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]

Libraries and frameworks

• Actix — actor framework and high-performance web framework^[16]
• Diesel — ORM and query builder for Rust^[17]
• Rayon — data parallelism library for Rust^[18][19]
• Rocket — web framework focused on type safety^[20]
• Serde — framework for serialization and deserialization supporting JSON, YAML, TOML, and more.^[21]
• Tokio — asynchronous runtime for Rust^[22]

Real-time and embedded systems

• no_std Rust — core Rust programming without the standard library, for bare-metal development.^[23]
• Rust for Embedded — Rust support for embedded systems via the Embedded Working Group^[24][25]
• RTIC — real-time concurrency framework for Cortex-M microcontrollers^[26]
• Tock — embedded operating system written in Rust^[27]

Numerical and scientific computing

• Linfa — machine learning framework for Rust^[28][29]
• ndarray — array and linear algebra operations^[30][31]
• nalgebra — general-purpose linear algebra library^[32]
• Polars — DataFrame library for data analysis in Rust^[33]

Verification, debugging, and analysis

• Clippy — linter for Rust, providing warnings for common mistakes and idioms.^[34][35]
• Miri — interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation (MIR), used for checking undefined behavior.^[36]
• Rustfmt — formatting tool for Rust code^[37]
• Sanitizer — Rust integration with LLVM sanitizers for memory and thread safety^[38]

Testing frameworks

• Built-in test framework — included in the Rust compiler and Cargo^[39][40]
• Proptest — property-based testing framework for Rust^[41][42]
• QuickCheck for Rust — port of the Haskell QuickCheck property-testing library^[43]

Documentation and code generation

• Bindgen — generates Rust FFI bindings to C libraries^[44][45]
• Cbindgen — generates C headers from Rust code^[46][47]
• rustdoc — official Rust documentation generator^[48]

See also

• Lists of programming software development tools by language
• Outline of the Rust programming language

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