Alternatives to rust-build
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. rust-build itself: install rust-build.
service-fabric-dotnet
Service Fabric .NET Libraries
rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
aptos-core
Aptos is a layer 1 blockchain built to support the widespread use of blockchain through better technology and user experience
maturin
Build and publish crates with pyo3, cffi and uniffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages
gcviewer
Fork of tagtraum industries' GCViewer. Tagtraum stopped development in 2008, I aim to improve support for Sun's / Oracle's java 1.6+ garbage collector
cargo-geiger
Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies
BuildSettingExtractor
Extracts the build settings of an Xcode project into xcconfig build configuration files
ollama
Get up and running with Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models
neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
PowerShell
PowerShell for every system!
dive
Installed with winget. Open source, with a documented one-command setup.
ruff
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust
fnm
🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
UniGetUI
Installed with winget. Open source, with a documented one-command setup.
Archon
The first open-source harness builder for AI coding. Make AI coding deterministic and repeatable
jcode
The most RAM efficient harness
ddns-go
Simple and easy to use DDNS. Support Aliyun, Tencent Cloud, Dnspod, Cloudflare, Callback, Huawei Cloud, Baidu Cloud, Porkbun, GoDaddy, Namecheap, Name
jackett
API Support for your favorite torrent trackers
Xournal++
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUS
dex2jar
Tools to work with android .dex and java .class files
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
OpenJarvis
Personal AI, On Personal Devices
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 rust-build — 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.
rust-build 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.