Alternatives to magic-wormhole.rs
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. magic-wormhole.rs itself: install magic-wormhole.rs.
rure
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs
gitoxide
An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
AriaNg Native
A better aria2 desktop frontend than AriaNg, with all features of AriaNg and providing more features for desktop usage
cargo-geiger
Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies
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
foundry
Foundry is a blazing fast, portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum application development written in Rust
boa
Boa is an embeddable Javascript engine written in Rust
blake3
the official Rust and C implementations of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function
magic_enum
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
libfuse@2
The reference implementation of the Linux FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) interface
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
node-sass
The reference implementation of Sass, written in Dart
dynomite
A generic dynamo implementation for different k-v storage engines
Textream
Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers, and presenters. It highlights your script in real-time as you speak, displayed
core-lightning
Core Lightning — Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance
typeshare
Typeshare is the ultimate tool for synchronizing your type definitions between Rust and other languages for seamless FFI
tinysearch
🔍 Tiny, full-text search engine for static websites built with Rust and Wasm
cbindgen
A project for generating C bindings from Rust code
libsixel
A SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel (https://github.com/saitoha/sixel)
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 magic-wormhole.rs — 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.
magic-wormhole.rs 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.