-efficient search engine for log management. CI
  • Scaphandre - A power consumption monitoring agent, to track host and each service power consumption and enable designing systems and applications for more sustainability. Designed to fit any monitoring toolchain (already supports prometheus, warp10, riemann...).
  • vectordotdev/vector - A High-Performance, Logs, Metrics, & Events Router.

Operating systems

See also A comparison of operating systems written in Rust.

  • 0x59616e/SteinsOS - An OS for armv8-a architecture.
  • [Andy-Python-Programmer/aero](https://github.com/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.
  • 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.
  • 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 build
  • 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 CI
  • agent-of-empires - A TUI/CLI for managing multiple AI coding agent sessions with tmux, git worktrees, and Docker sandboxing CI
  • 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.
  • ast-grep - A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting.
  • Bartib [Bartib] - A simple timetracker for the command line Tests
  • CookCLI - Command-line recipe manager with web server, shopping lists, and meal planning capabilities.
  • espanso - A cross-platform Text Expander. CI
  • 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.
  • flusterIO/fluster - An all-in-one note taking application built for STEM students and professionals. publish
  • fulsomenko/kanban [kanban-tui] - Terminal-based project management tool inspired by lazygit CI

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