Alternatives to choose-rust
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. choose-rust itself: install choose-rust.
fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
cargo-geiger
Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies
nelm
Nelm is a Helm 4 alternative. It is a Kubernetes deployment tool that manages Helm Charts and deploys them to Kubernetes. The Nelm goal is to provide
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
ruff
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust
fnm
🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
eza
A modern alternative to ls
sonic
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
diff-so-fancy
Make your diffs human readable for improved code quality and faster defect detection. :tada:
duf
Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
gitoxide
An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
foundry
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust
FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to Sou
boa
Boa is an embeddable Javascript engine written in Rust
PureMac
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache clea
IPFS Desktop
An unobtrusive and user-friendly desktop application for IPFS on Windows, Mac and Linux
blake3
the official Rust and C implementations of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function
cargo-flamegraph
Easy flamegraphs for Rust projects and everything else, without Perl or pipes <3
shimmy
⚡ Pure-Rust WebGPU inference engine — OpenAI-API compatible, GGUF native, runs on any GPU. No Python. No llama.cpp. Single binary
maturin
Build and publish crates with pyo3, cffi and uniffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages
stern
⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern
detect-secrets
An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code
zsh-vi-mode
💻 A better and friendly vi(vim) mode plugin for ZSH
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than choose-rust — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
choose-rust is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.