Languages Written in Rust
This is a (probably incomplete) list of languages implemented in Rust. It is intended as a source of inspiration and comparison, and as a directory of potentially interesting projects in this vein.
What Can Be Included?
- Is it a language?
- Is it written in Rust?
Then it can be included in this list!
List of Languages
| Name | ⭐ Stars | ☀️ Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deno | 84,736 | ☀️ Active | A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. |
| Rust | 70,786 | ☀️ Active | Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. |
| Parcel JavaScript Transformer | 41,178 | ☀️ Active | Blazing fast, zero configuration web application bundler. |
| swc | 23,512 | ☀️ Active | A JavaScript/TypeScript compiler and bundler written in Rust |
| RustPython | 11,896 | ☀️ Active | A Python Interpreter written in Rust. |
| Gleam | 4,061 | ☀️ Active | A type safe language for the Erlang VM. |
| Melody | 3,916 | ☀️ Active | A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more easily readable and maintainable. |
| Boa | 3,228 | ☀️ Active | An embeddable and experimental Javascript engine written in Rust. |
| Artichoke | 2,764 | ☀️ Active | A Ruby made with Rust. |
| Gluon | 2,613 | ☀️ Active | A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust. |
| Rhai | 2,036 | ☀️ Active | An embedded scripting language for Rust. |
| Jakt | 2,015 | ☀️ Active | A memory-safe systems programming language. |
| Parcel CSS | 2,014 | ☀️ Active | A CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust. |
| Erg | 1,739 | ☀️ Active | A Python-compatible statically typed language. |
| Scryer Prolog | 1,500 | ☀️ Active | A modern Prolog implementation written mostly in Rust. |
| Dyon | 1,474 | ☀️ Active | A rusty dynamically typed scripting language. |
| Ante | 1,460 | ☀️ Active | A safe, easy systems language. |
| goscript | 1,357 | ☀️ Active | Go specs implemented as a script language in Rust. |
| Mun | 1,335 | ☀️ Active | A programming language empowering creation through iteration. |
| Fe | 1,183 | ☀️ Active | Emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain. |
| Nickel | 1,095 | ☀️ Active | Cheap configuration language. |
| Differential Datalog | 1,025 | ☀️ Active | An incremental programming language. |
| Rune | 1,016 | ☀️ Active | An embeddable dynamic programming language for Rust. |
| frawk | 986 | ☀️ Active | frawk is a small programming language for writing short programs processing textual |
| Passerine | 972 | ☀️ Active | A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code. |
| Tao | 755 | ☀️ Active | A statically-typed functional programming language. |
| Ketos | 713 | ☀️ Active | Lisp dialect scripting and extension language for Rust programs. |
| Astro | 650 | ☀️ Active | A fun safe language for rapid prototyping and high performance applications. |
| CSML | 624 | ☀️ Active | Conversational Standard Meta Language. |
| Pikelet | 568 | ☀️ Active | A friendly little systems language with first-class types. |
| SPWN | 560 | ☀️ Active | A programming language that compiles to Geometry Dash levels. |
| Starlight | 424 | ☀️ Active | JS engine in Rust. |
| Wu | 380 | ☀️ Active | A practical game and data language. |
| CalcuLaTeX | 364 | ☀️ Active | A pretty printing calculator language with support for units. |
| Starlark | 311 | ☀️ Active | A Rust implementation of the Starlark language. |
| Wain | 307 | ☀️ Active | WebAssembly implementation from scratch in Safe Rust with zero dependencies. |
| Koto | 304 | ☀️ Active | A simple, expressive, embeddable programming language, made with Rust. |
| Leo | 293 | ☀️ Active | A Functional, Statically-Typed Language for Zero-Knowledge Applications. |
| Sphinx | 286 | ☀️ Active | An intepreter for a simple dynamic language written in Rust. |
| Monkey-Rust | 255 | ☀️ Active | An interpreter for the Monkey programming language written in Rust. |
| Sway | 237 | ☀️ Active | Sway is a language developed for the Fuel blockchain. |
| Orion | 227 | ☀️ Active | A high level, purely functional programming language with a LISP based syntax. |
| EndBASIC | 218 | ☀️ Active | BASIC environment with a REPL, a web interface, and RPi support written in Rust. |
| Eldiro | 189 | ☀️ Active | A programming language to teach how to implement languages in Rust. |
| Tokay | 182 | ☀️ Active | Tokay is a programming language designed for ad-hoc parsing, inspired by awk. |
| Inko | 178 | ☀️ Active | Inko is a statically-typed, safe, object-oriented programming language for writing concurrent programs. |
| atto | 134 | ☀️ Active | A simple self-hosted functional programming language. |
| Lurk | 129 | ☀️ Active | Statically-scoped dialect of Lisp |
| Butter | 110 | ☀️ Active | A tasty language for building efficient software. |
| crafting-interpreters-rs | 103 | ☀️ Active | Crafting Interpreters in Rust. |
