Top Rust repositories on GitHub
Memory-safe systems programming with zero-cost abstractions.
Ranked by stars across 12,692 Rust repositories on GitHub. Refreshed daily.
- 1ultraworkers/claw-code★ 194,105 · ⑂ 109,934
An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.
- 2rustdesk/rustdesk★ 116,581 · ⑂ 17,631
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
- remote-control
- remote-desktop
- teamviewer
- anydesk
- vnc
- rdp
- 3rust-lang/rust★ 113,995 · ⑂ 15,003
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
- rust
- compiler
- language
- 4tauri-apps/tauri★ 108,140 · ⑂ 3,713
Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.
- rust
- webview
- high-performance
- desktop-app
- mobile-app
- native-app
- 5denoland/deno★ 107,166 · ⑂ 6,079
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.
- deno
- typescript
- javascript
- rust
- 6farion1231/cc-switch★ 105,379 · ⑂ 6,971
A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Gemini CLI & Hermes Agent. Only official website: ccswitch.io
- ai-tools
- claude-code
- desktop-app
- open-source
- rust
- tauri
- 7oven-sh/bun★ 93,334 · ⑂ 4,721
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
- bun
- bundler
- javascript
- javascriptcore
- jsx
- nodejs
- 8openai/codex★ 92,376 · ⑂ 13,657
Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
- 9astral-sh/uv★ 86,607 · ⑂ 3,227
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.
- packaging
- python
- resolver
- uv
- 10zed-industries/zed★ 85,671 · ⑂ 9,175
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
- 11ruvnet/RuView★ 74,881 · ⑂ 9,988
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
- 12unionlabs/union★ 73,951 · ⑂ 3,882
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
- 13BurntSushi/ripgrep★ 65,281 · ⑂ 2,602
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
- ripgrep
- recursively-search
- search
- regex
- gitignore
- grep
- 14alacritty/alacritty★ 64,628 · ⑂ 3,493
A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
- terminal-emulators
- opengl
- gpu
- rust
- vte
- terminal
- 15rtk-ai/rtk★ 64,315 · ⑂ 3,963
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
- 16openinterpreter/openinterpreter★ 64,073 · ⑂ 5,555
A lightweight coding agent for open models like Deepseek, Kimi, and Qwen
- interpreter
- coding-agent
- deepseek
- kimi
- qwen
- rust
- 17rust-lang/rustlings★ 63,300 · ⑂ 11,205
:crab: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code!
- rust
- rustlings
- beginner-friendly
- exercises
- 18dani-garcia/vaultwarden★ 62,637 · ⑂ 2,927
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
- vaultwarden
- bitwarden
- rust
- docker
- rocket
- bitwarden-rs
- 19warpdotdev/warp★ 62,106 · ⑂ 5,065
Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.
- rust
- linux
- macos
- terminal
- bash
- zsh
- 20FuelLabs/sway★ 61,607 · ⑂ 5,421
🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts.
- sway
- language
- compiler
- fuel
- 21sharkdp/bat★ 59,324 · ⑂ 1,571
A cat(1) clone with wings.
- command-line
- tool
- syntax-highlighting
- git
- terminal
- cli
- 22starship/starship★ 58,399 · ⑂ 2,562
☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
- zsh-theme
- fish-theme
- zsh-prompt
- fish-prompt
- shell-prompt
- oh-my-zsh
- 23meilisearch/meilisearch★ 58,210 · ⑂ 2,576
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
- search-engine
- typo-tolerance
- site-search
- database
- enterprise-search
- search
- 24
- 25FuelLabs/fuel-core★ 57,000 · ⑂ 2,861
Rust full node implementation of the Fuel v2 protocol.
- blockchain
- fuel
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