Awesome Rust

A curated list of Rust code and resources, inspired by other awesome lists. The goal is to have only projects that are mostly stable and useful to users.

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Awesome Rust

Applications written in Rust

azerupi/mdBook — a command line utility to create books from markdown files
bluejekyll/trust-dns — a DNS-server
BurntSushi/xsv — a fast CSV command line tool (slicing, indexing, selecting, searching, sampling, etc.)
Emulators
- simias/rustation — a Playstation emulator
gchp/iota — a simple text editor
dlecan/generic-dns-update — a tool to update DNS zonefiles with your IP address
Fractalide — Flow-based Programming environment.
imjacobclark/Herd — an experimental HTTP load testing application
jedisct1/flowgger — a fast, simple and lightweight data collector
kbknapp/docli — a command line utility for managing DigitalOcean infrastructure
MaidSafe — a decentralized platform.
qmx/limonite — static blog/website generator
seppo0010/rsedis — a Redis reimplementation
Servo — a prototype web browser engine
System tools
- Aaronepower/tokei — counts the lines of code
- buster/rrun — a command launcher for Linux, similar to gmrun
- ogham/exa — a replacement for 'ls' written in Rust
- uutils/coreutils — a cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Virtualization
- tailhook/vagga — a containerization tool without daemons

Games

Games Made With Piston
lifthrasiir/angolmois-rust — a minimalistic music video game which supports the BMS format
swatteau/sokoban-rs — a Sokoban implementation
Zone of Control — a turn-based hexagonal strategy game
rhex — hexagonal ascii roguelike

Operating systems

A comparison of operating systems written in Rust

redox-os/redox —
thepowersgang/rust_os —

Development tools

Clippy — Rust lints
clog-tool/clog-cli — generates a changelog from git metadata (conventional changelog)
dan-t/rusty-tags — create ctags/etags for a cargo project and all of its dependencies
frewsxcv/crate-deps — generates images of dependency graphs for crates hosted on crates.io
Multirust — manage multiple Rust installations
- brson/multirust — the original multirust as shell scripts
- Diggsey/multirust-rs — multirust reimplementation in Rust
Racer — code completion for Rust
rustfmt — a Rust code formatter

Debugging

GDB
- rust-gdb
LLDB
- lldb_batchmode.py — allows to use LLDB in a way similar to GDB's batch mode.

Embedded

Cross compiling
- japaric/rust-cross — everything you need to know about cross compiling Rust programs
Raspberry Pi
- Ogeon/rust-on-raspberry-pi — instructions for how to cross compile Rust projects for the Raspberry Pi .

FFI

See also Foreign Function Interface, Rust Inside Other Languages and The Rust FFI Omnibus (a collection of examples of using code written in Rust from other languages).

C
- crabtw/rust-bindgen — a Rust bindings generator
- Sean1708/rusty-cheddar — generates C header files from Rust source files
Java
- drrb/java-rust-example — use Rust from Java
Node.js
- rustbridge/neon — use Rust from Node.js
Objective-C
- SSheldon/rust-objc — Objective-C Runtime bindings and wrapper for Rust
Python
- dgrunwald/rust-cpython — Python bindings
- lukemetz/rustpy — Python bindings

IDEs

intellij-rust — an IntelliJ-based IDE for Rust
PistonDevelopers/VisualRust — a Visual Studio extension for Rust
Ride —
RustDT — an Eclipse-based IDE for Rust
SolidOak — a simple IDE for Rust, based on GTK+ and Neovim
Visual Studio Code

Profiling

ellisonch/rust-stopwatch — a stopwatch library
mrhooray/torch — generates FlameGraphs based on DWARF Debug Info

Testing

BurntSushi/quickcheck — a Rust implementation of QuickCheck
farcaller/shiny — a fancy syntax similar to Ruby's Rspec or Objective-C' kiwi
frewsxcv/afl.rs — a Rust fuzzer, using AFL

Libraries

Astronomy

saurvs/astro-rust — astronomy for Rust

Asynchronous

zonyitoo/coio-rs — a coroutine I/O library with a working-stealing scheduler

Audio

GuillaumeGomez/rust-fmod — FMOD bindings
RustAudio/rust-portaudio — PortAudio bindings
jhasse/ears — a simple library to play Sounds and Musics, on top of OpenAL and libsndfile
jpernst/openal-rs — OpenAL 1.1 bindings
RustAudio
musitdev/portmidi-rs — PortMidi bindings

Authentication

keats/rust-jwt — JSON Web Token lib in rust

Bioinformatics

Rust-Bio — bioinformatics libraries in Rust.

