Awesome Rust

A curated list of awesome Rust code and resources. Inspired by the other awesome lists.

Only projects that are stable and useful to users are added. Projects that do not compile with Rust-nightly for a longer time are removed.

• Awesome Rust
  • Applications written in Rust
    • Games
  • Libraries
    • Audio
    • Build system
    • Command-line argument parsing
    • Compression
    • Computation
    • Cryptography
    • Database
    • Date structures
    • Date and time
    • Encoding
    • Game development
    • Games
    • GUI
    • Image processing
    • Mobile
    • Network programming
    • Platform specific
    • Template engine
    • Testing
    • Text processing
    • Web programming
  • Resources
  • Tools
    • IDEs

Applications written in Rust

• BurntSushi/xsv — A fast CSV command line tool (slicing, indexing, selecting, searching, sampling, etc.)
• gchp/iota — a simple text editor written in Rust
• Servo — a prototype web browser engine written in Rust
• thoughtram/clog — a conventional changelog port (generates a changelog from git metadata)
• uutils/coreutils — cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
• buster/rrun - command launcher for Linux, similar to gmrun

Games

• Coeuvre/rust-2048
• lifthrasiir/angolmois-rust — a minimalistic music video game which supports the BMS format

Libraries

Audio

• bjz/openal-rs — OpenAL 1.1 bindings
• JeremyLetang/ears — a simple library to play Sounds and Musics, on top of OpenAL and libsndfile
• JeremyLetang/rust-portaudio — PortAudio bindings
• RustAudio
• samdoshi/portmidi-rs — PortMidi bindings

Build system

• Cargo — the Rust package manager
• CMake
  • SiegeLord/RustCMake — an example project showing usage of CMake with Rust

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
• lifthrasiir/rust-zip — read and write ZIP archives

Computation

• luqmana/rust-opencl — OpenCL bindings
• thestinger/rust-gmp — libgmp bindings
• GuillaumeGomez/rust-GSL - GSL bindings
• stainless-steel/blas - BLAS
• stainless-steel/lapack - BLAS

Cryptography

• DaGenix/rust-crypto — cryptographic algorithms in Rust
• dnaq/sodiumoxide — libsodium bindings
• klutzy/suruga — a Rust implementation of TLS 1.2
• seb-m/common.rs — Common Rust crypto utilities
• sfackler/rust-openssl — OpenSSL bindings

Database

• NoSQL
  • LMDB
    • vhbit/lmdb-rs — LMDB bindings
  • Redis
    • mitsuhiko/redis-rs — Redis library in Rust
• SQL
  • MySql
    • blackbeam/rust-mysql-simple — a native MySql client
  • PostgreSql
    • sfackler/rust-postgres — a native PostgreSQL client
  • Sqlite
    • dckc/rust-sqlite3 — Sqlite3 bindings
    • jgallagher/rusqlite — Sqlite3 bindings
    • linuxfood/rustsqlite — Sqlite3 bindings

Date and time

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

Data structures

• bluss/rust-itertools —
• reem/rust-typemap —

Encoding

• TyOverby/bincode — a binary encoder/decoder in Rust
• Bencode
  • arjantop/rust-bencode — Bencode implementation 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 —
• CSV
  • BurntSushi/rust-csv —
• HTML
  • servo/html5ever — High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser
• MsgPck
  • mneumann/rust-msgpack —
• ProtocolBuffers
  • stepancheg/rust-protobuf —
• TOML
  • alexcrichton/toml-rs —
• Tnetstring
  • erickt/rust-tnetstring —
• XML
  • Florob/RustyXML — an XML parser written in Rust
  • netvl/xml-rs — a streaming XML library
• YAML
  • kimhyunkang/libyaml-rust — libyaml bindings

Game development

• bbodi/rust-voxlap — Voxlap bindings
• PistonDevelopers/piston —
• SiegeLord/RustAllegro — Allegro 5 bindings

GUI

• Cocoa
  • mozilla-servo/rust-cocoa
• Gtk+
  • rust-gnome/gtk — Gtk+ bindings
• ncurses
  • jeaye/ncurses-rs —
• OpenGL
  • bjz/gl-rs —
  • bjz/glfw-rs —
  • servo/rust-glut
  • tomaka/glutin — Rust alternative to GLFW
• Qt
  • cyndis/qmlrs — QtQuick bindings
• SDL
  • AngryLawyer/rust-sdl2 — SDL2 bindings
  • brson/rust-sdl — SDL1 bindings
  • PistonDevelopers/conrod — An easy-to-use, immediate-mode, 2D GUI library written entirely in Rust
• SFML
  • jeremyletang/rust-sfml — SFML bindings
• Termbox
  • gchp/rustbox — a Rust implementation of termbox

Image processing

• 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

Mobile

• tomaka/android-rs-glue — glue between Rust and Android
• vhbit/ObjCrust — using Rust to create an iOS static library

Network programming

• Beanstalkd
  • schickling/rust-beanstalkd — Beanstalkd bindings
• FTP
  • mattnenterprise/rust-ftp — An FTP client for Rust
• Low level
  • libpnet/libpnet — Cross-platform, low level networking
• NanoMsg
  • thehydroimpulse/nanomsg.rs — a modern messaging library that is the successor to ZeroMQ
• NNTP
  • mattnenterprise/rust-nntp — A NNTP client for Rust
• POP3
  • mattnenterprise/rust-pop3 — A POP3 client for Rust
• SSH
  • alexcrichton/ssh2-rs — libssh2 bindings
• Stomp
  • zslayton/stomp-rs — STOMP 1.2 client implementation in Rust
• ZeroMQ
  • erickt/rust-zmq — ZeroMQ bindings

Platform specific

• Linux
  • carllerche/nix-rust — Linux API bindings

Template engine

• lfairy/maud — compile-time HTML templates
• Mustache
  • rustache/rustache —
• Stebalien/horrorshow-rs — compile-time HTML templates
• sunng87/handlebars-iron — Handlebars-rust as an Iron web framework middleware.
• sunng87/handlebars-rust — Handlebars template engine with inheritance, custom helper support.

Testing

• BurntSushi/quickcheck — a Rust implementation of QuickCheck
• farcaller/shiny — a fancy syntax similar to Ruby's Rspec or Objective-C' kiwi

Text processing

• BurntSushi/suffix — Linear time suffix array construction (with Unicode support)
• BurntSushi/tabwriter — Elastic tab stops (i.e., text column alignment)
• rust-lang/regex — Regular expressions (RE2 style)

Web programming

See also http://arewewebyet.com/

• Core
  • hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
• Client
  • carllerche/curl-rust — libcurl bindings
  • vhbit/curl-rs — libcurl bindings
• Server
  • Iron — a middleware-based server framework
  • Nickel — inspired by Express
  • Ogeon/rustful — a RESTful web framework for Rust
  • Rustless — a REST-like API micro-framework inspired by Grape and Hyper
  • tiny-http — Low level HTTP server library

Resources

• Rust by Example
• Rust CI — a Travis CI dashboard for Rust projects
• Rust Guidelines

Tools

• crabtw/rust-bindgen — a Rust bindings generator
• dan-t/rusty-tags — create ctags/etags for a cargo project and all of its dependencies
• Manishearth/rust-clippy — a collection of lints that catch newbie mistakes and oversights during the build
• nrc/rustfmt — a Rust code formatter
• phildawes/racer — code completion for Rust

IDEs

• Ride —
• RustDT — an Eclipse-based IDE for Rust
• SolidOak — a simple IDE for Rust, based on Gtk+ and Neovim
• Vektah/idea-rust — an IntelliJ-based IDE for Rust