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.
- youki - An experimental container runtime written in Rust
- Pleco - A Rust-based re-write of the Stockfish Chess Engine
- drill - A HTTP load testing application written in Rust
- zoxide - A smarter cd command for your terminal.
- frawk - an efficient awk-like language
- ion - A modern shell developed for RedoxOS. But is still capable on *nix platforms.
- nushell - An attractive structured shell
- cpc - Text calculator with support for units and conversion
- eva - a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)
- 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.
- xcp - An extended
cp
- choose - A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk
- hck - A sharp cut(1) clone
- delta - A viewer for git and diff output
- difftastic - A structural diff that understands syntax
- dog - A command-line DNS client.
- dua - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
- dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust
- fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
- skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!
- coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
- hexyl - A command-line hex viewer
- xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
- exa - A replacement for 'ls'
- lsd - An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
- nat -
lsalternative 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
- procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust
- frum - A little bit fast and modern Ruby version manager written in Rust
- rnr - A command-line tool to batch rename files and directories
- rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm
- stringsext - Find multi-byte-encoded strings in binary data
- please -
sudolike program with regex support written in rust
- systeroid - A more powerful alternative to
sysctlwith a terminal user interface
- hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool
- navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
- tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
- bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
- ytop (no longer maintained) - A TUI system monitor written in Rust
- huniq - Filter out duplicates on the command line.
- rargs - A kind of xargs + awk with pattern-matching support.
- paru - Feature packed AUR helper
- 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
- Amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.
- ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
- 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 🦀
- Furtherance - Time-tracking app written in Rust
- Lemmy - 🐀 Building a federated alternative to reddit in rust
- libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
- just - A command runner and partial replacement for
make
- 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.
- Shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter
- mrml - Blazing fast reimplementation of mjml in Rust (~200x faster)