The language that helped coin the moniker Rust Evangelism Strike Force, and which is slowly starting to get to me.
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applications | 2026 | DesignCraft | Rust page-layout application inspired by InDesign, with text frames, master pages and IDML import/export; PDF export is planned. |
| EffectCraft | Rust motion-graphics and compositing application inspired by After Effects, with keyframes, effects and a render queue. | ||
| FilmCraft | Rust video editor inspired by Premiere Pro, with a timeline, GPU compositor and native Rust codecs. | ||
| LightCraft | Rust photo-library and RAW-development application inspired by Lightroom, with non-destructive editing. | ||
| PhotoCraft | Early-alpha Rust image editor inspired by Photoshop, with layers and PSD/PSB support. | ||
| PrintCraft | Rust PDF workbench inspired by Acrobat, with viewing, annotations, page operations and form filling. | ||
| VectorCraft | Rust vector illustration application inspired by Illustrator, with SVG and PDF-compatible AI import/export. | ||
| Backend | 2024 | trailbase | a self-hostable Firebase replacement |
| Data | 2021 | ballista | an Apache Spark-like distributed execution environment |
| 2023 | lance | a modern columnar data format that is optimized for ML workflows and datasets, compatible with pandas | |
| Database | 2026 | pgrust | Rust reimplementation of PostgreSQL |
| Editors | 2026 | Ferrite | A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files built with Rust and egui |
| Embedded | 2024 | embassy | a framework for ESP32, Pico and Nordic MCUs |
| 2026 | mousefood | a no-std embedded-graphics backend for ratatui | |
| GUI | 2024 | dioxus | GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and more, using the system webview |
| egui | a simple, fast, and highly portable immediate mode GUI library for Rust. | ||
| graphpu | a 3D GPU graph visualization application | ||
| 2025 | azul | a desktop GUI framework for Rust | |
| 2026 | taffy | high-performance Rust-powered UI layout library | |
| mdv | TUI Markdown viewer | ||
| Game Engines | 2020 | Bevy | a data-driven game engine |
| GameLisp | a scripting language for Rust game development | ||
| RG3D | a 3D game engine | ||
| Learning | 2024 | rustlings | a collection of small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code |
| Libraries | 2020 | lunatic | a platform for building actor systems running WebAssembly |
| pulldown-cmark | Markdown paraer | ||
| rust-crdt | A family of CRDT’s supporting both State and Op based replication | ||
| syntect | Syntax highlighting using Sublime Text definitions | ||
| 2021 | bastion | a distributed fault-tolerant runtime system | |
| comrak | a Rust port of cmark-gfm | ||
| 2023 | ratatui | a library for developing text user interfaces | |
| ractor | an actor library | ||
| 2024 | kameo | a lightweight library for building fault-tolerant, distributed, and asynchronous actors | |
| 2025 | ratzilla | a library for building terminal-themed web applications using Rust and WebAssembly. | |
| pagefind | a static site search engine that runs in the browser | ||
| 2026 | FrankenTUI | minimal, high-performance terminal UI kernel for deterministic, flicker-free inline UIs with a diff-based renderer and strict cleanup guarantees (Rust nightly, WIP) | |
| h3.c | C implementation of the H3 geospatial indexing system | ||
| xmloxide | A memory-safe Rust reimplementation of libxml2 that passes the W3C XML conformance suite, provides XML/HTML parsers, XPath, validation, canonicalization, and a | ||
| unpeel-surface | Rust/WASM rendering primitives for terminal and native surfaces | ||
| Microservices | 2026 | openworkers | a self-hostable implementation of Cloudflare workers |
| Networking | 2024 | koblas | a simple SOCKS5 proxy |
| Parallelism | 2020 | rayon | a data parallelism library |
| 2024 | kay | An intriguing, mostly self-contained Actor system | |
| Profiling | 2020 | heaptrack | a memory profiler |
| Reference | 2023 | The Rust on ESP Book | A very nice guide on how to do Rust development for Expressif ESP32 devices |
| Runtime | 2026 | kern | rootless sandbox and virtual resource runtime for any workload |
| Security | 2026 | monty-go | Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic Monty, safely executing Python through WebAssembly and wazero without containers or subprocesses |
| LiteBox | a security-focused sandboxing library OS for reduced host attack surface | ||
| monty | a minimal, secure Python interpreter in Rust for running AI-generated code | ||
| Servers | 2022 | meilisearch | another search engine with document-level access control |
| tantivy | another search engine (Lucene-inspired) | ||
| sonic | a fast and schema-less indexing/search backend | ||
| 2026 | Garage | an S3-compatible distributed object storage service for small-to-medium self-hosted clusters | |
| ZeroFS | serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P and as raw block devices over NBD, with client-side compression and encryption; backends include AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, any S3-compatible store, or local disk | ||
| searxng-rust | Rust metadata search engine similar to searxng | ||
| narwhal | an extensible pub/sub messaging server for edge applications | ||
| Streaming | 2026 | airplay2-rs | Open-source AirPlay 2 audio sender in Rust — mDNS discovery, RAOP/RTSP pairing, ALAC encoding, buffered audio sync |
| System Monitoring | 2026 | ProcInSh | Linux process inspector with a web interface; reads process details, memory maps and environment data. Requires BTF-enabled Linux x86-64; remote access exposes process data and should be restricted to trusted clients. |
| Terminal | 2026 | l123 | A Lotus 1-2-3 style terminal spreadsheet built on Rust and IronCalc. |
| Tools | 2020 | rust-musl-builder | Docker wrappers for building Rust binaries with musl |
| 2021 | tauri | an Electron alternative that uses system webviews | |
| 2022 | mcfly | an enhanced ctrl-r replacement | |
| 2024 | dtui | a tool to inspect the system/session dbus | |
| zoxide | a port of the venerable z utility to Rust | ||
| 2025 | monolith | a tool to save web pages in a unified HTML format | |
| 2026 | ante | likely a code or compiler tool; staged to Rust as the closest systems fit | |
| rustd | Prototype Rust compiler daemon that keeps rust-analyzer analysis and compiled functions in memory for fast iterative rebuilds via cargo rustd; no borrow checker and pinned to Rust 1.99.0 | ||
| eilmeldung | a fast TUI RSS reader based on the news-flash library | ||
| vcad | Parametric CAD in Rust; exports STL, glTF, USD, DXF | ||
| Google Workspace CLI (gws) | One CLI for every Google Workspace API; discovers commands from Google’s Discovery Service, emits structured JSON for humans and agents, and ships dozens of reusable agent skills + an MCP server. | ||
| rmux | a tmux-compatible Rust terminal multiplexer with a daemon-backed SDK and ratatui integration | ||
| ra-jit | Rust build tool for live-editing running programs, with incremental rebuilds as a cargo subcommand; live editing works on macOS Apple silicon | ||
| siomon | Linux TUI/CLI hardware and sensor monitor written in Rust, ships as a static binary with zero runtime dependencies plus JSON/XML/HTML outputs, alerts, and CSV logging. | ||
| shoehorn | Rust tool to quantize GGUF models and run them with llama.cpp | ||
| Oak Oil | Experimental Rust build tool that uses Cargo plans and a content-addressed store to accelerate builds and remove stale or duplicate artifacts; supports macOS and Linux | ||
| Horizon | GPU-accelerated terminal board with an infinite 2D canvas, workspaces, and AI-aware panels for coding workflows. | ||
| Web Frameworks | 2023 | Rocket | a mostly complete async web framework |
| 2024 | spring-rs | a microservice framework inspired by spring-boot |