| Minitt | 96 | ☀️ Active | Dependently-typed lambda calculus, Mini-TT, extended and implemented in Rust. |
| Voile | 86 | ☀️ Active | Dependently-typed row-polymorphic programming language. |
| Jazz | 86 | ☀️ Active | Modern and fast programming language. |
| Antimony | 84 | ☀️ Active | A bullshit-free programming language that gets out of your way. |
| Rust-lisp | 80 | ☀️ Active | A small Lisp interpreter written in Rust. |
| Rust-Prolog | 77 | ☀️ Active | Rust implementation of prolog based on miniprolog. |
| KCLVM | 74 | ☀️ Active | A constraint-based record & functional language mainly used in configuration and policy scenarios. |
| Laythe | 57 | ☀️ Active | A dynamically typed language originally based on the crafting interpreters series. |
| Calypso | 57 | ☀️ Active | Calypso is a mostly imperative language with some functional influences that is focused on flexibility and simplicity. |
| rtforth | 56 | ☀️ Active | Forth implemented in Rust for realtime applications. |
| rulox | 52 | ☀️ Active | Implementation in Rust of lox, the language described in Crafting Interpreters. |
| Calcit | 52 | ☀️ Active | ClojureScript inspired language, supports indentation-based syntax and tree editor, interprets and also compiles to JavaScript. |
| Crunch | 51 | ☀️ Active | A strongly & statically typed systems level language focused on ease of use, portability and speed, built for the modern age. |
| Steel | 51 | ☀️ Active | An embedded scheme interpreter written in Rust. |
| Blazescript | 47 | ☀️ Active | A basic scripting language. |
| Darksecond/lox | 43 | ☀️ Active | A rust implementation of the lox language. |
| Chili | 36 | ☀️ Active | General-purpose programming language focused on productivity, expressiveness and joy of programming™. |
| tox | 32 | ☀️ Active | Tox is a statically typed version programming language that is written in rust. |
| rodaine/rlox | 32 | ☀️ Active | Lox Interpreter/REPL written in Rust. |
| Foolang | 31 | ☀️ Active | A Smalltalk-inspired toy language. |
| ucg | 28 | ☀️ Active | A configuration compiler with multiple formats as backends written in Rust. |
| Lisp.rs | 26 | ☀️ Active | Scheme Interpreter in Rust. |
| Pr47 | 21 | ☀️ Active | An embedded script language specially designed for seemless interaction with Rust |
| Synthizer | 20 | ☀️ Active | A simple, experimental functional language for real time additive audio synthesis. |
| Ellie | 18 | ☀️ Active | A scripting engine that runs on embedded and sandboxed environments. |
| lox-rs | 16 | ☀️ Active | A Lox Interpreter in Rust. |
| cat-lox | 13 | ☀️ Active | A tree-walk lox interpreter written in Rust. |
| rctcwyvrn/rlox | 13 | ☀️ Active | Rust implementation of the bytecode VM (clox) from Crafting Interpreters. |
| Arn | 13 | ☀️ Active | A functional golfing language. |
| The Force | 12 | ☀️ Active | A fully armed and operational Star Wars themed programming language |
| minipyth | 7 | ☀️ Active | A minimalist programming language. |
| relox | 6 | ☀️ Active | Rust port of the jlox interpreter. |
| Sligh | 6 | ☀️ Active | A certifying compiler from infrastructure-agnostic specification to web application code (experimental) |
| rox | 5 | ☀️ Active | A Rust port of Crafting Interpreters. |
| radogost/rlox | 5 | ☀️ Active | An implementation of lox from the great book Crafting Interpreters implemented in Rust. |
| loxidation | 4 | ☀️ Active | Lox bytecode compiler and VM in Rust. |
| Tethys | 4 | ☀️ Active | A toy functional programming language with a System F-based core calculus. |
| lax | 3 | ☀️ Active | A lox interpreter. |
| 🌌 | 3 | ☀️ Active | Toy language with (almost) anything allowed as an identifier. |
| cloxrs | 2 | ☀️ Active | Lox implementation written in Rust. |
| yarli | 2 | ☀️ Active | Yet Another Rusty Lox Interpreter. |
| Schwift | 30 | 🌙 Inactive | An imperative programming language based on the show Rick and Morty. |
| Radicle | 11 | 🌙 Inactive | An Ur-lisp interpreter written in Rust. |
| Lang | 8 | 🌙 Inactive | An imperative programming language written in Rust. |
| loxr | 6 | 🌙 Inactive | A Rust interpreter for the Lox language. |
| Iron | 5 | 🌙 Inactive | A Lisp-based language written in Rust. |
| loxrs | 5 | 🌙 Inactive | Crafting Interpreters in Rust (Part II: A tree-walk interpreter). |
| justinmayhew/lox | 4 | 🌙 Inactive | A Rust implementation of Lox from Crafting Interpreters. |
| sasurau4/lox-rust | 4 | 🌙 Inactive | Interpreter for lox written by rust. |
| nt591/lox-rust | 2 | 🌙 Inactive | A Rust implementation of the Crafting Interpreters bytecode VM. |
| roxt | 2 | 🌙 Inactive | A Lox interpreter written in Rust. |
*: Parcel is a large project of which the JavaScript transformer (written in Rust) is a small part. The "stars" number here reflects the whole project, which is broader than a programming language project.