Awesome Rust

Awesome Rust

A curated list of Rust code and resources.

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• Applications
  • Audio and Music
  • Blockchain
  • Database
  • Embedded
  • Emulators
  • File manager
  • Finance
  • Games
  • Graphics
  • Image processing
  • Industrial automation
  • Message Queue
  • MLOps
  • 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
  • Workflow Automation
• Development tools
  • Build system
  • Debugging
  • Deployment
  • Embedded
  • FFI
  • Formatters
  • IDEs
  • Profiling
  • Services
  • Static analysis
  • Testing
  • Transpiling
  • Tunnel
• Libraries
  • Artificial Intelligence
    • Genetic algorithms
    • Google Gemini
    • Machine learning
    • OpenAI
    • Tooling
  • 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
  • Licensing
  • Logging
  • Macro
  • Markup language
  • Mobile
  • Network programming
  • Parsing
  • Peripherals
  • Platform specific
  • Reverse engineering
  • Scripting
  • Simulation
  • Social networks
  • System
  • Task scheduling
  • Template engine
  • Text processing
  • Text search
  • Unsafe
  • Video
  • Virtualization
  • Web programming
• Registries
• Resources
• License

Applications

• ad-si/Woxi [woxi] - An interpreter for the Wolfram Language powered by Rust.
• alacritty - A cross-platform, GPU enhanced terminal emulator
• alexandrosnt/Reach - Cross-platform SSH client for desktop and Android with SFTP, port forwarding, RDP, VNC and database tools, built with Tauri
• 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
• 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.
• Aster-Privacy/Aster-Mail - Private, end-to-end encrypted email with post-quantum protection, PGP, aliases, and custom domains. Desktop app built with Tauri.
• 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
• datavzrd/datavzrd [datavzrd] - Create interactive HTML reports from CSV, TSV, JSON or Parquet tables with a simple YAML configuration
• DBX - A lightweight, open-source database management tool built with Tauri, supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, and more.
• 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.
• Edit - A simple editor for simple needs.
• fcsonline/drill - A HTTP load testing application inspired by Ansible syntax
• fend - Arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator
• Fractalide - Simple microservices
• GCWing/BitFun - A cross-platform desktop AI agent with a Rust runtime that works in real repositories and can drive the browser, terminal, and desktop applications
• giga-grabber - A very fast and relatively stable Mega downloader
• 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.
• Graphicle-AI/graphicle - A Rust port of Graphify that adds project memory: code graph, docs, decisions and past agent sessions for coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, any MCP client) in one local binary with a single SQLite file
• habitat - A tool created by Chef to build, deploy, and manage applications.
• HaseebKhalid1507/SynapsCLI [synaps] - A terminal-native AI agent runtime with a ratatui TUI, parallel subagents, MCP servers, and plugins in any language
• 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.
• LWE - Linux desktop app for browsing, managing, and applying Wallpaper Engine content, built with Rust and Tauri.
• 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
• 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
• mmalmi/nostr-vpn [nvpn] - Tailscale-style private mesh VPN built on Nostr identities and a FIPS-backed data plane. Features native cross-platform apps (macOS, Linux, Windows, Mobile) and a CLI/daemon.
• newdee/magpie - Local-first Spotlight-style launcher that searches your GitHub stars, local files, images, and videos semantically, fully on-device.
• nicohman/eidolon - A steam and drm-free game registry and launcher for linux and macosx
• openma-ai/Martty - A Rust/ratatui terminal client for DeepSeek Harness and other ACP-compatible coding agents.
• OxideTerm - A GPU-rendered SSH client and terminal app for Windows, macOS, and Linux, built with Rust and GPUI. Supports local shells, SSH, Mosh, Telnet, serial connections, RDP and VNC. Includes SFTP, port forwarding, a built-in remote editor and an optional AI assistant. The interface is available in 11 languages.
• pelazas/p2pmux [p2pmux] - Peer-to-peer terminal multiplexer for macOS and Linux where multiple users and machines join the same session; every pane is a real shell on the machine of whoever opened it
• Pijul - A patch-based distributed version control system
• provrb/OBDium - A cross-platform Tauri-based application for everything vehicle diagnostics. Connect your vehicle over an ELM327 adapter and read trouble codes, live OBD-II data, I/M readiness tests, and more!
• 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.).
• runmat-org/runmat [runmat] - A runtime for MATLAB-syntax numerical programs, with GPU acceleration through wgpu.
• 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.
• s00d/switchshuttle - Cross-platform system tray app for organizing and running predefined terminal commands with global hotkeys, nested menus, and JSON-backed configuration (Tauri + Vue).
• Saga Reader - A Blazing-Fast and Extremely-Lightweight Internet Reader driven by AI.Supports fetching of search engine information and RSS.
• scarletkc/Hatoba - Desktop SSH client built with Tauri and russh, with an AI assistant beside each terminal and end-to-end encrypted sync through your own Cloudflare account
• 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
• temps - A self-hosted PaaS that replaces Vercel, analytics, error tracking, and uptime monitoring with a single Rust binary
• terraphim/terraphim-ai [terraphim-grep] - Local-first knowledge-graph search engine and privacy-preserving AI assistant: deterministic Aho-Corasick retrieval over role-based thesauri, native MCP server, agent session memory
• 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
• tunnetio/Tunnet - Private mesh networking with public tunnels, identity-based SSH, and P2P file transfer
• Tura-AI/tura - A local coding agent for terminal, desktop GUI, and command-line workflows, with persistent task state and evidence-backed verification.
• Typst - A markup-based typesetting system
• unxsist/jet-pilot - An open-source Kubernetes desktop client built with Tauri, with multi-cluster views, a resource graph, structured logs and a built-in kubectl terminal
• 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
• 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
• Zephyr - A modern, lightweight, and secure Mihomo (Clash Meta) GUI client built with Tauri.

