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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.

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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

  • Cranelift — code generator and JIT compiler that can be used to compile Rust through Wasmtime and experimental backends1
  • LLVM2
  • 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

  • CLion / IntelliJ IDEA — with the official Rust plugin maintained by JetBrains5
  • Emacs — support via rustic mode and rust-mode67
  • Kate — basic Rust support via syntax highlighting and plugins
  • Neovim / Vim — Rust support through plugins like rust.vim8 and coc-rust-analyzer9
  • RustRover — JetBrains IDE focused on Rust development
  • Visual Studio Code — Rust support via the Rust Analyzer language server10
  • Zed
  • Rust Development Studio - Web based IDE for Rust written in Rust 11

Package managers and build systems

  • Bazel — build system with community support for Rust rules12
  • Cargo — Rust package manager and build tool, included with Rust distribution.13
  • Crates.io — official package registry for Rust libraries and applications14
  • Rustup — toolchain installer and version manager for Rust1516

Libraries and frameworks

  • Actix — actor framework and high-performance web framework17
  • Diesel — ORM and query builder for Rust18
  • Rayon — data parallelism library for Rust1920
  • Rocket — web framework focused on type safety21
  • Serde — framework for serialization and deserialization supporting JSON, YAML, TOML, and more.22
  • Tokio — asynchronous runtime for Rust23

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 Group2526
  • RTIC — real-time concurrency framework for Cortex-M microcontrollers27
  • Tock — embedded operating system written in Rust28

Numerical and scientific computing

  • Linfa — machine learning framework for Rust2930
  • ndarray — array and linear algebra operations3132
  • nalgebra — general-purpose linear algebra library33
  • Polars — DataFrame library for data analysis in Rust34

Verification, debugging, and analysis

  • Clippy — linter for Rust, providing warnings for common mistakes and idioms.3536
  • Miri — interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation (MIR), used for checking undefined behavior.37
  • Rustfmt — formatting tool for Rust code38
  • Sanitizer — Rust integration with LLVM sanitizers for memory and thread safety39

Testing frameworks

  • Built-in test framework — included in the Rust compiler and Cargo4041
  • Proptest — property-based testing framework for Rust4243
  • QuickCheck for Rust — port of the Haskell QuickCheck property-testing library44

Documentation and code generation

  • Bindgen — generates Rust FFI bindings to C libraries4546
  • Cbindgen — generates C headers from Rust code4748
  • rustdoc — official Rust documentation generator49
See also

See also

External links
References

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://github.com/vernisaz/rust_dev_studio
  12. https://bazel.build/
  13. https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/
  14. https://crates.io/
  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/