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: +9504925 crates.io downloads over 90 days. These movements describe only changes in metrics collected over the period.

Measured period: 2026-08-27 to 2026-09-03

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

    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 ↗

    2 428GitHub stars+1 596 (+191.8 %)
  2. 2

    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

    948GitHub stars+418 (+78.9 %)
  3. 3

    App
    Active

    Spotify, native and fast. One lightweight Rust app for your whole library, local playback, and Spotify Connect on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

    RustLicense: MIT
    • audio
    • cross-platform
    • desktop-app
    • egui
    • gui

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    2 344GitHub stars+767 (+48.6 %)
  4. 4

    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 505GitHub stars+32 (+0.21 %)
  5. 5

    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 158GitHub stars+15 (+1.3 %)
  6. 6

    CLI
    Active

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

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

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    60 354GitHub stars+31 (+0.05 %)
  7. 7

    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 %)
  8. 8

    CLI
    Active

    terminal mail client, mirror of https://git.meli-email.org/meli/meli.git https://crates.io/crates/meli

    RustLicense: GPL-3.0
    • client
    • email
    • imap
    • imap-client
    • jmap

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    887GitHub stars+4 (+0.45 %)
  9. 9

    Other
    Active

    A retro game engine for Python

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

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    17 788GitHub stars+5 (+0.03 %)
  10. 10

    Other
    Active

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

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

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    779GitHub stars+2 (+0.26 %)
  11. 11

    App
    Active

    System of record for how agents build software: Built-in rust harness & 20+ CLIs.

    TypeScriptLicense: AGPL-3.0
    • ai-coding-assistant
    • coding-agents
    • ide
    • local-first
    • reliability-engineering

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    2 659GitHub stars+2 (+0.08 %)
  12. 12

    Other
    Active

    Registry index for crates.io

    Tcl

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      739GitHub stars+1 (+0.14 %)
    • 13

      Library
      Active

      Rust crates supporting Apple platform development

      Rust
      • apple
      • macos
      • rust

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      849GitHub stars+1 (+0.12 %)
    • 14

      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 453GitHub stars+1 (+0.07 %)
    • 15

      Library
      Active

      Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies.

      Rust

        githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

        1 645GitHub stars+1 (+0.06 %)
      • 16

        Other
        Active

        Glommio is a thread-per-core crate that makes writing highly parallel asynchronous applications in a thread-per-core architecture easier for rustaceans.

        Rust
        • async
        • iouring
        • linux
        • rust
        • thread-per-core

        githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

        3 646GitHub stars+1 (+0.03 %)
      • 17

        Other
        Active

        An impish, cross-platform binary parsing crate, written in Rust

        RustLicense: MIT
        • archive
        • binary-analysis
        • cross-platform
        • elf
        • mach

        githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

        1 541GitHub starsstable
      • 18

        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 starsstable
      • 19

        Other
        Active

        This crate provides custom de/serialization helpers to use in combination with serde's `with`-annotation and with the improved `serde_as`-annotation.

        RustLicense: Apache-2.0
        • annotations
        • base64
        • chrono
        • crates
        • hacktoberfest

        githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

        853GitHub stars-1 (-0.12 %)
      • 20

        Other
        Active

        Dalaran — Apache-2.0, robotics-first visualization and data infrastructure for multimodal time-series. ROS 2 native, reads existing .rrd recordings. A hard fork of Rerun.

        RustLicense: Apache-2.0
        • apache2
        • computer-vision
        • lidar
        • pointcloud
        • python

        githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

        774GitHub stars-20 (-2.5 %)
      • 21

        CLI
        Active

        Rust-powered code intelligence CLI for AI coding agents. Builds call graphs and hybrid semantic search indexes (Dense + Sparse + RRF + Reranker) across 7 languages. Ships as native MCP tools for Claude Code and Codex CLI.

        RustLicense: MIT
        • agent-tools
        • ai-development-tools
        • ai-tools
        • bm25
        • call-graph

        githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

        764GitHub stars-1 (-0.13 %)
      • 22

        Other
        Active

        Rust D-Bus crate.

        Rust

          githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

          745GitHub starsstable
        • 23

          Other
          Active

          A general-purpose distributed memory cache system compatible with Memcached

          C
          • key-value-store
          • memcached
          • rust
          • rustlang

          githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

          318GitHub starsstable

        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

          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+7 (+0.02 %)
        2. 2

          azalea

          Library
          ActiveOpen source ↗

          A collection of Rust crates for making Minecraft bots, clients, and tools.

          RustLicense: MIT
          • azalea
          • bevy
          • bot
          • minecraft
          • minecraft-bot
          githubResourcemeasured growth
          766GitHub starsstable