Rust radar: libraries and frameworks

Momentum based on available 7-day snapshots for Rust: measured with two snapshots, estimated otherwise. Each value shows its own source window. This page reads stored snapshots only.

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Ranked by measured growth, normalized across sources. Raw values keep their source-specific window, shown under each tool; a change requires at least two snapshots from the last 7 days.

  1. 1

    Library
    UnknownLast commit: unavailable

    A generic serialization/deserialization framework

    • serialization
    • no_std
    • serde
    • no-std
    • encoding

    cratesmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install cargo add serde

    284 577 084crates.io downloads over 90 days+7 697 286 (+2.8 %)
  2. 2

    Library
    UnknownLast commit: unavailable

    Simple work-stealing parallelism for Rust

    • concurrency
    • parallel
    • thread
    • performance
    • join

    cratesmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install cargo add rayon

    116 018 426crates.io downloads over 90 days+2 340 376 (+2.1 %)
  3. 3

    Library
    UnknownLast commit: unavailable

    higher level HTTP client library

    • client
    • http
    • request
    • wasm
    • web-programming::http-client

    cratesmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install cargo add reqwest

    170 398 639crates.io downloads over 90 days+3 277 849 (+2.0 %)
  4. 4

    Library
    UnknownLast commit: unavailable

    An event-driven, non-blocking I/O platform for writing asynchronous I/O backed applications.

    • io
    • async
    • non-blocking
    • futures
    • asynchronous

    cratesmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install cargo add tokio

    211 567 815crates.io downloads over 90 days+3 434 746 (+1.7 %)
  5. 5

    Library
    UnknownLast commit: unavailable

    HTTP routing and request handling library that focuses on ergonomics and modularity

    • http
    • web
    • routing
    • network-programming
    • asynchronous

    cratesmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install cargo add axum

    110 024 664crates.io downloads over 90 days+1 668 445 (+1.5 %)
  6. 6

    Library
    UnknownLast commit: unavailable

    A simple to use, efficient, and full-featured Command Line Argument Parser

    • parser
    • argument
    • cli
    • parse
    • arg

    cratesmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install cargo add clap

    220 588 820crates.io downloads over 90 days+3 283 538 (+1.5 %)
  7. 7

    Library
    Active

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

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • packaging
    • python
    • resolver
    • uv

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    89 289GitHub stars+206 (+0.23 %)
  8. 8

    Library
    Active

    A fast, resilient, multi-source file retriever and download engine

    RustLicense: GPL-3.0
    • downloadmanager
    • iced
    • rust
    • rust-cli
    • rust-community

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    97GitHub stars+13 (+15.5 %)
  9. 9

    Library
    Active

    🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.

    RustLicense: GPL-3.0
    • chatgpt
    • claude
    • desktop
    • gemini
    • hight-performance

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    61 187GitHub stars+106 (+0.17 %)
  10. 10

    Library
    Active

    Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, and mobile.

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • android
    • css
    • desktop
    • html
    • ios

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    38 929GitHub stars+46 (+0.12 %)
  11. 11

    Library
    Active

    Publish Rust crates from CI with a Release PR.

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ci
    • hacktoberfest
    • release
    • rust

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 469GitHub stars+12 (+0.82 %)
  12. 12

    Library
    Active

    The registry for Rust crates

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • crate
    • crates
    • registry
    • rust
    • rustlang

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 066GitHub stars+9 (+0.85 %)
  13. 13

    Library
    Active

    Compose Multiplatform, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable.

    KotlinLicense: Apache-2.0
    • android
    • awt
    • compose
    • declarative-ui
    • desktop

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    19 329GitHub stars+11 (+0.06 %)
  14. 14

    Library
    Active

    Security advisory database for Rust crates published through crates.io

    • rust
    • security
    • security-advisories
    • security-audit
    • vulnerabilities

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 169GitHub stars+4 (+0.34 %)
  15. 15

    Library
    Active

    Scan your Rust crate for semver violations.

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      1 675GitHub stars+3 (+0.18 %)
    • 16

      Library
      Active

      Build and publish crates with pyo3, cffi and uniffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages

      RustLicense: Apache-2.0
      • cffi
      • cpython
      • cross-compile
      • hacktoberfest
      • manylinux

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      5 776GitHub stars+3 (+0.05 %)
    • 17

      Library
      Active

      Rock-solid YAML for Python, written in Rust.

      RustLicense: MIT
      • python
      • python-library
      • python3
      • rust
      • rustlang

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      85GitHub stars+1 (+1.2 %)
    • 18

      Library
      Active

      Cross platform window and framebuffer crate for Rust

      RustLicense: MIT
      • framebuffer
      • rust
      • rust-crate
      • window

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      1 207GitHub stars+2 (+0.17 %)
    • 19

      Library
      Active

      Node.js bindings ❤️ Rust crates

      RustLicense: MIT
      • bcrypt
      • crc32c
      • eslint
      • hash
      • jieba

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      1 469GitHub stars+2 (+0.14 %)
    • 20

      Library
      Active

      Rust crates supporting Apple platform development

      Rust
      • apple
      • macos
      • rust

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      849GitHub stars+1 (+0.12 %)
    • 21

      Library
      Active

      A Nix library for building cargo projects. Never build twice thanks to incremental artifact caching.

      NixLicense: MIT
      • cargo
      • crate
      • nix
      • nixos
      • nixpkgs

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      1 450GitHub stars+1 (+0.07 %)
    • 22

      Library
      Active

      Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.

      Python
      • batch-processing
      • data-analytics
      • data-pipelines
      • data-processing
      • dataflow

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      62 357GitHub stars-30 (-0.05 %)
    • 23

      Library
      UnknownLast commit: unavailable

      DataFrame library based on Apache Arrow

      • arrow
      • dataframe
      • query-engine

      cratesmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      Install cargo add polars

      2 686 629crates.io downloads over 90 days-3 892 (-0.14 %)
    • 24

      Library
      Active

      Cargo subcommand `release`: everything about releasing a rust crate.

      RustLicense: Apache-2.0
      • cargo
      • cargo-subcommand
      • rust

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      1 588GitHub starsstable
    • 25

      Library
      Active

      Visualize/analyze a Rust crate's internal structure

      RustLicense: MPL-2.0
      • cargo-commands
      • code-analysis-tool
      • developer-tools
      • rust
      • rust-tools

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      1 258GitHub starsstable