Awesome Alternatives in Rust

A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust.

If you want to contribute, please read CONTRIBUTING.md.

I renamed the repository to "Awesome Alternatives in Rust". The original name was "Awesome Rewrite It In Rust". For more details, please refer to this issue.

Applications
- Container
- Games
- Performance
- System tools
- Terminal
- Text editors
- Text processing
- Utilities
- Web
Development tools
- Command runners
- Linters
Libraries
- Email

Applications

Container

runc

youki - An experimental container runtime written in Rust

Games

Stockfish

Pleco - A Rust-based re-write of the Stockfish Chess Engine

Performance

jMeter

drill - A HTTP load testing application written in Rust

System tools

autojump / z

zoxide - A smarter cd command for your terminal.

awk

frawk - an efficient awk-like language

bash/PowerShell/fish

ion - A modern shell developed for RedoxOS. But is still capable on *nix platforms.
nushell - An attractive structured shell

bc

cpc - Text calculator with support for units and conversion
eva - a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)

cat

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

cloc

tokei - Count your code, quickly.

coreboot

oreboot - oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.

cp

xcp - An extended cp

cut

choose - A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk
hck - A sharp cut(1) clone

diff

delta - A viewer for git and diff output

dig

dog - A command-line DNS client.

du

dua - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust

find

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

fzf

skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!

GNU coreutils

coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

hexdump

hexyl - A command-line hex viewer

httpie

xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

ls

exa - A replacement for 'ls'
lsd - An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
nat - ls alternative with useful info and a splash of color 🎨

nvm

fnm - 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
volta - Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡

Midnight Commander

broot - A better way to navigate directories

ps

procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

rbenv

frum - A little bit fast and modern Ruby version manager written in Rust

rename

rnr - A command-line tool to batch rename files and directories

rm

rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm

sed

sad - CLI search and replace | Space Age seD
sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

strings

stringsext - Find multi-byte-encoded strings in binary data

sudo

please - sudo like program with regex support written in rust

sysctl

systeroid - A more powerful alternative to sysctl with a terminal user interface

time

hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool

tldr

navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

top

bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
ytop (no longer maintained) - A TUI system monitor written in Rust

uniq

huniq - Filter out duplicates on the command line.

xargs

rargs - A kind of xargs + awk with pattern-matching support.

yay

paru - Feature packed AUR helper

Terminal

Spaceship

starship - ☄️🌌 The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

termite

Alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

tmux

Zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

Text editors

Vim

Amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.

Text processing

grep

ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

Utilities

codemod

fastmod - A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool

jq

jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool built with Rust 🦀

lazygit

gitui - Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in Rust 🦀

Web

Lemmy - 🐀 Building a federated alternative to reddit in rust

teddit

libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust

Development tools

Command runners

make

just - A command runner and partial replacement for make

Linters

ESLint

deno_lint - Blazing fast linter for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust
RSLint - A (WIP) Extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript linter and Rust crate

Prettier

dprint - Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform written in Rust.

ShellCheck

Shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter

Libraries

Email

mjml

mrml - Blazing fast reimplementation of mjml in Rust (~200x faster)