Build system

Cargo — the Rust package manager
- rsolomo/cargo-check — a wrapper around cargo rustc -- -Zno-trans which can be helpful for running a faster compile if you only need correctness checks
- kbknapp/cargo-count — lists source code counts and details about cargo projects, including unsafe statistics
- pwoolcoc/cargo-do — run multiple cargo commands in a row
- maxsnew/cargo-dot — generate graphs of a Cargo project's dependencies
- killercup/cargo-edit — allows you to add and list dependencies by reading/writing to your Cargo.toml file from the command line
- kbknapp/cargo-graph — updated fork of cargo-dot with additional features
- kbknapp/cargo-outdated — displays when newer versions of Rust dependencies are available, or out of date
- imp/cargo-multi [cargo-multi] — runs specified cargo command on multiple crates
- DanielKeep/cargo-script — lets people quickly and easily run Rust "scripts" which can make use of Cargo's package ecosystem
- passcod/cargo-watch — utility for cargo to compile projects when sources change
CMake
- SiegeLord/RustCMake — an example project showing usage of CMake with Rust

Concurrency

aturon/crossbeam – Support for parallelism and low-level concurrency in Rust
nikomatsakis/rayon – A data parallelism library for Rust

Cloud

AWS
- rusoto/rusoto —
- thommay/aws-rs —
DigitalOcean
- kbknapp/doapi — DigitalOcean v2 API bindings

Command-line argument parsing

docopt/docopt.rs — a Rust implementation of DocOpt
kbknapp/clap-rs — a simple to use, full featured command-line argument parser

Compression

alexcrichton/bzip2-rs — libbz2 bindings
alexcrichton/flate2-rs — miniz bindings
alexcrichton/tar-rs — tar archive reading/writing in Rust
ende76/brotli-rs — implementation of Brotli compression
JeffBelgum/rust-snappy — snappy bindings
slackito/zip — read and write ZIP archives

Computation

BLAS [blas]
- mikkyang/rust-blas — BLAS bindings
- stainless-steel/blas — BLAS bindings
GMP
- thestinger/rust-gmp — libgmp bindings
GSL
- GuillaumeGomez/rust-GSL — GSL bindings
LAPACK
- stainless-steel/lapack — LAPACK bindings
OpenCL
- arrayfire/arrayfire-rust — Arrayfire bindings
- luqmana/rust-opencl — OpenCL bindings
Scirust
- indigits/scirust — scientific computing library in Rust

Cryptography

[crypto, cryptography]

briansmith/ring — Safe, fast, small crypto using Rust and BoringSSL's cryptography primitives.
briansmith/webpki — Web PKI TLS X.509 certificate validation in Rust.
DaGenix/rust-crypto — cryptographic algorithms in Rust
dnaq/sodiumoxide — libsodium bindings
klutzy/suruga — a Rust implementation of TLS 1.2
libOctavo/octavo — Modular hash and crypto library in Rust
seb-m/common.rs — Common Rust crypto utilities
sfackler/rust-openssl — OpenSSL bindings

