Top 20 open source projects in the Rust programming language

ultraworkers/claw-code

An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.

194,898 stars 107,857 forks1 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-19MIT

clash-verge-rev/clash-verge-rev

A modern GUI client based on Tauri, designed to run in Windows, macOS and Linux for tailored proxy experience

152,705 stars 10,962 forks535 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20GPL-3.0

farion1231/cc-switch

A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Grok Build & Hermes Agent. Only official website: ccswitch.io

146,719 stars 9,685 forks1,488 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20MIT

openai/codex

Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

130,445 stars 20,531 forks23,700 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20Apache-2.0

rustdesk/rustdesk

An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.

126,418 stars 19,861 forks200 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20AGPL-3.0

rust-lang/rust

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

120,651 stars 19,145 forks12,614 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20Apache-2.0

tauri-apps/tauri

Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.

112,045 stars 4,107 forks1,485 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20Apache-2.0

denoland/deno

A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

108,723 stars 6,502 forks1,720 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-07MIT

ruvnet/RuView

π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.

98,890 stars 12,940 forks456 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20MIT

oven-sh/bun

Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

96,312 stars 5,156 forks9,343 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20NOASSERTION

zed-industries/zed

Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

91,957 stars 11,134 forks3,111 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20NOASSERTION

astral-sh/uv

An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

90,931 stars 3,676 forks2,982 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20Apache-2.0

rtk-ai/rtk

CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies

84,051 stars 5,338 forks1,550 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20Apache-2.0

pbakaus/impeccable

The design language that makes your AI harness better at design.

83,582 stars 5,056 forks45 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20Apache-2.0

unionlabs/union

The trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol, designed for censorship resistance, extremely high security, and usage in decentralized finance.

73,733 stars 3,893 forks196 open issuesRustlast push 2026-07-25Apache-2.0

dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

69,341 stars 3,353 forks103 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-16AGPL-3.0

BurntSushi/ripgrep

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

69,269 stars 5,868 forks219 open issuesRustlast push 2026-08-04Unlicense

storytold/photocraft

PhotoCraft: An open-source, photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust

69,192 stars 12,189 forks2,913 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-20Apache-2.0

openinterpreter/openinterpreter

A coding agent for open models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3

68,618 stars 5,908 forks19 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-11Apache-2.0

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alacritty/alacritty

A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

66,007 stars 3,653 forks342 open issuesRustlast push 2026-10-16Apache-2.0