Top Rust repositories on GitHub
Memory-safe systems programming with zero-cost abstractions.
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- 1ultraworkers/claw-code★ 195,288 · ⑂ 108,428
An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.
- 2clash-verge-rev/clash-verge-rev★ 146,729 · ⑂ 10,539
A modern GUI client based on Tauri, designed to run in Windows, macOS and Linux for tailored proxy experience
- clash
- clash-meta
- clash-verge
- linux
- mac
- tauri-app
- 3farion1231/cc-switch★ 135,368 · ⑂ 9,286
A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Grok Build & Hermes Agent. Only official website: ccswitch.io
- ai-tools
- claude-code
- desktop-app
- open-source
- rust
- tauri
- 4openai/codex★ 126,120 · ⑂ 19,631
Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
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- 5rustdesk/rustdesk★ 124,331 · ⑂ 19,225
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
- remote-control
- remote-desktop
- teamviewer
- anydesk
- vnc
- rdp
- 6rust-lang/rust★ 119,069 · ⑂ 16,316
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
- rust
- compiler
- language
- 7tauri-apps/tauri★ 111,283 · ⑂ 4,019
Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.
- rust
- webview
- high-performance
- desktop-app
- mobile-app
- native-app
- 8denoland/deno★ 108,484 · ⑂ 6,379
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.
- deno
- typescript
- javascript
- rust
- 9oven-sh/bun★ 96,015 · ⑂ 5,056
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
- bun
- bundler
- javascript
- javascriptcore
- jsx
- nodejs
- 10ruvnet/RuView★ 94,809 · ⑂ 12,547
π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.
- densepose
- wifi
- esp32
- monitoring
- rf
- wifi-security
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- 11zed-industries/zed★ 90,755 · ⑂ 10,737
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
- text-editor
- zed
- gpui
- rust-lang
- 12astral-sh/uv★ 90,092 · ⑂ 3,607
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.
- packaging
- python
- resolver
- uv
- 13rtk-ai/rtk★ 81,511 · ⑂ 5,159
CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies
- agentic-coding
- ai-coding
- anthropic
- claude-code
- cli
- command-line-tool
- 14unionlabs/union★ 73,792 · ⑂ 3,886
The trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol, designed for censorship resistance, extremely high security, and usage in decentralized finance.
- blockchain
- cosmos
- evm
- golang
- rust
- solidity
- 15BurntSushi/ripgrep★ 68,528 · ⑂ 3,299
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
- ripgrep
- recursively-search
- search
- regex
- gitignore
- grep
- 16openinterpreter/openinterpreter★ 68,411 · ⑂ 5,883
A coding agent for open models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3
- coding-agent
- deepseek
- kimi
- qwen
- rust
- acp
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- 17dani-garcia/vaultwarden★ 68,047 · ⑂ 3,240
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
- vaultwarden
- bitwarden
- rust
- docker
- rocket
- bitwarden-rs
- 18alacritty/alacritty★ 65,795 · ⑂ 3,620
A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
- terminal-emulators
- opengl
- gpu
- rust
- vte
- terminal
- 19warpdotdev/warp★ 65,134 · ⑂ 5,581
Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.
- rust
- linux
- macos
- terminal
- bash
- zsh
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