/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

runc

  • youki - An experimental container runtime 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

  • nushell - An attractive structured shell

cat

  • bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

cloc

  • loc - Count lines of code quickly.
  • tokei - Count your code, quickly.

cut

  • choose - A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk

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

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 🎨

nvm

  • fnm - 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
  • volta - Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡

ps

  • procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

rbenv

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

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

time

  • hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool

tldr

  • 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  • ytop (no longer maintained) - A TUI system monitor written in Rust

Terminal

tmux

  • 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 gitignorei

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 🦀

Development tools

Command runners

  • just - A command runner and partial replacement for make

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

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