Rust successors to massive legacy C codebases
A directory of Rust codebases succeeding massive legacy C/C++ projects — ripgrep, coreutils, Git, nginx, Redis, OpenSSL, SQLite, and more.
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
bat
A cat(1) clone with wings.
helix
A post-modern modal text editor.
fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
nushell
A new type of shell
lapce
Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
just
🤖 Just a command runner
zellij
A terminal workspace with batteries included
tokio
A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
pingora
A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services.
coreutils
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
turso
A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now speaking Postgres. The LLVM of databases.
eza
A modern alternative to ls
RustPython
A Python Interpreter written in Rust
ratatui
A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨🍳🐀 https://ratatui.rs
wgpu
A cross-platform, safe, pure-Rust graphics API.
sqlx
🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
hyper
An HTTP library for Rust
diesel
A safe, extensible ORM and Query Builder for Rust
dust
A more intuitive version of du in rust
reqwest
An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Client
gitoxide
An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
dbx
20MB, lightweight, cross-platform database client. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, ClickHouse, SQL Server and more.20MB，轻量�…
sea-orm
🐚 A powerful relational ORM for Rust
Indexed via Apify actor + GitHub Search API across SQLite, OpenSSL, GNU tools, Git, nginx, Redis, and other legacy C targets. Refresh: node scripts/run-apify-mcp.js then php scripts/import-successors.php scripts/scraped/apify-successors-results.json