Audio and Music

• AreevAI/flowcat - Native-Rust runtime for real-time voice AI agents (phone + WebRTC), self-hosted single binary, pipecat-compatible
• 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.
• LargeModGames/spotatui [spotatui] - A Spotify terminal client with native streaming, synced lyrics, and real-time audio visualization
• 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.
• 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!
• PodFetch - A self-hosted podcast manager that automatically downloads new episodes, with a web UI for listening and a GPodder-compatible sync API for mobile apps like AntennaPod.
• Polaris - A music streaming application.
• rusty-amp - A complete guitar amp and pedalboard rig with external plugins support that runs right in your terminal.
• 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
• tsirysndr/music-player - Music player with Rockbox-powered audio playback, multiple interfaces, and streaming support
• tunein-cli - Browse and listen to thousands of radio stations across the globe right from your terminal
• 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.
• ZacharyL2/KeyEcho - Desktop app that plays recorded mechanical keyboard sounds as you type, built with Tauri

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.
• electrumrs - An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server.
• equilibriumco/beerus - Beerus is a trustless StarkNet Light Client, ⚡blazing fast ⚡
• 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.
• Hyperlane - Framework for permissionless, modular interoperability. The offchain clients are written in Rust, as well as the smart contracts for Solana VM and CosmWasm.
• HyperSync [hypersync-client] - Client for Envio's HyperSync, a blockchain data API that returns filtered blocks, transactions and logs as an alternative to JSON-RPC.
• 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
• linera-io/linera-protocol - A decentralized blockchain infrastructure designed for highly scalable, low-latency Web3 applications
• 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
• 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

