Awesome Rust

Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/

A secure Python sandbox, written in Rust, for code written by AI.

A polyglot document intelligence framework with a Rust core. Extract text, metadata, images, and structured information from PDFs, Office documents, images, and 97+ formats. Available for Rust, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP, Elixir, C#, R, C, TypeScript (Node/Bun/Wasm/Deno)- or use via CLI, REST API, or MCP server.

Rust bindings for writing safe and fast native Node.js modules.

A command-line tool and Rust library with Python bindings for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases

A work-in-progress, open-source, multi-player city simulation game.

🧱 Easy fast local-first microVM runtime and library

Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!

Transcribe on your own!

Fast, flexible LLM inference

AI enabled pair programmer for Claude, GPT, O Series, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini and 300+ models

A container runtime written in Rust

The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop and mobile

Plano is an AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic apps. Smart LLM routing, observability, agent orchestration, and guardrails so you stay focused on your agents core logic.

Fuzzy Finder in rust!

Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.

A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

Light LDAP implementation

The live data layer for apps and AI agents. Create up-to-the-second views into your business, just using SQL

Copy/paste detector for source code. 220+ languages, Rust engine, SARIF/HTML/badge reporters, GitHub Action, MCP server for AI agents.

Backup tool for PC game saves

A very fast, portable and hackable fuzzy finder.

A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

Zero-cost asynchronous programming in Rust

HelixDB is an OLTP graph database with native vector and full-text search built in Rust on Object Storage.

Encoding and decoding images in Rust

⚡ Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine — OpenAI-API compatible, GGUF native, runs on any GPU. No Python. No llama.cpp. Single binary.

An open, sub-millisecond, single-executable Firebase alternative with type-safe APIs, built-in WebAssembly runtime, realtime subscriptions, auth, MCP and admin UI built on Rust, SQLite (PG) & Wasmtime.

A private network system that uses WireGuard under the hood.

Rust bindings for the C++ api of PyTorch.

Apache OpenDAL: One Layer, All Storage.

🦀 event stream processing for developers to collect and transform data in motion to power responsive data intensive applications.

Private front-end for Reddit

A cinematic Git commit replay tool for the terminal, turning your Git history into a living, animated story.

Per-process network monitoring for your terminal with deep packet inspection. Cross-platform, sandboxed.

A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

A Rust machine learning framework.

A rust drawing library for high quality data plotting for both WASM and native, statically and realtimely 🦀 📈🚀

a smol tcp/ip stack

Renderer for the harmony response format to be used with gpt-oss

The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.

A transactional, relational-graph-vector database that uses Datalog for query. The hippocampus for AI!

Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform that unifies all your formatters.

Native PostgreSQL driver for the Rust programming language

Blazing fast and lightweight PostGIS, MBtiles and PMtiles tile server, tile generation, and mbtiles tooling.

High-level emulator for early iOS apps. This repo is used for issues, releases and CI. Submit patches at: https://review.gerrithub.io/admin/repos/touchHLE/touchHLE

Date and time library for Rust

LeanCTX — Context Gateway for AI Systems. Control what your AI can see. Open-source Engine for context selection, supported controls, and evidence.

The Pants Build System