Awesome Rust

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

The goal is to have only projects that are mostly stable and useful to users.

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

Applications written in Rust

• buster/rrun — A command launcher for Linux, similar to gmrun
• BurntSushi/xsv — A fast CSV command line tool (slicing, indexing, selecting, searching, sampling, etc.)
• gchp/iota — a simple text editor written in Rust
• imjacobclark/Herd - an experimental HTTP load testing application written in Rust
• kbknapp/docli - a command line utility for managing DigitalOcean infrastructure
• seppo0010/rsedis — Redis reimplementation 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

Games

• Coeuvre/rust-2048
• lifthrasiir/angolmois-rust — a minimalistic music video game which supports the BMS format
• xojoc/snake-piston — a Snake game in Rust

Libraries

Audio

• GuillaumeGomez/rust-fmod — FMOD bindings
• JeremyLetang/ears — a simple library to play Sounds and Musics, on top of OpenAL and libsndfile
• JeremyLetang/rust-portaudio — PortAudio bindings
• jpernst/openal-rs — OpenAL 1.1 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
• slackito/zip — read and write ZIP archives

Computation

• 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
  • luqmana/rust-opencl — OpenCL 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
  • Cassandra
    • tupshin/cassandra-rust — Cassandra bindings
  • Elastic (formerly Elasticsearch)
    • [benashford/rs-es] (https://github.com/benashford/rs-es) - A Rust client for the [Elastic] (https://www.elastic.co/) REST API
  • ForestDB
    • vhbit/sherwood — ForestDB bindings
  • 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 —
• serde-rs/serde - a framework to generically serialize Rust data structures

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
• MsgPack
  • mneumann/rust-msgpack —
  • 3Hren/msgpack-rust - Pure Rust low/high level MessagePack implementation
• 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
  • chyh1990/yaml-rust — The missing YAML 1.2 implementation for Rust.
  • kimhyunkang/libyaml-rust — libyaml bindings

Filesystem

• FUSE
  • zargony/rust-fuse — FUSE bindings

Game development

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

GUI

• Cocoa
  • servo/rust-cocoa
• IUP
  • dcampbell24/iup-rust — IUP bindings
• GTK+
  • rust-gnome/gtk — GTK+ bindings
• ncurses
  • jeaye/ncurses-rs — ncurses bindings
• 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

• 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

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
• uTP
  • meqif/rust-utp — A uTP (Micro Transport Protocol) library for Rust.
• ZeroMQ
  • erickt/rust-zmq — ZeroMQ bindings

Platform specific

• DigitalOcean
  • kbknapp/doapi - DigitalOcean v2 API bindings
• Linux
  • carllerche/nix-rust — Linux API bindings
• Windows
  • retep998/winapi-rs — Windows API bindings

Template engine

• HTML
  • lfairy/maud — compile-time HTML templates
  • Stebalien/horrorshow-rs — compile-time HTML templates
• Mustache
  • rustache/rustache —
• 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/

• Client
  • carllerche/curl-rust — libcurl bindings
  • hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
  • vhbit/curl-rs — libcurl bindings
• Server
  • hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
  • 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
• rust-learning - a collection of useful resources to learn rust

Development Tools

• brson/multirust — manage multiple Rust installations
• crabtw/rust-bindgen — a Rust bindings generator
• dan-t/rusty-tags — create ctags/etags for a cargo project and all of its dependencies
• kmcallister/afl.rs — a Rust fuzzer, using AFL
• 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

• 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
• Vektah/idea-rust — an IntelliJ-based IDE for Rust
• Visual Studio Code

License