Database

[database]

sfackler/r2d2 — generic connection pool
NoSQL [nosql]
- Cassandra [cassandra, cql]
  - tupshin/cassandra-rust — Cassandra bindings
- CouchDB [couchdb]
  - couchdb-rs/couchdb [couchdb] — a Rust client for the CouchDB REST API
- Elasticsearch [elasticsearch]
  - benashford/rs-es [rs-es] — a Rust client for the Elastic REST API
- etcd
  - jimmycuadra/rust-etcd [etcd] — A client library for CoreOS's etcd.
- ForestDB
  - vhbit/sherwood — ForestDB bindings
- LMDB [lmdb]
  - vhbit/lmdb-rs [lmdb-rs] — LMDB bindings
- MongoDB [mongodb]
  - mongodb-labs/mongo-rust-driver-prototype [mongodb] — MongoDB bindings
- Neo4j [cypher, neo4j]
- Redis [redis]
  - mitsuhiko/redis-rs — Redis library in Rust
SQL [sql]
- MySql [mysql]
  - blackbeam/rust-mysql-simple [mysql] — a native MySql client
ORM [orm]
- deuterium-orm/deuterium-orm — an SQL query builder for Rust
- ivanceras/rustorm — an ORM for Rust
- phonkee/treasure — an ORM for Rust
- sgrif/diesel — an ORM and Query builder for Rust
PostgreSql [postgres, postgresql]
- sfackler/rust-postgres [postgres] — a native PostgreSQL client
Sqlite [sqlite]
- dckc/rust-sqlite3 — Sqlite3 bindings
- jgallagher/rusqlite — Sqlite3 bindings
- linuxfood/rustsqlite — Sqlite3 bindings

Data structures

bluss/rust-itertools —
fizyk20/generic-array – a hack to allow for arrays sized by typenums
Nemo157/roaring-rs – Roaring Bitmaps in Rust
reem/rust-typemap —
serde-rs/serde — a framework to generically serialize Rust data structures

Date and time

[date, time]

lifthrasiir/rust-chrono —
rust-lang-deprecated/time —

Distributed Systems

Apache Kafka
- spicavigo/kafka-rust —
Beanstalkd
- schickling/rust-beanstalkd — Beanstalkd bindings
HDFS
- hyunsik/hdfs-rs — libhdfs bindings

Email

[email]

gsquire/sendgrid-rs — unofficial Rust library for SendGrid API
lettre/lettre — an SMTP-library for Rust

Encoding

[encoding]

ASN.1
- alex/rust-asn1 — a Rust ASN.1 (DER) serializer
Bencode
- arjantop/rust-bencode — Bencode implementation in Rust
Binary
- arcnmx/nue — I/O and binary data encoding for Rust
- TyOverby/bincode — a binary encoder/decoder in Rust
Byte swapping
- BurntSushi/byteorder — Supports big-endian, little-endian and native byte orders
Cap'n Proto
- dwrensha/capnproto-rust —
CBOR
- BurntSushi/rust-cbor — Supports JSON conversion and type-based encoding/decoding
Character Encoding
- lifthrasiir/rust-encoding —
CRC
- mrhooray/crc-rs —
CSV
- BurntSushi/rust-csv —
HTML
- servo/html5ever — High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser
JSON
- serde-rs/json [serde_json] — JSON support for Serde framework
Jsonnet
- Qihoo360/rust-jsonnet —
MsgPack
- mneumann/rust-msgpack —
- 3Hren/msgpack-rust — a pure Rust low/high level MessagePack implementation
ProtocolBuffers
- stepancheg/rust-protobuf —
RON (Rusty Object Notation)
- kvark/ron —
Tnetstring
- erickt/rust-tnetstring —
TOML
- alexcrichton/toml-rs —
XML
- Florob/RustyXML — an XML parser written in Rust
- shepmaster/sxd-document — An XML library in Rust
- shepmaster/sxd-xpath — An XPath library in Rust
- netvl/xml-rs — a streaming XML library
YAML
- chyh1990/yaml-rust — The missing YAML 1.2 implementation for Rust.
- dtolnay/serde-yaml [serde_yaml] — YAML support for Serde framework
- kimhyunkang/libyaml-rust — libyaml bindings

Game development

Allegro
- SiegeLord/RustAllegro — Allegro 5 bindings
Amethyst
- ebkalderon/amethyst — data-oriented game engine
Corange
- lucidscape/corange-rs — Corange bindings
Piston
- Piston —
SDL [sdl]
- AngryLawyer/rust-sdl2 — SDL2 bindings
- brson/rust-sdl — SDL1 bindings
SFML
- jeremyletang/rust-sfml — SFML bindings
Voxlap
- bbodi/rust-voxlap — Voxlap bindings