• aimdb-dev/aimdb [aimdb-core] - Data ingestion layer for distributed systems with typed contracts, safe schema evolution and one place to see and manage every node, from microcontroller to cloud.
• apecloud/ape-dts - Data Transfer Suite. Provides data replication between MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, ClickHouse, and more.
• Atomic-Server [atomic-server] - NoSQL graph database with realtime updates, dynamic indexing and easy-to-use GUI for CMS purposes.
• ayarotsky/redis-shield - A Redis module that implements the token-bucket algorithm as a native command for high-performance rate limiting
• CozoDB - A transactional, relational database that uses Datalog and focuses on graph data and algorithms. Time-travel-capable, and fast!
• Curvine - Curvine is a high-performance, concurrent distributed cache system written in Rust, designed for low-latency and high-throughput workloads in AI,Bigdata etc.
• darkbird [darkbird] - HighConcurrency, RealTime, InMemory storage inspired by erlang mnesia
• Databend - A Modern Real-Time Data Processing & Analytics DBMS with Cloud-Native Architecture
• DB3 Network - DB3 is a community-driven blockchain layer2 decentralized database network
• dsplce-co/supabase-plus [supabase-plus] - A batteries-included command-line utility that extends the official Supabase CLI
• erikgrinaker/toydb - Distributed SQL database, written as a learning project.
• Garage [garage] - S3-compatible distributed object storage service designed for self-hosting at a small-to-medium scale.
• GlueSQL - Rust library for SQL databases that includes a parser (sqlparser-rs), an execution layer, and a variety of storage options, both persistent and non-persistent, all in one package.
• Goldziher/scythe - Polyglot SQL compiler and linter that generates type-safe code from SQL with schema-aware linting.
• GreptimeDB - An open-source, cloud-native, distributed time-series database with PromQL/SQL/Python supported.
• HasteHealth/HasteHealth - High-performance FHIR R4 clinical data repository (healthcare data server) built on Postgres
• HeliosDatabase/HeliosDB-Nano [heliosdb-nano] - Embedded database with PostgreSQL and MySQL wire protocols, git-like branching, time-travel queries and HNSW vector search
• HelixDB - A powerful, graph-vector database for intelligent data storage for RAG and AI
• Hiqlite - highly-available, embeddable, raft-based SQLite + cache
• hydra-db/hydradb - Object-store-native distributed graph database with OpenCypher queries, GraphBLAS traversal, and Neo4j-compatible Bolt connectivity.
• indradb - Graph database
• KiteSQL - SQL as a Function for Rust
• kividbio/kividb - Redis-compatible in-memory database with built-in full-text and vector search
• lancedb [vectordb] - A serverless, low-latency vector database for AI applications
• Lucid - High performance and distributed KV store accessible through a HTTP API.
• Materialize - Streaming SQL database powered by Timely Dataflow :heavy_dollar_sign:
• microsoft/pg_durable - Durable execution inside PostgreSQL. Long-running, fault-tolerant SQL functions with automatic checkpointing, crash recovery, and parallel execution. Zero infrastructure - runs as a PostgreSQL extension built with pgrx and Rust.
• native_db [native_db] - Drop-in, embedded database for multi-platform apps (server, desktop, mobile). Sync Rust types effortlessly
• Neon - Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.
• NoKV-Lab/NoKV - AI-native distributed filesystem.
• noria [noria] - Dynamically changing, partially-stateful data-flow for web application backends
• oxigraph/oxigraph [oxigraph] - graph database implementing the SPARQL standard
• ParadeDB - ParadeDB is an Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres, designed for real-time search and analytics.
• ParityDB - Fast and reliable database, optimised for read operation
• PgCache/pgcache - A wire-compatible PostgreSQL caching proxy for repeated queries, kept fresh from the logical replication stream.
• pgdogdev/pgdog - A fast proxy for scaling PostgreSQL with connection pooling, load balancing, and sharding.
• Picodata [picodata-plugin] - Distributed PostgreSQL-compatible database with a plugin model in Rust; Redis and Cassandra wire compatibility via commercial plugins.
• PRQL [prqlc] - A modern language for transforming data, compiling to readable SQL.
• PumpkinDB - an event sourcing database engine
• Qdrant - An open source vector similarity search engine with extended filtering support
• Qrlew/qrlew [qrlew] - The SQL-to-SQL Differential Privacy layer
• RisingWaveLabs/RisingWave - the next-generation streaming database in the cloud
• RustFS [RustFS] - 🚀 RustFS is an open-source,S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
• ruvnet/ruvector [ruvector-core] - A self-learning vector database and cognitive container that runs LLMs locally and scales horizontally.
• RyanCodrai/turbovec [turbovec] - A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with SIMD-accelerated search and Python bindings
• sabiql [sabiql] - Fast, driverless, Vim-first database TUI with safe editing and ER diagrams.
• samyama-ai/samyama-graph - Rust-native graph-vector database for GraphRAG, knowledge graphs, vector search, and graph analytics.
• seppo0010/rsedis - A Redis reimplementation.
• Skytable - A multi-model NoSQL database
• sled - A (beta) modern embedded database
• SQLSync - Multiplayer offline-first SQLite
• SurrealDB - A scalable, distributed, document-graph database
• tabularis - A lightweight, developer-focused database management tool, built with Tauri and React.
• teaql/teaql-rs [teaql-core] - A model-driven runtime with typed queries, governed mutations, and SQL providers
• TerminusDB - open source graph database and document store
• tikv - A distributed KV database in Rust
• tokio-rs/toasty [toasty] - A cozy, easy ORM for Rust supporting SQL (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and DynamoDB with derive macros, type-safe queries, and database-specific feature exposure.
• Tonbo - Tonbo is an embedded persistent database built on Apache Arrow & Parquet
• TrailBase - A fast, lightweight, single-file FireBase alternative with type-safe APIs, built-in V8 JS/ES6/TS engine, auth and admin dashboard
• tsink - Embedded time-series database for Rust
• Turso - Turso Database is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite.
• USearch - Similarity Search Engine for Vectors and Strings
• valentinus - Next generation vector database built with LMDB bindings
• VelesDB [velesdb-core] - Embeddable, local-first database whose tri-engine fuses vector search, a property graph, and a columnar store behind one query language (VelesQL), in a single binary. Ships an in-core agentic-memory SDK — semantic / episodic / procedural — with cross-session why() recall that traverses the graph to surface linked facts vector search alone misses.
• vorot93/libmdbx-rs [mdbx-sys] - Bindings for MDBX, a "fast, compact, powerful, embedded, transactional key-value database, with permissive license". This is a fork of mozilla/lmdb-rs with patches to make it work with libmdbx.
• whispem/minikv - Distributed, multi-tenant key-value and object store with Raft consensus, WAL durability, time-series API, vector search, and S3-compatible endpoints. Production-oriented with Helm chart, Grafana dashboards, and Python SDK.
• WooriDB - General purpose time serial database inspired by Crux and Datomic.
• xerj-org/xerj - Search engine for AI agents in one binary: BM25, vector and hybrid search over an Elasticsearch-compatible API, with a built-in MCP server

