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image-rs/image

Encoding and decoding images in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#decoding-images #pixel #rust

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-05-25
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 230 open

5,883

stars

Forks: 723
Commits: 4,556 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Michael-A-Kuykendall/shimmy

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

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum Express FastAPI Cargo npm pip

GitHub topics

#api-server #command-line-tool #developer-tools #gguf #huggingface #huggingface-models

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2026-01-10
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 10 open

5,865

stars

Forks: 569
Commits: 196 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sirupsen/napkin-math

Techniques and numbers for estimating system's performance from first-principles

Stack

Rust Bundler Cargo Go modules

Updated: 2026-03-21
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-20
History: 64 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

5,806

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 134 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Eventual-Inc/Daft

High-performance data engine for AI and multimodal workloads. Process images, audio, video, and structured data at any scale

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum pytest Cargo CMake PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ai-engineering #ai-pipeline #arrow #artificial-intelligence #big-data #data-engineering

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2022-05-10
History: 42 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 394 open

5,756

stars

Forks: 555
Commits: 4,555 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

trailbaseio/trailbase

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.

Stack

Rust Android Astro Axum Express Cargo CMake Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#authentication #database #rest-api #rust

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2024-10-30
History: 9 history points
License: OSL-3.0
Issues: 34 open

5,627

stars

Forks: 195
Commits: 2,216 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

emmett-framework/granian

A Rust HTTP server for Python applications

Stack

Rust pytest Cargo uv

GitHub topics

#asgi #asyncio #http #http-server #python #rsgi

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-15
History: 10 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 41 open

5,610

stars

Forks: 174
Commits: 849 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tonarino/innernet

A private network system that uses WireGuard under the hood.

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 83 open

5,551

stars

Forks: 214
Commits: 400 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

LaurentMazare/tch-rs

Rust bindings for the C++ api of PyTorch.

Stack

Rust Cargo CMake PEP 517

GitHub topics

#deep-learning #machine-learning #neural-network #pytorch #rust

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-02-16
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 248 open

5,498

stars

Forks: 457
Commits: 960 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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apache/opendal

Apache OpenDAL: One Layer, All Storage.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum pytest React Tornado Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#azblob #gcs #hacktoberfest #redis #rust #s3

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-02-14
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 336 open

5,394

stars

Forks: 827
Commits: 4,730 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

winfunc/deepreasoning

A high-performance LLM inference API and Chat UI that integrates DeepSeek R1's CoT reasoning traces with Anthropic Claude models.

Stack

Rust Axum Next.js React Tailwind CSS Bun Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#ai #anthropic #anthropic-claude #api #chain-of-thought #claude

Updated: 2025-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-01-26
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 54 open

5,361

stars

Forks: 438
Commits: 9 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

EmbarkStudios/kajiya

💡 Experimental real-time global illumination renderer 🦀

Archived

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2025-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-11
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 22 open

5,339

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 579 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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spieglt/FlyingCarpet

Cross-platform AirDrop. File transfer between Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows over ad hoc WiFi. No network infrastructure required, just two devices with WiFi chips (and optionally Bluetooth) in close range.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Android Tauri Cargo Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #bluetooth #bluetooth-low-energy #cross-platform #f-droid #fdroid

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-08
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

5,331

stars

Forks: 257
Commits: 310 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

achristmascarl/rainfrog

🐸 a database tool for the terminal

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#database-management #mysql #postgresql #ratatui #rust #sql

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-06-03
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

5,323

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 351 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

fluvio-community/fluvio

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

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #data-analytics #data-flow #data-integration #data-pipelines #distributed-systems

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-04
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 139 open

5,256

stars

Forks: 531
Commits: 2,574 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libreddit/libreddit

Private front-end for Reddit

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#docker #front-end #privacy #reddit #rust #security

Updated: 2025-02-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-10-25
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 196 open

5,200

stars

Forks: 254
Commits: 958 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

unhappychoice/gitlogue

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

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-tool #code-animation #commit-history #developer-tools #git

