/awesome-alternatives-in-rust

A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust

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Awesome Alternatives in Rust

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

If you want to contribute, please read CONTRIBUTING.md.

I renamed the repository to "Awesome Alternatives in Rust". The original name was "Awesome Rewrite It In Rust". For more details, please refer to this issue.

Table of contents

Applications

Container

  • youki - An experimental container runtime written in Rust

Games

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

Performance

  • 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.
  • tokei - Count your code, quickly.
  • 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'
  • skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!
  • coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

hexdump

  • hexyl - A command-line hex viewer
  • xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

ls

  • exa - 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 🎨
  • fnm - 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
  • volta - Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡
  • broot - A better way to navigate directories

ps

  • procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust
  • 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
  • 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

uniq

  • huniq - Filter out duplicates on the command line.

xargs

  • rargs - A kind of xargs + awk with pattern-matching support.
  • paru - Feature packed AUR helper

Terminal

  • starship - ☄️🌌 The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
  • Alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
  • Zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

Text editors

Vim

  • Amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.

Text processing

grep

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

Utilities

  • fastmod - A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool
  • jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool built with Rust 🦀
  • gitui - Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in Rust 🦀

Web

Reddit

  • Lemmy - 🐀 Building a federated alternative to reddit in rust
  • libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust

Development tools

Command runners

make

  • just - A command runner and partial replacement for make

Linters

  • deno_lint - Blazing fast linter for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust
  • RSLint - A (WIP) Extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript linter and Rust crate
  • dprint - Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform written in Rust.

Libraries

Email

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