Rui CarmoThe language that helped coin the moniker Rust Evangelism Strike Force, and which is slowly starting to get to me.
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
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| Backend | 2024 | trailbase | a self-hostable Firebase replacement |
| Data | 2021 | ballista | an Apache Spark-like distributed execution environment |
| 2023 | lance | a modern columnar data format that is optimized for ML workflows and datasets, compatible with pandas |
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| Editors | 2026 | Ferrite | A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files built with Rust and egui |
| Embedded | 2024 | embassy | a framework for ESP32, Pico and Nordic MCUs |
| 2026 | mousefood | a no-std embedded-graphics backend for ratatui |
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| GUI | 2024 | dioxus | GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and more, using the system webview |
| egui | a simple, fast, and highly portable immediate mode GUI library for Rust. |
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| graphpu | a 3D GPU graph visualization application |
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| 2025 | azul | a desktop GUI framework for Rust |
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| Game Engines | 2020 | Bevy | a data-driven game engine |
| GameLisp | a scripting language for Rust game development |
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| RG3D | a 3D game engine |
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| Learning | 2024 | rustlings | a collection of small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code |
| Libraries | 2020 | kay | an actor system for Rust |
| lunatic | a platform for building actor systems running WebAssembly |
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| pulldown-cmark | Markdown paraer |
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| rust-crdt | A family of CRDT’s supporting both State and Op based replication |
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| syntect | Syntax highlighting using Sublime Text definitions |
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| 2021 | bastion | a distributed fault-tolerant runtime system |
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| comrak | a Rust port of cmark-gfm |
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| 2023 | ratatui | a library for developing text user interfaces |
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| ractor | an actor library |
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| 2024 | kameo | a lightweight library for building fault-tolerant, distributed, and asynchronous actors |
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| 2025 | ratzilla | a library for building terminal-themed web applications using Rust and WebAssembly. |
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| pagefind | a static site search engine that runs in the browser |
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| Machine Learning | 2026 | gte-pure-C | Pure C implementation of the GTE-small text embedding model (dependency-free, 384-dim embeddings). Focused on semantic similarity, search, and clustering. |
| Microservices | openworkers | a self-hostable implementation of Cloudflare workers |
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| Networking | 2024 | koblas | a simple SOCKS5 proxy |
| Parallelism | 2020 | rayon | a data parallelism library |
| 2024 | kay | An intriguing, mostly self-contained Actor system |
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| Profiling | 2020 | heaptrack | a memory profiler |
| Reference | 2023 | The Rust on ESP Book | A very nice guide on how to do Rust development for Expressif ESP32 devices |
| Servers | 2022 | meilisearch | another search engine with document-level access control |
| tantivy | another search engine (Lucene-inspired) |
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| sonic | a fast and schema-less indexing/search backend |
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| 2026 | narwhal | an extensible pub/sub messaging server for edge applications |
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| Tools | 2020 | rust-musl-builder | Docker wrappers for building Rust binaries with musl |
| 2021 | tauri | an Electron alternative that uses system webviews |
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| 2022 | mcfly | an enhanced ctrl-r replacement |
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| 2024 | dtui | a tool to inspect the system/session dbus |
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| zoxide | a port of the venerable z utility to Rust |
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| 2025 | monolith | a tool to save web pages in a unified HTML format |
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| 2026 | vcad | Parametric CAD in Rust; exports STL, glTF, USD, DXF |
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| Web Frameworks | 2023 | Rocket | a mostly complete async web framework |
| 2024 | spring-rs | a microservice framework inspired by spring-boot |