Embedded

• embassy-rs/embassy [embassy] - Next-generation async/await framework for embedded Rust with HALs for STM32, nRF, RP, ESP32, and more. Features embassy-time, embassy-net, embassy-usb, and low-power support.
• infinition/waveshare-watch-rs - 100% Rust no_std smartwatch firmware for Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06. Features QSPI 80 MHz DMA display, Embassy async runtime, event-driven power management with Always-On Display.
• rmk - A feature-rich keyboard firmware.
• rtic-rs/rtic [rtic] - Real-Time Interrupt-driven Concurrency framework for building embedded real-time systems.
• 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'.

• CHIP-8
  • ColinEberhardt/wasm-rust-chip8 - A WebAssembly CHIP-8 emulator.
  • starrhorne/chip8-rust - chip8 emulator
• Commodore 64
  • kondrak/rust64 - Commodore 64 emulator
• Flash Player
  • Ruffle - Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator. Ruffle targets both the desktop and the web using WebAssembly.
• Gameboy
  • Gekkio/mooneye-gb - A Game Boy research project and emulator
  • joamag/boytacean - GameBoy Color emulator that runs on the Web using WebAssembly.
  • mohanson/gameboy - Full featured Cross-platform GameBoy emulator. Forever boys!.
  • mvdnes/rboy - A Gameboy Emulator
• Gameboy Advance
  • michelhe/rustboyadvance-ng - RustboyAdvance-ng is a Gameboy Advance emulator with desktop, android and WebAssembly support.
• GameMaker
  • OpenGMK - OpenGMK is a modern rewrite of the proprietary GameMaker Classic engines, providing a full sourceport of the runner, a decompiler, a TASing framework, and libraries for working with gamedata yourself.
• IBM PC
  • MartyPC - An IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust.
• Intel 8080 CPU
  • mohanson/i8080 - Intel 8080 CPU emulator
• iOS
  • touchHLE - High-level emulator for iPhone OS apps
• iPod
  • clicky - A clickwheel iPod emulator (WIP)
• NES
  • koute/pinky - A NES emulator
  • pcwalton/sprocketnes - A NES emulator
• Nintendo 64
  • gopher64 - N64 emulator written in Rust
• Nintendo DS
  • dust - A Nintendo DS emulator
• PlayStation 4
  • Obliteration - Experimental PS4 emulator for Windows, macOS and Linux
• Shockwave Player
  • DirPlayer - A web-compatible Shockwave Player emulator written in Rust
• ZX Spectrum
  • rustzx/rustzx -

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
• elio-fm/elio [elio] - Batteries-included terminal file manager with rich previews, bulk actions, and trash support.
• 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.

