List of Rust software and tools

This is a list of software and programming tools for the Rust programming language, including IDEs, compilers, libraries, verification and debugging tools, numerical and scientific computing libraries, and related projects.

Compilers

See also: List of Rust compilers

• Cranelift — code generator and JIT compiler that can be used to compile Rust through Wasmtime and experimental backends ^[1]
• LLVM ^[2]
• MRustC — alternative Rust compiler written in C++, focused on bootstrapping. ^[3]
• rustc — official Rust compiler, written in Rust and using LLVM as a backend. ^[4]

Integrated development environments and editors

See also: Comparison of integrated development environments for Rust

• CLion / IntelliJ IDEA — with the official Rust plugin maintained by JetBrains ^[5]
• Emacs — support via rustic mode and rust-mode ^{[6] [7]}
• Kate — basic Rust support via syntax highlighting and plugins
• Neovim / Vim — Rust support through plugins like rust.vim ^[8] and coc-rust-analyzer ^[9]
• RustRover — JetBrains IDE focused on Rust development
• Visual Studio Code — Rust support via the Rust Analyzer language server ^[10]
• Zed

Package managers and build systems

• Bazel — build system with community support for Rust rules ^[11]
• Cargo — Rust package manager and build tool, included with Rust distribution. ^[12]
• Crates.io — official package registry for Rust libraries and applications ^[13]
• Rustup — toolchain installer and version manager for Rust ^{[14] [15] [16]}

Libraries and frameworks

• Actix — actor framework and high-performance web framework ^[17]
• Diesel — ORM and query builder for Rust ^[18]
• Rayon — data parallelism library for Rust ^{[19] [20]}
• Rocket — web framework focused on type safety ^[21]
• Serde — framework for serialization and deserialization supporting JSON, YAML, TOML, and more. ^[22]
• Tokio — asynchronous runtime for Rust ^[23]

Real-time and embedded systems

• no_std Rust — core Rust programming without the standard library, for bare-metal development. ^[24]
• Rust for Embedded — Rust support for embedded systems via the Embedded Working Group ^{[25] [26]}
• RTIC — real-time concurrency framework for Cortex-M microcontrollers ^[27]
• Tock — embedded operating system written in Rust ^[28]

Numerical and scientific computing

• Linfa — machine learning framework for Rust ^{[29] [30]}
• ndarray — array and linear algebra operations ^{[31] [32]}
• nalgebra — general-purpose linear algebra library ^[33]
• Polars — DataFrame library for data analysis in Rust ^[34]

Verification, debugging, and analysis

• Clippy — linter for Rust, providing warnings for common mistakes and idioms. ^{[35] [36]}
• Miri — interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation (MIR), used for checking undefined behavior. ^[37]
• Rustfmt — formatting tool for Rust code ^[38]
• Sanitizer — Rust integration with LLVM sanitizers for memory and thread safety ^[39]

Testing frameworks

• Built-in test framework — included in the Rust compiler and Cargo ^{[40] [41]}
• Proptest — property-based testing framework for Rust ^{[42] [43]}
• QuickCheck for Rust — port of the Haskell QuickCheck property-testing library ^[44]

Documentation and code generation

• Bindgen — generates Rust FFI bindings to C libraries ^{[45] [46]}
• Cbindgen — generates C headers from Rust code ^{[47] [48]}
• rustdoc — official Rust documentation generator ^[49]

See also

• Lists of programming software development tools by language
• Rust programming on Wikibooks

External links

• Awesome-Rust — GitHub list of Rust software and tools
• crates.io — Rust package registry
• Official Rust documentation
• Official Rust website
• Rust on GitHub

References

1. https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime
2. https://llvm.org/
3. https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
4. https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/index.html
5. https://www.jetbrains.com/rust/
6. https://github.com/brotzeit/rustic
7. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-mode
8. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.vim
9. https://github.com/fannheyward/coc-rust-analyzer
10. https://rust-analyzer.github.io/
11. https://bazel.build/
12. https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/
13. https://crates.io/
14. https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/
15. https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/
16. https://rustup.rs/
17. https://actix.rs/
18. https://diesel.rs/
19. https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon
20. https://docs.rs/rayon/latest/rayon/
21. https://rocket.rs/
22. https://serde.rs/
23. https://tokio.rs/
24. https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/intro/no-std.html
25. https://docs.rust-embedded.org/
26. https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust
27. https://rtic.rs/
28. https://www.tockos.org/
29. https://github.com/rust-ml/linfa
30. https://rust-ml.github.io/linfa/rustdocs/linfa/
31. https://github.com/rust-ndarray/ndarray
32. https://docs.rs/ndarray/latest/ndarray/
33. https://docs.rs/nalgebra/latest/nalgebra/
34. https://www.pola.rs/
35. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy
36. https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
37. https://github.com/rust-lang/miri
38. https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt
39. https://doc.rust-lang.org/unstable-book/compiler-flags/sanitizer.html
40. https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch11-01-writing-tests.html
41. https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/testing/unit_testing.html
42. https://altsysrq.github.io/proptest-book/
43. https://docs.rs/proptest/latest/proptest/
44. https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck
45. https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-bindgen/
46. https://docs.rs/bindgen/latest/bindgen/
47. https://github.com/mozilla/cbindgen
48. https://docs.rs/cbindgen/latest/cbindgen/
49. https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/