Rust radar: tools and trends

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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What’s changing

Of 20 comparable tools in Rust, 20 are increasing, 0 are stable, and 0 are declining. serde has the largest measured increase: +7763556 crates.io downloads over 90 days. These movements describe only changes in metrics collected over the period.

Measured period: 2026-08-27 to 2026-09-02

Tool ranking

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

    Skill
    Active

    For You Agent——AI 时代的个人随身数字人格。把你的模型、AI 账号、技能、提示词和工作方式，带到每一个 AI 工具里。

    Rust
    • agent-management
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agent
    • ai-assistant
    • ai-worker

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/fy-agent/fyagent ~/.claude/skills/fyagent

    904GitHub stars+437 (+93.6 %)
  2. 2

    App
    Active

    World's first open-source enterprise world model.

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-memory
    • bitemporal
    • graphrag
    • knowledge-base
    • knowledge-graph

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 348GitHub stars+516 (+62.0 %)
  3. 3

    Other
    Active

    Beautiful pdf components, built on Takumi and Forme. 100% Free, Zero config, one command setup.

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • forme
    • html-to-pdf
    • jsx
    • pdf
    • pdf-generation

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    918GitHub stars+42 (+4.8 %)
  4. 4

    Other
    Active

    A post-modern modal text editor.

    RustLicense: MPL-2.0
    • kakoune
    • rust
    • text-editor
    • vim

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    46 058GitHub stars+116 (+0.25 %)
  5. 5

    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 ↗

    99GitHub stars+11 (+12.5 %)
  6. 6

    MCP
    Active

    Open-source, local-first desktop AI research workbench for scientific computing with Python/R, MCP bioinformatics tools, SSH/WSL/GPU runtimes, and OpenAI/Anthropic models.

    RustLicense: AGPL-3.0
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agent
    • ai-assistant
    • ai-for-science
    • ai4science

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 081GitHub stars+33 (+3.1 %)
  7. 7

    Other
    Active

    The ready-to-use editor that nobody uses.

    RustLicense: MIT
    • apple-silicon
    • code-editor
    • developer-tools
    • development
    • egui

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    167GitHub stars+11 (+7.1 %)
  8. 8

    CLI
    Active

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • cli
    • command-line
    • filesystem
    • hacktoberfest
    • regex

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    44 266GitHub stars+52 (+0.12 %)
  9. 9

    Agent
    Active

    A terminal workbench in pure Rust: shells, persistent sessions, SSH, coding agents. GPU-rendered on Zed's gpui, VT core from Alacritty.

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai-agents
    • alacritty
    • claude-code
    • coding-agent
    • cross-platform

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    805GitHub stars+11 (+1.4 %)
  10. 10

    App
    Active

    One-click desktop GUI for the Aether censorship-circumvention tunnel — Tauri v2, React 19, Rust

    TypeScriptLicense: AGPL-3.0
    • anti-censorship
    • censorship-circumvention
    • desktop-app
    • proxy
    • react

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    913GitHub stars+11 (+1.2 %)
  11. 11

    Other
    Active

    Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings.

    TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • database
    • postgres
    • wasm

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    15 944GitHub stars+19 (+0.12 %)
  12. 12

    Other
    Active

    Virtual Machine for the Web

    JavaScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • cheerp
    • cheerpx
    • cpp
    • lwip
    • repl

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    17 370GitHub stars+17 (+0.10 %)
  13. 13

    Other
    Active

    The next-generation file converter. Open source, fully local* and free forever.

    SvelteLicense: AGPL-3.0
    • conversion
    • ffmpeg
    • imagemagick
    • magick
    • pandoc

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    15 489GitHub stars+16 (+0.10 %)
  14. 14

    Library
    Active

    The registry for Rust crates

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

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 067GitHub stars+9 (+0.85 %)
  15. 15

    CLI
    Active

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • cli
    • command-line
    • git
    • hacktoberfest
    • rust

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    60 337GitHub stars+14 (+0.02 %)
  16. 16

    Other
    Active

    Open-source Grok App — desktop workbench (GUI) for the local Grok Build CLI: sessions, projects, media, automations. Tauri 2.

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • ai
    • desktop
    • gui
    • rust
    • tauri

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 149GitHub stars+6 (+0.52 %)
  17. 17

    Other
    Active

    This crate provides an Egui integration for the Bevy game engine. 🇺🇦 Please support the Ukrainian army: https://savelife.in.ua/en/

    RustLicense: MIT
    • bevy
    • bevy-engine
    • egui

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    1 411GitHub stars+5 (+0.36 %)
  18. 18

    Other
    Active

    Playwright's API on a Rust CDP engine — Chromium browser automation for Python & Node, no driver subprocess. (Alpha)

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • browser-automation
    • cdp
    • chrome-devtools-protocol
    • chromium
    • napi-rs

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    866GitHub stars+4 (+0.46 %)
  19. 19

    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 777GitHub stars+5 (+0.09 %)
  20. 20

    Other
    Active

    Generate Nix fetcher calls from URLs [maintainer=@figsoda]

    RustLicense: MPL-2.0
    • bitbucket
    • codeberg
    • crate
    • crates
    • fetch

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    779GitHub stars+3 (+0.39 %)
  21. 21

    Other
    Active

    A retro game engine for Python

    Rust
    • game
    • game-development
    • game-engine
    • gamedev
    • graphics

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    17 786GitHub stars+3 (+0.02 %)
  22. 22

    Other
    Active

    ZigBee protocol stack and ZigBee Cluster Library in Rust

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • 802-15-4
    • embedded
    • microcontroller
    • no-std
    • rust

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    90GitHub stars+1 (+1.1 %)

Learning resources

Ranked by measured growth, normalized across sources. These resources remain available separately and do not take part in the main tool ranking.

  1. 1

    Reverse-Engineering

    Other
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A FREE comprehensive reverse engineering tutorial covering x86, x64, 32-bit/64-bit ARM, 8-bit AVR and 32-bit RISC-V architectures.

    AssemblyLicense: Apache-2.0
    • arm
    • assembly
    • assembly-language
    • assembly-language-programming
    • avr
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    14 213GitHub stars+41 (+0.29 %)
  2. 2

    rust-course

    Other
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    什么？你敢放心的把后背交给 AI? 我赌你不敢，那就来学学 AI 时代最酷、最安全、最快的语言吧。本书拥有全面且深入的讲解、生动贴切的示例、德芙般丝滑的内容，这可能是目前最用心的 Rust 中文学习教程 / Book

    Rust
    • book
    • chinese
    • course
    • deno
    • javascript
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    30 844GitHub stars+12 (+0.04 %)
  3. 3

    learning-rust-from-zero

    Other
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A tutorial for Rust beginners 給初學者的 Rust 教學

    Python
    • beginner-friendly
    • book
    • mdbook
    • rust
    • rust-lang
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    84GitHub stars+2 (+2.4 %)