Best Rust Tools & Libraries

109 curated Rust tools, libraries, and open-source projects — hand-picked and ranked by the community.

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Rocket

github

A web framework for Rust.

Frameworks
★ 25,722

Graphite

github

Open source comprehensive 2D content creation tool suite for graphic design, digital art, and interactive real-time motion graphics — featuring node-based procedural editing

Design
★ 25,414

fhevm

github

FHEVM, a full-stack framework for integrating Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with blockchain applications

Developer Tools
★ 25,337

fnm

github

🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust

Developer Tools
★ 25,329

difftastic

github

a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩

Developer Tools
★ 25,183

tree-sitter

github

An incremental parsing system for programming tools

Developer Tools
★ 25,100

llmfit

github

Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

AI Tools
★ 24,753

SpacetimeDB

github

Development at the speed of light

Database
★ 24,612

actix-web

github

Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

Developer Tools
★ 24,591

biome

github

A toolchain for web projects, aimed to provide functionalities to maintain them. Biome offers formatter and linter, usable via CLI and LSP.

Developer Tools
★ 24,504

exa

github

A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

CLI Tools
★ 24,441

niri

github

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

Developer Tools
★ 23,514

tools

github

Unified developer tools for JavaScript, TypeScript, and the web

Developer Tools
★ 23,452

coreutils

github

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

CLI Tools
★ 23,186

slint

github

Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, JavaScript, or Python apps.

Design
★ 22,426

nautilus_trader

github

Production-grade Rust-native trading engine with deterministic event-driven architecture

AI Tools
★ 22,247

flow

github

Adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality.

Developer Tools
★ 22,206

RustPython

github

A Python Interpreter written in Rust

Developer Tools
★ 22,031

gitui

github

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

CLI Tools
★ 21,854

vector

github

A high-performance observability data pipeline.

DevOps
★ 21,746

neon

github

Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.

Database
★ 21,665

mdBook

github

Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust

Developer Tools
★ 21,578

eza

github

A modern alternative to ls

CLI Tools
★ 21,552

gleam

github

⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!

Developer Tools
★ 21,399