Featured Rust Successor Projects
Highlighted Rust repos succeeding major legacy C and C++ codebases.
57 projects
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，轻量级跨平台数据库客户端、数据库管理工具。支持 MySQL、PostgreSQL、SQLite、Redis、MongoDB、DuckDB、ClickHouse、SQL Server 等。
sea-orm
🐚 A powerful relational ORM for Rust
sled
the champagne of beta embedded databases
rustls
A modern TLS library in Rust
sd
Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)
telemt
MTProxy for Telegram on Rust + Tokio
trailbase
An open, sub-millisecond, single-executable Firebase alternative with type-safe APIs, built-in WebAssembly runtime, realtime subscriptions, auth, and admin UI built on Rust, SQLite & Wasmtime.
rainfrog
🐸 a database tool for the terminal
rusqlite
Ergonomic bindings to SQLite for Rust
crossterm
Cross platform terminal library rust
regex
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.
cr-sqlite
Convergent, Replicated SQLite. Multi-writer and CRDT support for SQLite
sql-studio
SQL Database Explorer [SQLite, libSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, ClickHouse, DuckDB, Microsoft SQL Server]
agentfs
The filesystem for agents.
sqlsync
SQLSync is a collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite. It is designed to synchronize web application state between users, devices, and the edge.
SQLPage
Fast SQL-only data application builder. Automatically build a UI on top of SQL queries.
rbatis
Compile Time Async Dynamic SQL ORM
fjall
🗻 Log-structured, embeddable key-value storage engine written in Rust
lrclib
LRCLIB server written in Rust with Axum and SQLite3 database
tansu
Apache Kafka® compatible broker with S3, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake
corrosion
Gossip-based service discovery (and more) for large distributed systems.
russh
Rust SSH client & server library
sea-query
🔱 A dynamic SQL query builder for MySQL, Postgres and SQLite
sqlite-zstd
Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite
rust-openssl
OpenSSL bindings for Rust
mvsqlite
Distributed, MVCC SQLite that runs on FoundationDB.
quick-xml
Rust high performance xml reader and writer
graft
Graft is an open-source transactional storage engine optimized for lazy, partial, and strongly consistent replication—perfect for edge, offline-first, and distributed applications.
mesalink
OpenSSL compatibility layer for the Rust SSL/TLS stack
apalis
Type-safe, extensible, and high-performance background processing library for Rust
xlite
Query Excel spredsheets (.xlsx, .xls, .ods) using SQLite
arkflow
High performance Rust stream processing engine seamlessly integrates AI capabilities, providing powerful real-time data processing and intelligent analysis.
pgmicro
An in-process reimplementation of PostgreSQL, backed by a SQLite-compatible storage engine
mycelite
Mycelite is a SQLite extension that allows you to synchronize changes from one instance of SQLite to another.
rust_sqlite
SQLRite - Simple embedded database modeled off SQLite in Rust