awesome-rust/README.md

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
    • Games
    • Operating systems
    • System tools
  • Development Tools
    • Debugging
    • Embedded
    • FFI
    • IDEs
    • Profiling
    • Testing
  • Libraries
    • Astronomy
    • Asynchronous
    • Audio
    • Authentication
    • Bioinformatics
    • Build system
    • Caching
    • Cloud
    • Command-line argument parsing
    • Command-line interface
    • Compression
    • Computation
    • Concurrency
    • Cryptography
    • Database
    • Data structures
    • Date and time
    • Distributed Systems
    • Email
    • Encoding
    • Game development
    • Games
    • Geospatial
    • GUI
    • Image processing
    • Machine learning
    • Markup language
    • Mobile
    • Network programming
    • Parser
    • Platform specific
    • Template engine
    • Text processing
    • Virtualization
    • Web programming
  • Resources
  • License

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
• Factotum - A system to programmatically run data pipelines
• 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
• Virtualization
  • tailhook/vagga — a containerization tool without daemons
• cristianoliveira/funzzy — a configurable watcher inspired in entr
• xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.

Games

See also 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 —

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
• mmstick/systemd-manager -- a systemd service manager written in Rust using GTK-rs.
• uutils/coreutils — a cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

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
• Erlang
  • hansihe/Rustler - Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions
• Java
  • drrb/java-rust-example — use Rust from Java
• mruby
  • anima-engine/mrusty - mruby safe bindings for Rust
• 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
• R
  • rustr/rustr — use Rust from R, and use R in Rust

IDEs

See also http://areweideyet.com/ and Rust and 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
• thehydroimpulse/tangle — a scala-inspired futures library

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

Caching

• jaysonsantos/bmemcached-rs - Memcached library written in pure 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

Command-line interface

• kkawakam/rustyline - Readline Implementation in Rust
• srijs/rust-copperline - Pure-Rust Command Line Editing Library

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]

• pingcap/tikv — TiKV is a distributed KV database powered by Rust
• 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
• pravic/rust-sciter — Rust bindings for the Sciter, embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine (cross-platform desktop GUI toolkit).
• 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
• nikomatsakis/lalrpop - LR(1) parser generator for Rust
• 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)

Virtualization

• saurvs/hypervisor-rs — Hardware-accelerated virtualization on OS X

Web programming

See also Rust web framework comparison.

• HTTP Client
  • carllerche/curl-rust — libcurl bindings
  • hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
  • vhbit/curl-rs — libcurl bindings
• HTTP Server
  • fengsp/pencil —
  • hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
  • Iron — a middleware-based server framework
    • sunng87/handlebars-iron — Handlebars-rust as an Iron web framework middleware.
  • 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
• WebSocket
  • cyderize/rust-websocket — a framework for dealing with WebSocket connections (both clients and servers)
  • housleyjk/ws-rs — lightweight, event-driven WebSockets for Rust

Resources

• Benchmarks
  • TeXitoi/benchmarksgame-rs — Rust implementations for the The Computer Language Benchmarks Game
• Podcasts
  • New Rustacean — a podcast about learning Rust
  • Rusty Radio — covering the rust ecosystem
• Rust by Example
• RustCamp 2015 Talks
• Rust Design Patterns
• Rust Guidelines
• rust-learning — a collection of useful resources to learn Rust
• Rustlings — small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code

License