Awesome Alternatives in Rust

A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust.

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Table of contents

• Applications
• Container
• Database
• Games
• Observability
• Performance
• System tools
• Terminal
• Text editors
• Text processing
• Utilities
• Web
• Development tools
• Command runners
• Compilers
• Linters
• Runtimes
• Libraries
• Email
• Machine learning
• Message queues
• Search

Applications

Container

runc

• youki - An experimental container runtime written in Rust

Database

PostgreSQL

• pgrust - Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

Games

Stockfish

• Pleco - A Rust-based re-write of the Stockfish Chess Engine

Observability

Elasticsearch

• Quickwit - A cloud-native search engine for observability written in Rust

Performance

jMeter

• drill - A HTTP load testing application written in Rust

System tools

autojump / z

• zoxide - A smarter cd command for your terminal.

awk

• frawk - an efficient awk-like language

bash/PowerShell/fish

• ion - A modern shell developed for RedoxOS. But is still capable on *nix platforms.
• nushell - An attractive structured shell

bc

• cpc - Text calculator with support for units and conversion
• eva - a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)

cat

• bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

cloc

• tokei - Count your code, quickly.

coreboot

• oreboot - oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.

cp

• xcp - An extended cp

cut

• choose - A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk
• hck - A sharp cut(1) clone

diff

• delta - A viewer for git and diff output
• difftastic - A structural diff that understands syntax

dig

• dog - A command-line DNS client.

du

• dua - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
• dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust

find

• fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

fzf

• skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!

GNU coreutils

• coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

hexdump

• hexyl - A command-line hex viewer

httpie

• xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

ls

• eza - A replacement for 'ls'
• lsd - An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
• nat - ls alternative with useful info and a splash of color 🎨

nvm

• fnm - 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
• mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner

Midnight Commander

• broot - A better way to navigate directories

ps

• procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

rbenv

• frum - A little bit fast and modern Ruby version manager written in Rust

rename

• rnr - A command-line tool to batch rename files and directories

rm

• rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm

sed

• sad - CLI search and replace | Space Age seD
• sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

strings

• stringsext - Find multi-byte-encoded strings in binary data

sudo

• please - sudo like program with regex support written in rust

sysctl

• systeroid - A more powerful alternative to sysctl with a terminal user interface

time

• hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool

tldr

• intelli-shell - Like IntelliSense, but for shells
• navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
• tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

top

• bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
• ytop (no longer maintained) - A TUI system monitor written in Rust
• zenith - A terminal system monitor with zoomable charts

uniq

• huniq - Filter out duplicates on the command line.

xargs

• rargs - A kind of xargs + awk with pattern-matching support.

yay

• paru - Feature packed AUR helper

Terminal

Spaceship

• starship - ☄️🌌 The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

termite

• Alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
• WezTerm - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer

tmux

• Zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

Text editors

Vim

• Amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.
• Helix - A post-modern modal text editor

Text processing

grep

• ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

Utilities

codemod

• fastmod - A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool

jq

• jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool built with Rust 🦀

lazygit

• gitui - Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in Rust 🦀

Toggl Track

• Furtherance - Time-tracking app written in Rust

Web

Reddit

• Lemmy - 🐀 Building a federated alternative to reddit in rust

teddit

• libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust

Development tools

Command runners

make

• just - A command runner and partial replacement for make

Compilers

TypeScript Compiler

• SWC - A Rust-based platform for the web

Linters

ESLint

• deno_lint - Blazing fast linter for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust
• RSLint - A (WIP) Extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript linter and Rust crate

Flake8

• Ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust

Prettier

• dprint - Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform written in Rust.

ShellCheck

• Shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter

Runtimes

Node.js

• Deno - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust

Python

• RustPython - A Python interpreter written in Rust

Libraries

Email

mjml

• mrml - Blazing fast reimplementation of mjml in Rust (~200x faster)

Machine learning

PyTorch

• tch-rs - Rust bindings for the C++ API of PyTorch

Message queues

Apache RocketMQ

• rocketmq-rust - An Apache RocketMQ implementation written in Rust

Search

Apache Lucene

• Tantivy - A full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust