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Top Rust Crates

June 08, 2026 Updated weekly 50 entries

This ranking measures the popularity of Rust-based repositories on GitHub, scored by total stars accumulated across all projects. The data captures community adoption and developer interest in Rust crates and applications, reflecting both the language's growing ecosystem and the practical value these projects deliver.

Rust's influence extends far beyond systems programming, as evidenced by the diverse applications dominating these rankings. The meteoric rise of claw-code demonstrates the community's enthusiasm for breakthrough projects, while established tools like RustDesk and Tauri showcase Rust's versatility in desktop applications and cross-platform development. The presence of uv, a Python package manager written in Rust, highlights an emerging trend where Rust's performance advantages are being leveraged to accelerate tools in other language ecosystems, cementing its role as a foundation for next-generation developer infrastructure.

# Move Name About Score
1 claw-code The repo is finally unlocked. enjoy the party! The fastest repo in history to surpass 100K stars ⭐. Join Discord: https:… 193,445
2 rustdesk An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. 115,786
3 rust Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. 113,683
4 tauri Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend. 107,602
5 deno A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. 107,016
6 ▲2 cc-switch A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Gemini CLI & Hermes Agent. Onl… 94,408
7 ▼1 bun Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one 92,928
8 ▼1 codex Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal 89,428
9 uv An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. 86,103
10 zed Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sit… 84,726
11 union The trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol, designed for censorship resistance, extremely high security, and … 73,996
12 RuView π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection… 71,725
13 ripgrep ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore 64,878
14 alacritty A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. 64,503
15 rustlings :crab: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code! 63,116
16 ▲1 vaultwarden Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs 62,010
17 ▼1 sway 🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts. 61,648
18 warp Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal. 61,217
19 ▲5 rtk CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies 59,831
20 ▼1 bat A cat(1) clone with wings. 59,264
21 starship ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! 58,129
22 ▼2 meilisearch A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications. 58,004
23 ▼1 awesome-rust A curated list of Rust code and resources. 57,745
24 ▼1 fuel-core Rust full node implementation of the Fuel v2 protocol. 57,029
25 ChatGPT 🔮 ChatGPT Desktop Application (Mac, Windows and Linux) 54,385
26 typst A markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn. 54,059
27 Pake 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command. 50,119
28 ruff An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust. 47,860
29 ▲1 goose an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM 47,602
30 ▼1 bevy A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust 46,524
31 helix A post-modern modal text editor. 44,801
32 ▲1 fd A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' 43,270
33 ▼1 fuels-rs Fuel Network Rust SDK 43,181
34 hyperswitch Open source, composable payments platform | PCI compliant | SaaS and Self-host options | Enables connectivity to multipl… 42,835
35 nushell A new type of shell 39,686
36 yazi 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. 39,180
37 polars Extremely fast Query Engine for DataFrames, written in Rust 38,703
38 lapce Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust 38,605
39 ▲1 sniffnet Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️‍♂️ 38,446
40 ▼1 spacedrive Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust. 38,221
41 ▲2 CodeWhale DeepSeek + MiMo coding agent in terminal 37,472
42 ▼1 zoxide A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells. 37,283
43 ▼1 servo Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in appl… 37,009
44 dioxus Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, and mobile. 36,286
45 agent-browser Browser automation CLI for AI agents 35,518
46 NEW pnpm Fast, disk space efficient package manager 35,421
47 ▼1 firecracker Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing. 34,799
48 ▼1 just 🤖 Just a command runner 34,220
49 ▼1 fish-shell The user-friendly command line shell. 33,622
50 ▼1 tabby Self-hosted AI coding assistant 33,571

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Last updated
June 08, 2026