Languages Written in Rust
This is a (probably incomplete) list of languages implemented in Rust. It is intended as a source of inspiration and comparison, and as a directory of potentially interesting projects in this vein.
What Can Be Included?
- Is it a language?
- Is it written in Rust?
Then it can be included in this list!
List of Languages
| Name | ⭐ Stars | ☀️ Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deno | 91,583 | ☀️ Active | A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. |
| Rust | 87,773 | ☀️ Active | Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. |
| Sway | 37,838 | ☀️ Active | 🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts. |
| swc | 29,067 | ☀️ Active | Rust-based platform for the Web |
| nu | 27,483 | ☀️ Active | A new type of shell |
| Typst | 23,831 | ☀️ Active | A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn. |
| RustPython | 15,929 | ☀️ Active | A Python Interpreter written in Rust |
| Gleam | 5,583 | ☀️ Active | ⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems! |
| Lightning CSS | 5,114 | ☀️ Active | An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust. |
| Parcel CSS | 5,114 | ☀️ Active | An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust. |
| Melody | 4,520 | ☀️ Active | Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable |
| Boa | 4,348 | ☀️ Active | Boa is an embeddable and experimental Javascript engine written in Rust. Currently, it has support for some of the language. |
| Leo | 3,464 | ☀️ Active | 🦁 The Leo Programming Language. A Programming Language for Formally Verified, Zero-Knowledge Applications |
| Kind | 3,324 | ☀️ Active | A next-gen functional language |
| Rhai | 3,192 | ☀️ Active | Rhai - An embedded scripting language for Rust. |
| Gluon | 3,020 | ☀️ Active | A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust. |
| Roc | 3,018 | ☀️ Active | A fast, friendly, functional language. Work in progress! |
| Artichoke | 2,956 | ☀️ Active | 💎 Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust |
| Erg | 2,370 | ☀️ Active | A statically typed language that can deeply improve the Python ecosystem |
| Move | 2,065 | ☀️ Active | None |
| Nickel | 1,912 | ☀️ Active | Better configuration for less |
| Scryer Prolog | 1,802 | ☀️ Active | A modern Prolog implementation written mostly in Rust. |
| Ante | 1,694 | ☀️ Active | A safe, easy systems language |
| Mun | 1,645 | ☀️ Active | Source code for the Mun language and runtime. |
| Dyon | 1,640 | ☀️ Active | A rusty dynamically typed scripting language |
| Fe | 1,520 | ☀️ Active | Emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain. |
| goscript | 1,498 | ☀️ Active | An alternative implementation of Golang specs, written in Rust for embedding or wrapping. |
| Rune | 1,387 | ☀️ Active | An embeddable dynamic programming language for Rust. |
| Differential Datalog | 1,293 | ☀️ Active | DDlog is a programming language for incremental computation. It is well suited for writing programs that continuously update their output in response to input changes. A DDlog programmer does not write incremental algorithms; instead they specify the desired input-output mapping in a declarative manner. |
| frawk | 1,144 | ☀️ Active | an efficient awk-like language |
| Tao | 1,030 | ☀️ Active | A statically-typed functional language with generics, typeclasses, sum types, pattern-matching, first-class functions, currying, algebraic effects, associated types, good diagnostics, etc. |
| KCL | 951 | ☀️ Active | KCL Language Core. KCL is a constraint-based record & functional language mainly used in configuration and policy scenarios. (CNCF Sandbox Project). https://kcl-lang.io |
| SPWN | 765 | ☀️ Active | A language for Geometry Dash triggers |
| Astro | 713 | ☀️ Active | A fun safe language for rapid prototyping and high performance applications |
| CSML | 692 | ☀️ Active | CSML is an easy-to-use chatbot programming language and framework. |
| Steel | 641 | ☀️ Active | An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust |
| Inko | 624 | ☀️ Active | A language for building concurrent software with confidence |