• Ashutosh0x/rust-finance - AI trading terminal with multi-exchange ingestion, execution, risk models, and TUI dashboard.
• klirr [klirr] - Zero-maintenance and smart FOSS generating beautiful invoices for services and expenses.
• longbridge/longbridge-terminal - AI-native CLI for Longbridge Securities: real-time quotes, portfolio, trading for HK/US/A-share/SG.
• makeev/alphai-tui [alphai-tui] - Terminal stock dashboard with keyless quotes and charts, news sentiment, SEC Form 4 insider trades and earnings reads.
• nautechsystems/nautilus_trader - A high-performance, production-grade algorithmic trading platform written in Rust and Python.
• rsalianto/tradoor - Crypto trading terminal in the browser: candlestick, TPO and footprint charts, DOM, liquidations and a trading journal, drawn by a Rust engine in WebAssembly
• tackler [tackler] - Fast, reliable bookkeeping engine with native GIT SCM support for plain text accounting
• tarkah/tickrs - Realtime ticker data in your terminal
• wealthfolio/wealthfolio - A beautiful, private, local-first personal finance tracker: investments, net worth, spending, and simulations.

Games

See also Games Made With Piston.

• 1homsi/thehumanbox - A browser civilization sandbox where tribes invent their own languages, cultures and beliefs, compiled to WebAssembly
• buxx/OpenCombat - A realtime 2nd world war tactical game
• chess-tui - A Chess TUI implementation ♟️
• citybound - The city sim you deserve
• cristicbz/rust-doom - A renderer for Doom, may progress to being a playable game
• doukutsu-rs - Reimplementation of Cave Story engine with some enhancements.
• garkimasera/gaia-maker - Planet and terraforming simulation game
• garkimasera/rusted-ruins - Extensible open world rogue like game with pixel art
• GitType - A CLI code-typing game that turns your source code into typing challenges
• gorilla-devs/ferium - Ferium is a fast and feature rich CLI program for downloading and updating Minecraft mods from Modrinth, CurseForge, and GitHub Releases, and modpacks from Modrinth and CurseForge
• HactarCE/Hyperspeedcube - A modern, beginner-friendly 3D and 4D Rubik's cube simulator with customizable mouse and keyboard controls and advanced features for speedsolving
• lifthrasiir/angolmois-rust - A minimalistic music video game which supports the BMS format
• louis-e/arnis - Generate Minecraft Java/Bedrock worlds from real-world geography using OpenStreetMap and elevation data
• maras-archive/rsnake - Snake.
• mcthesw/game-save-manager - A user-friendly tool for managing game saves
• mtkennerly/ludusavi - Backup tool for PC game saves
• ozkriff/zemeroth - A small 2D turn-based hexagonal strategy game
• RafaelGoulartB/Heronite - A native game launcher for Linux and Windows built with GPUI: Steam, Epic Games, GOG, Amazon Games, emulators and more in one library, with play time stats and a console mode
• rhex - hexagonal ascii roguelike
• rsaarelm/magog - A roguelike game.
• SoftbearStudios/mk48 - Mk48.io is an online multiplayer naval combat game
• Strophox/tetro-tui [tetro-tui] - A cross-platform terminal game where tetrominos fall and stack.
• swatteau/sokoban-rs - A Sokoban implementation
• thetawavegame/thetawave-legacy - A space shooter game that strives to be an entry point for new game developers to make their first contributions.
• Thinkofname/rust-quake - Quake map renderer.
• topheman/snake-pipe-rust - A snake game in the terminal based on stdin/stdout (+tcp and unix domain sockets)
• ttyperacer/terminal-typeracer - Single player typing test game written for the terminal
• Veloren - An open world, open source multiplayer voxel RPG game currently in alpha development
• zipxing/rust_pixel [rust_pixel] - A 2D pixel art game engine & rapid prototyping tools, supporting both text and graphical rendering modes.
• Zone of Control - A turn-based hexagonal strategy game

Graphics

• dps/rust-raytracer - An implementation of a very simple raytracer based on Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley.
• flxzt/rnote - Sketch and take handwritten notes.
• ivanceras/svgbob - converts ASCII diagrams into SVG graphics
• jangtrinh/design-os-studio - GPU-accelerated interface design studio that opens and saves .fig files locally and exposes the open file to coding agents through an MCP server.
• KaminariOS/rustracer - A PBR glTF 2.0 renderer based on Vulkan ray-tracing.
• Limeth/euclider - A real-time 4D CPU ray tracer
• linebender/resvg - An SVG rendering library.
• monfa-red/lini [lini] - A small language for every kind of figure — diagrams, charts, sequences, schematics, technical drawings — compiled from plain text to themeable SVG
• museslabs/phonto - GPU-accelerated video wallpaper program for Wayland and macOS, written in Rust.
• rodrigorc/papercraft - A tool to unwrap 3D models and create them in paper with scissors and glue.
• rustq/vue-skia - Skia based 2d graphics vue rendering library. It is based on Rust to implement software rasterization to perform rendering.
• storytold/artcraft - An AI-powered IDE and tangible computing surface for molding scenes, videos, and images like clay.
• storytold/cadcraft - An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Autodesk AutoCAD, built in pure Rust.
• turnage/valora - A library for generative fine art
• Twinklebear/tray_rust - A ray tracer
• wahn/rs_pbrt - Implements a counterpart to the PBRT book's (3rd edition) C++ code.

