Top Rust Compilers repositories on GitHub
Front-ends, back-ends, and language toolchains. Filtered to projects whose primary language is Rust.
Ranked by stars across 300 Rust repositories tagged compiler. Refreshed daily.
- 1rust-lang/rust★ 118,921 · ⑂ 15,947
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
- rust
- compiler
- language
- 2FuelLabs/sway★ 61,441 · ⑂ 5,413
🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts.
- sway
- language
- compiler
- fuel
- 3typst/typst★ 56,091 · ⑂ 1,716
A markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
- typesetting
- compiler
- markup
- typst
- 4swc-project/swc★ 34,196 · ⑂ 1,556
Rust-based platform for the Web
- ecmascript
- compiler
- rust
- javascript
- parser
- babel
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- 5oxc-project/oxc★ 22,786 · ⑂ 1,304
⚓ A collection of high-performance JavaScript tools.
- compiler
- javascript
- linter
- minifier
- parser
- typescript
- 6RustPython/RustPython★ 22,355 · ⑂ 1,485
A Python Interpreter written in Rust
- rust
- python3
- python-language
- jit
- interpreter
- hacktoberfest
- 7gleam-lang/gleam★ 21,923 · ⑂ 1,021
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
- gleam
- programming-language
- compiler
- erlang
- statically-typed
- 8web-infra-dev/rspack★ 12,909 · ⑂ 854
Fast Rust-based bundler for the web with a modernized webpack API 🦀
- bundler
- javascript
- compiler
- web
- rust
- build-tool
- 9foundry-rs/foundry★ 10,611 · ⑂ 2,630
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust.
- rust
- solidity
- evm
- testing
- fuzzing
- blockchain
- 10parcel-bundler/lightningcss★ 7,679 · ⑂ 301
An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust.
- css
- parser
- compiler
- minifier
- rust
- build-tool
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- 11farm-fe/farm★ 5,588 · ⑂ 190
Extremely fast Vite-compatible web build tool written in Rust
- build-tool
- compiler
- rust
- hmr
- frontend
- farm
- 12ProvableHQ/leo★ 4,824 · ⑂ 716
🦁 The Leo Programming Language. A Programming Language for Formally Verified, Zero-Knowledge Applications
- programming-language
- zero-knowledge
- compiler
- zksnarks
- leo
- 13yoav-lavi/melody★ 4,743 · ⑂ 59
Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable
- regular-expression
- language
- regex
- compiler
- melody
- melodylang
- 14borgo-lang/borgo★ 4,632 · ⑂ 65
Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go.
- compiler
- golang
- programming-language
- rust-lang
- 15trunk-rs/trunk★ 4,392 · ⑂ 322
Build, bundle & ship your Rust WASM application to the web.
- rust
- wasm
- bundler
- assets
- wasm-bindgen
- html
- 16GetFirefly/firefly★ 3,581 · ⑂ 110
An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly
- beam
- erlang
- erlang-vm
- virtual-machine
- web-assembly
- compiler
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- 17gluon-lang/gluon★ 3,446 · ⑂ 153
A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust.
- rust
- repl
- programming-language
- type-inference
- functional
- embeddable
- 18Rust-GPU/rust-gpu★ 3,360 · ⑂ 125
🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧
- compiler
- rust
- shaders
- spirv
- vulkan
- gpu-programming
- 19erg-lang/erg★ 2,858 · ⑂ 61
A statically typed language compatible with Python
- compiler
- programming-language
- python
- rust
- language
- erg
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