| Starlark | 538 | ☀️ Active | A Rust implementation of the Starlark language |
| Duckscript | 462 | ☀️ Active | Simple, extendable and embeddable scripting language. |
| jsparagus | 410 | ☀️ Active | Experimental JS parser-generator project. |
| Wain | 374 | ☀️ Active | WebAssembly implementation from scratch in Safe Rust with zero dependencies |
| Koto | 354 | ☀️ Active | A simple, expressive, embeddable programming language, made with Rust |
| Lurk | 349 | ☀️ Active | Lurk is a Turing-complete programming language for recursive zk-SNARKs. It is a statically scoped dialect of Lisp, influenced by Scheme and Common Lisp. |
| EndBASIC | 289 | ☀️ Active | BASIC environment with a REPL, a web interface, a graphical console, and RPi support written in Rust |
| Tokay | 222 | ☀️ Active | Tokay is a programming language designed for ad-hoc parsing, inspired by awk. |
| Veryl | 218 | ☀️ Active | Veryl: A Modern Hardware Description Language |
| Tvix | 186 | ☀️ Active | Tvix - A Rust implementation of Nix. Read-only mirror of https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/tree/tvix |
| Antimony | 115 | ☀️ Active | The Antimony programming language |
| Butter | 112 | ☀️ Active | A tasty language for building efficient software. Currently work in progress! |
| candy | 105 | ☀️ Active | 🍭 A sweet programming language that is robust, minimalistic, and expressive. |
| Calcit | 92 | ☀️ Active | Indentation-based ClojureScript compiling to JavaScript ES Modules |
| Darksecond/lox | 84 | ☀️ Active | A rust implementation of the lox language |
| rtforth | 78 | ☀️ Active | Forth implemented in Rust for realtime application |
| Calypso | 60 | ☀️ Active | Calypso is a mostly imperative language with some functional influences that is focused on flexibility and simplicity. |
| Oriel | 55 | ☀️ Active | An interpreter for the 1991 Oriel scripting language |
| Stellar | 40 | ☀️ Active | ✨ An open source WIP general programming language for web development built using Rust. ✨ |
| Ellie | 39 | ☀️ Active | Ellie is a type-safe programing language that runs on embedded and sandboxed environments. |
| darklua | 37 | ☀️ Active | A command line tool that transforms Lua code |
| ucg | 31 | ☀️ Active | A Universal Configuration Grammar |
| The Force | 21 | ☀️ Active | A Star Wars themed programming language |
| Wright | 20 | ☀️ Active | The wright programming language (WIP) |
| Terbium | 19 | ☀️ Active | A high-level language that doesn't compromise in performance, made with Rust. |
| Nukleus | 13 | ☀️ Active | Simple and fast Dynamic Modular Structure-based AI, GUI, Cross-Platform Programming Language |
| Tethys | 11 | ☀️ Active | A toy functional programming language with a System F-based core calculus |
| Sligh | 10 | ☀️ Active | A language for certifying specification |
| snow-lang | 7 | ☀️ Active | A functional programming language |
| loxidation | 4 | ☀️ Active | Lox bytecode compiler and VM in Rust |
| Tron | 4 | ☀️ Active | Open source programming language written in Rust. |
| PopperLang | 1 | ☀️ Active | The CLI that group all project to one to finally make the Popper-lang |
| rusch | 1 | ☀️ Active | Minimal Scheme implemented in Rust |
| Orion | 0 | ☀️ Active | None |
| Passerine | 1,022 | 🌙 Inactive | A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code. |
| ClojureRS | 921 | 🌙 Inactive | Clojure, implemented atop Rust (unofficial) |
| Ketos | 742 | 🌙 Inactive | Lisp dialect scripting and extension language for Rust programs |
| Pikelet | 601 | 🌙 Inactive | A friendly little systems language with first-class types. Very WIP! 🚧 🚧 🚧 |
| Starlight | 484 | 🌙 Inactive | JS engine in Rust |
| Wu | 456 | 🌙 Inactive | 🐉 A practical game and data language |
| CalcuLaTeX | 385 | 🌙 Inactive | A pretty printing calculator language with support for units. Makes calculations easier and more presentable with real time LaTeX output, along with support for units, variables, and mathematical functions. |
| Monkey-Rust | 329 | 🌙 Inactive | An interpreter for the Monkey programming language written in Rust |
| Sphinx | 285 | 🌙 Inactive | An intepreter for a simple dynamic language written in Rust |