Image processing

• Darkly - Entropic editor for digital artists and painters.
• Graphite - Vector-based graphics editor.
• heydeer/pngdeer - A lossy PNG compressor with automatic perceptual quality selection, available as a Rust CLI and WebAssembly app.
• Hugo-Dz/spritefusion-sprite-normals - A CLI and WebAssembly tool that generates normal maps from pixel art sprites and animations (MIT).
• Imager - Automated image optimization.
• oxipng [oxipng] - Multithreaded PNG optimizer written in Rust.
• skymanbp/autoshade - AI-assisted RAW photo developer: a vision model proposes an edit recipe, a deterministic engine renders it as a Lightroom-compatible XMP sidecar.
• sorairolake/favico [favico] - An utility for creating favicons
• Sprite Fusion Pixel Snapper - A CLI and WebAssembly tool that cleans up AI-generated pixel art to get pixel-perfect pixel art sprites (MIT).
• storytold/lightcraft - An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom in pure Rust.
• storytold/vectorcraft - An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Illustrator, built in pure Rust.
• visioncortex/vtracer [vtracer] - A raster to vector graphics converter (jpg/png to svg).

Industrial automation

• cerulion-inc/cerulion [cerulion_cli] - Robot runtime with zero-copy shared memory and a graph-aware scheduler. Records a run and re-executes supported native recordings against new code, with an exit code for CI.
• dora-rs/dora [dora-cli] - A fast and simple dataflow-oriented framework for building robotic and multi-AI applications, with Python, Rust, and C/C++ APIs
• locka99/opcua - A OPC UA library.
• slowtec/tokio-modbus - A tokio-based modbus library.

Message Queue

• lonewolf-io/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

• api7/aisix - Open-source AI gateway for LLMs and AI agents: one OpenAI-compatible API plus a native Anthropic Messages API in front of OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and other OpenAI-compatible endpoints, with MCP and A2A gateways, semantic routing, guardrails, and semantic caching.
• cocoindex - ETL framework to build fresh context for AI agents, with incremental processing
• respanai/respan-gateway [respan-gateway] - LLM gateway that lets OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini SDKs call any model by translating between their APIs (chat, tools, media, realtime voice), with routing, fallback, an MCP tool loop and aggregator, and a web UI.
• TensorZero - data & learning flywheel for LLMs that unifies inference, observability, optimization, and experimentation
• Uteke - Offline-first semantic memory engine for AI agents. Single binary, zero dependencies, MCP-native.
• vayungodara/cliproxy-rs [cliproxy] - Local proxy that puts DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, OpenRouter and other OpenAI-compatible providers behind one endpoint for Codex CLI and Claude Code, translating between the Responses, Chat Completions and Anthropic Messages APIs, with failover across keys. A Rust port of CLIProxyAPI.

Observability

• avito-tech/bioyino - A high-performance scalable StatsD compatible server.
• esrlabs/chipmunk - Native egui desktop application for analyzing massive log files and streams. Features a WebAssembly plugin system and automotive formats support.
• madesroches/micromegas [micromegas] - Observability backend for logs, metrics and traces, with low-overhead Rust instrumentation. Stores telemetry as Parquet on object storage and queries it with SQL.
• 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.
• parseablehq/parseable - An AI-native unified observability platform for collecting and analyzing logs, metrics, traces and events.
• Quickwit-oss/quickwit - Cloud-native and highly cost-efficient search engine for log management.
• rustrak/rustrak - Ultra-lightweight error tracking server compatible with Sentry SDKs.
• 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 - 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.
• NON-OS/nonos-micro-kernel - A capability-based, RAM-resident microkernel where every program is a signed capsule that must prove itself before the kernel will run it, and drivers run in userspace.
• 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.
• pkgforge/soar [soar-cli] - A distro-independent package ma