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

BurntSushi/xsv — A fast CSV command line tool (slicing, indexing, selecting, searching, sampling, etc.)
buster/rrun — A command launcher for Linux, similar to gmrun
clog-tool/clog-cli — a conventional changelog port (generates a changelog from git metadata)
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
MaidSafe — a decentralized platform.
seppo0010/rsedis — Redis reimplementation in Rust.
Servo — a prototype web browser engine written in Rust
uutils/coreutils — cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

Games

Games Made With Piston
lifthrasiir/angolmois-rust — a minimalistic music video game which supports the BMS format
swatteau/sokoban-rs — a rust implementation of the famous Sokoban game

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
- 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- kbknapp/cargo-outdated — displays when newer versions of Rust dependencies are available, or out of date
- 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
clog-tool/clog-lib — a library for generating a changelogs from git metadata

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
- 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
- MongoDB
  - mongodbinc-interns/mongo-rust-driver-prototype — MongoDB 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

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 —
Cyclic Redundancy Check
- mrhooray/crc-rs —
CSV
- BurntSushi/rust-csv —
HTML
- servo/html5ever — High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser
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
- 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 —
- tomaka/glium — safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.
- 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

Markup language

CommonMark
- google/pulldown-cmark — CommonMark parser in Rust

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

Parser

Geal/nom — parser combinator library
kevinmehall/rust-peg — Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) parser generator
Marwes/combine — parser combinator library

Platform specific

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

Profiling

Generate FlameGraph
- mrhooray/torch

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

Client
- carllerche/curl-rust — libcurl bindings
- cyderize/rust-websocket — a framework for dealing with WebSocket connections (both clients and servers)
- hyperium/hyper — an HTTP implementation
- vhbit/curl-rs — libcurl bindings
Server
- cyderize/rust-websocket — a framework for dealing with WebSocket connections (both clients and servers)
- 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
RustCamp 2015 Talks

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
ellisonch/rust-stopwatch — a stopwatch library for Rust. Used to time things.
frewsxcv/crate-deps — generates images of dependency graphs for crates hosted on crates.io
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