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2025-11-08
History: 8 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 10 open

5,081

stars

Forks: 118
Commits: 585 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

huggingface/text-embeddings-inference

A blazing fast inference solution for text embeddings models

Stack

Rust Axum pytest Cargo PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#ai #embeddings #huggingface #llm #ml

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2023-10-13
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 206 open

5,045

stars

Forks: 429
Commits: 364 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

domcyrus/rustnet

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

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#android #cli #command-line #dpi #ebpf #freebsd

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2025-04-27
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 18 open

4,993

stars

Forks: 230
Commits: 729 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

malisper/pgrust

Postgres rewritten in Rust, now faster than Postgres and Clickhouse

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#ai-assisted-development #database #postgres #postgresql #rust

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-06-12
History: 3 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 26 open

4,937

stars

Forks: 187
Commits: 5 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sayanarijit/xplr

A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #console #developer-tools #file-explorer #file-launcher

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-01
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

4,837

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 961 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

anordal/shellharden

The corrective bash syntax highlighter

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#lint #policy #syntax-highlighter

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-26
History: 5 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 10 open

4,806

stars

Forks: 133
Commits: 312 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

nkaz001/hftbacktest

Free, open source, a high frequency trading and market making backtesting and trading bot, which accounts for limit orders, queue positions, and latencies, utilizing full tick data for trades and order books(Level-2 and Level-3), with real-world crypto trading examples for Binance and Bybit

Stack

Rust Jupyter Cargo PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#algorithmic-trading #algotrading #backtesting #backtesting-engine #backtesting-trading-strategies #binance

Updated: 2025-12-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-08-25
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

4,785

stars

Forks: 917
Commits: 1,038 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

agentgateway/agentgateway

Next Generation Agentic Proxy for AI Agents and MCP servers

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum Cobra gRPC Go React Cargo Go modules PEP 517

GitHub topics

#agents #ai #ai-gateway #api-gateway #gateway-api #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-18
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 296 open

4,749

stars

Forks: 815
Commits: 2,596 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rust-ml/linfa

A Rust machine learning framework.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#algorithms #machine-learning #rust #scientific-computing

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-05
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 75 open

4,747

stars

Forks: 334
Commits: 382 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

not-fl3/macroquad

Cross-platform game engine in Rust.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#android #game-engine #ios #rust #wasm

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-01-08
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 347 open

4,661

stars

Forks: 427
Commits: 752 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

plotters-rs/plotters

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

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#data-plotting #graphing #plot #plotting #rust #rust-crate

Updated: 2026-04-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-24
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 184 open

4,630

stars

Forks: 320
Commits: 1,621 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

smoltcp-rs/smoltcp

a smol tcp/ip stack

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#embedded #networking-stack

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-12-10
History: 1 history point
License: 0BSD
Issues: 112 open

4,620

stars

Forks: 578
Commits: 2,100 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

rivet-dev/agentos

Give agents an operating system as a library. Runs in your existing backend – no sandboxes, VMs, or SaaS. Powered by WebAssembly & V8 isolates.

AI dev

Stack

Rust React Vite Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#agent #ai #javascript #llm #sandbox #v8

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-03-30
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 144 open

4,608

stars

Forks: 243
Commits: 384 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

szabodanika/microbin

A secure, configurable file-sharing and URL shortening web app written in Rust.

Stack

Rust Actix Web Cargo

GitHub topics

#actix #askama #bin #microbin #opensource #paste

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-04-10
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 100 open

4,559

stars

Forks: 318
Commits: 362 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nolabs-ai/nono

agent runtime security - zero trust, zero setup, zero latency agent sandboxing

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#agent-runtime-security #agent-sandbox #agent-security #ai-agent-sandbox #ai-agent-security #ai-agents

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2026-02-09
History: 89 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 258 open

4,540

stars

Forks: 304
Commits: 1,839 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +111 +2.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +31 +1.7%

Website GitHub

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