Geospatial

[geo, gis]

Georust — geospatial tools and libraries written in Rust

GUI

[gui]

PistonDevelopers/conrod — An easy-to-use, immediate-mode, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust
Cocoa
- servo/rust-cocoa
IUP
- dcampbell24/iup-rust — IUP bindings
- Kiss-ui — a simple UI framework built on IUP
GTK+ [gtk]
- gtk-rs/gtk — GTK+ bindings
ncurses [ncurses]
- jeaye/ncurses-rs — ncurses bindings
OpenGL [opengl]
- bjz/gl-rs —
- bjz/glfw-rs —
- tomaka/glium — safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.
- tomaka/glutin — Rust alternative to GLFW
Qt
- cyndis/qmlrs — QtQuick bindings
Termbox
- gchp/rustbox — a Rust implementation of termbox

Image processing

chyh1990/imageproc — An advanced image processing library for Rust.
cybergeek94/img-hash — Perceptual image hashing and comparison for equality and similarity.
PistonDevelopers/image — Basic imaging processing functions and methods for converting to and from image formats

Machine learning

autumnai/leaf — Open Machine Intelligence framework.
maciejkula/rustlearn — Machine learning crate for Rust.

Markup language

CommonMark
- google/pulldown-cmark — CommonMark parser in Rust

Mobile

Android
- tomaka/android-rs-glue — glue between Rust and Android
iOS
- TimNN/cargo-lipo — a cargo lipo subcommand which automatically creates a universal library for use with your iOS application.
- vhbit/ObjCrust — using Rust to create an iOS static library
Pebble
- andars/pebble.rs — a crate that allows Rust to be used to develop Pebble applications.

Network programming

FTP
- mattnenterprise/rust-ftp — an FTP client for Rust
Low level
- libpnet/libpnet — a cross-platform, low level networking
NanoMsg
- thehydroimpulse/nanomsg.rs — nanomsg bindings
NNTP
- mattnenterprise/rust-nntp — an NNTP client for Rust
POP3
- mattnenterprise/rust-pop3 — a POP3 client for Rust
SSH
- alexcrichton/ssh2-rs — libssh2 bindings
Stomp
- zslayton/stomp-rs — a STOMP 1.2 client implementation in Rust
uTP
- meqif/rust-utp — a uTP (Micro Transport Protocol) library for Rust.
ZeroMQ
- erickt/rust-zmq — ZeroMQ bindings

Parser

Geal/nom — parser combinator library
ivanceras/inquerest — an URL parameter parser for rest filter inquiry
kevinmehall/rust-peg — Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) parser generator
m4rw3r/chomp – A fast monadic-style parser combinator
Marwes/combine — parser combinator library
ptal/oak — a typed PEG parser generator (compiler plugin)
rustless/queryst — a query string parsing library for Rust inspired by https://github.com/ljharb/qs

Platform specific

Linux
- hannobraun/inotify-rs — inotify bindings
Unix-like
- carllerche/nix-rust — Unix-like API bindings
- zargony/rust-fuse — FUSE bindings
Windows
- retep998/winapi-rs — Windows API bindings

Template engine

Handlebars
- sunng87/handlebars-rust — Handlebars template engine with inheritance, custom helper support.
HTML
- lfairy/maud — compile-time HTML templates
- Stebalien/horrorshow-rs — compile-time HTML templates
Mustache
- rustache/rustache —
tailhook/marafet — Compiler for Jade-like template language to cito.js-based virtual dom

Text processing

BurntSushi/suffix — Linear time suffix array construction (with Unicode support)
BurntSushi/tabwriter — Elastic tab stops (i.e., text column alignment)
pwoolcoc/ngrams — Construct n-grams from arbitrary iterators
rust-lang-nursery/regex — Regular expressions (RE2 style)