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
  • Frameworks
    • Audio
    • Build system
    • Command-line argument parsing
    • Compression
    • Computation
    • Cryptography
    • Database
    • Date and time
    • Encoding
    • Game development
    • Games
    • GUI
    • Image processing
    • Mobile
    • Network programming
    • Platform specific
    • Template engine
    • Testing
    • Web programming
  • Resources
  • Tools
    • IDE

Applications written in Rust

• gchp/iota — a simple text editor written in Rust
• uutils/coreutils — cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
• Servo — a prototype web browser engine written in Rust

Games

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

Frameworks

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
• 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 - Simple 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

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

Date and time

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

Encoding

• TyOverby/bincode — a binary encoder/decoder in Rust
• Bencode
  • arjantop/rust-bencode — Bencode implementation in Rust
• Cap'n Proto
  • dwrensha/capnproto-rust —
• 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+
  • JeremyLetang/rgtk — 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
• SFML
  • jeremyletang/rust-sfml — SFML bindings
• Termbox
  • gchp/rustbox — a Rust implementation of termbox
• wxWidgets

Image processing

• 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

• Mustache
  • rustache/rustache —

Testing

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

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

Resources

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

Tools

IDE

• Ride —
• RustDT — an Eclipse-based IDE for Rust
• SolidOak —
• Vektah/idea-rust — an IntelliJ-based IDE for Rust