Alternatives to rust
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. rust itself: install rust.
maturin
Build and publish crates with pyo3, cffi and uniffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages
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
uv
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
ruff
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust
restic
Fast, secure, efficient backup program
fnm
🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
Xournal++
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUS
entt
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
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
buildkitd
concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit
boa
Boa is an embeddable Javascript engine written in Rust
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
bumblebee
Read-only developer endpoint scanner for on-disk package, extension, and developer-tool metadata, built to check exposure to known software supply-cha
rure
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs
bluepill
Bluepill is a reliable iOS testing tool that runs UI tests using multiple simulators on a single machine
Unshaky
A software attempt to address the "double key press" issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard [not actively maintained]
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
libbpf
Automated upstream mirror for libbpf stand-alone build
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 — 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 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.