| Eldiro | 229 | 🌙 Inactive | Learn to make your own programming language with Rust |
| Loxcraft | 209 | 🌙 Inactive | Language tooling for the Lox programming language. |
| crafting-interpreters-rs | 205 | 🌙 Inactive | Crafting Interpreters in Rust |
| TablaM | 175 | 🌙 Inactive | The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications |
| atto | 143 | 🌙 Inactive | An insanely simple self-hosted functional programming language |
| Minitt | 111 | 🌙 Inactive | Dependently-typed lambda calculus, Mini-TT, extended and implemented in Rust |
| Boson | 108 | 🌙 Inactive | A hybrid programming language written in Rust. |
| Voile | 93 | 🌙 Inactive | Dependently-typed row-polymorphic programming language, evolved from minitt-rs |
| Jazz | 89 | 🌙 Inactive | Jazz - modern and fast programming language. |
| Rust-lisp | 83 | 🌙 Inactive | A small Lisp interpreter written in Rust. Work in progress. |
| Rust-Prolog | 79 | 🌙 Inactive | Rust implementation of prolog based on miniprolog: http://andrej.com/plzoo/html/miniprolog.html |
| ssp16asm | 73 | 🌙 Inactive | A collection of development tools targetting SEGA's SVP chip found in the Mega Drive/Genesis version of Virtua Racing. |
| diatom | 72 | 🌙 Inactive | The diatom programming language |
| Laythe | 63 | 🌙 Inactive | A gradually typed language originally based on the crafting interpreters series |
| rulox | 61 | 🌙 Inactive | Implementation in Rust of lox, the language described in Crafting Interpreters |
| Crunch | 52 | 🌙 Inactive | A strongly & statically typed systems level language focused on ease of use, portability and speed, built for the modern age. |
| Blazescript | 48 | 🌙 Inactive | AOT compiled object oriented programming language |
| Chili | 45 | 🌙 Inactive | General-purpose, compiled programming language, focused on productivity, expressiveness and joy of programming™ |
| rodaine/rlox | 37 | 🌙 Inactive | Lox Interpreter/REPL written in Rust |
| tox | 35 | 🌙 Inactive | Tox is a statically typed version programming language that is written in rust. |
| Schwift | 31 | 🌙 Inactive | An actual programming language for some reason |
| lox-rs | 28 | 🌙 Inactive | A Lox Interpreter in Rust |
| Lisp.rs | 25 | 🌙 Inactive | Scheme Interpreter in Rust |
| Pr47 | 21 | 🌙 Inactive | The formal development repository for Pr47 |
| Synthizer | 20 | 🌙 Inactive | A simple, experimental functional language for real time additive audio synthesis. |
| cat-lox | 18 | 🌙 Inactive | A tree-walk lox interpreter written in Rust. |
| rctcwyvrn/rlox | 16 | 🌙 Inactive | Rust implementation of the bytecode VM (clox) from https://craftinginterpreters.com/ |
| Arn | 15 | 🌙 Inactive | A functional golfing language |
| Radicle | 11 | 🌙 Inactive | an ur-lisp interpreter written in Rust |
| loxr | 8 | 🌙 Inactive | A Rust interpreter for the Lox language |
| Lang | 7 | 🌙 Inactive | An imperative programming language written in Rust |
| radogost/rlox | 7 | 🌙 Inactive | An implementation of lox from the great book http://craftinginterpreters.com implemented in Rust |
| minipyth | 7 | 🌙 Inactive | A minimalist programming language |
| Iron | 6 | 🌙 Inactive | A Lisp-based language written in Rust |
| loxrs | 6 | 🌙 Inactive | [old] Crafting Interpreters in Rust (Part II: A tree-walk interpreter) |
| relox | 6 | 🌙 Inactive | Rust port of the jlox interpreter |
| 🌌 | 6 | 🌙 Inactive | What if identifiers could be anything? Langjam submission |
| justinmayhew/lox | 5 | 🌙 Inactive | A Rust implementation of Lox from Crafting Interpreters |
| sasurau4/lox-rust | 5 | 🌙 Inactive | Interpreter for lox written by rust |
| lax | 4 | 🌙 Inactive | a lox interpreter |
| rox | 4 | 🌙 Inactive | A Rust port of Crafting Interpreters |
| cloxrs | 3 | 🌙 Inactive | Lox implementation written in Rust |
| yarli | 3 | 🌙 Inactive | Yet Another Rusty Lox Interpreter |
| nt591/lox-rust | 2 | 🌙 Inactive | A Rust implementation of the Crafting Interpreters bytecode VM |
| roxt | 2 | 🌙 Inactive | A Lox interpreter written in Rust |
*: Parcel is a large project of which the JavaScript transformer (written in Rust) is a small part. The "stars" number here reflects the whole project, which is broader than a programming language project.