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

Mixed ranking: measured growth takes priority; entries without two snapshots are estimated. 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

    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 %)
  2. 2

    Other
    Active

    Registry index for crates.io

    Tcl

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      739GitHub stars+1 (+0.14 %)
    • 3

      Library
      Active

      Rust crates supporting Apple platform development

      Rust
      • apple
      • macos
      • rust

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      849GitHub stars+1 (+0.12 %)
    • 4

      Other
      Active

      A D-Bus bus (broker) implementation based on zbus

      Rust
      • communication
      • d-bus
      • dbus
      • ipc
      • rust

      githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

      155GitHub starsstable
    • 5

      Other
      Active

      IronClaw is an Agent OS focused on privacy, security and extensibility

      RustLicense: Apache-2.0
      • codeact
      • openclaw
      • rlm
      • rust
      • wasm

      githubestimated momentumOpen source ↗

      12 604GitHub stars—
    • 6

      Other
      Active

      🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

      RustLicense: Apache-2.0
      • async
      • await
      • mariadb
      • mysql
      • postgres

      githubestimated momentumOpen source ↗

      17 442GitHub stars—
    • 7

      Other
      Active

      Brotli compressor and decompressor written in rust that optionally avoids the stdlib

      RustLicense: BSD-3-Clause
      • brotli
      • brotli-compression
      • brotli-compressor
      • brotli-decompressor
      • brotli-encoder

      githubestimated momentumOpen source ↗

      943GitHub stars—
    • 8

      CLI
      Active

      🦀 A friendly terminal UI for rsync, written in Rust. Reusable profiles, an honest dry-run diff, and live progress, even over SSH.

      RustLicense: MIT
      • backup
      • cli
      • file-sync
      • ratatui
      • rsync

      githubestimated momentumOpen source ↗

      735GitHub stars—
    • 9

      Library
      Active

      A set of Rust crates for interacting with the Matrix chat network.

      RustLicense: MIT
      • chat
      • library
      • matrix-org
      • rust

      githubestimated momentumOpen source ↗

      732GitHub stars—
    • 10

      Other
      Active

      hyperlight-wasm is a rust library crate that enables Wasm Modules and components to be run inside lightweight Virtual Machine backed Sandbox. It is built on top of Hyperlight.

      RustLicense: Apache-2.0
      • wasm

      githubestimated momentumOpen source ↗

      723GitHub stars—
    • 11

      Library
      Active

      A high-performance, ergonomic web framework for Rust with native AI/LLM support.

      RustLicense: Apache-2.0
      • ai-native
      • api-framework
      • async
      • backend
      • developer-tools

      githubestimated momentumOpen source ↗

      61GitHub stars—

    Learning resources

    Estimated ranking: fewer than two daily snapshots are not enough to measure growth. These resources remain available separately and do not take part in the main tool ranking.

    1. 1

      rust-malware-gallery

      Other
      ActiveOpen source ↗

      A collection of malware families and malware samples which use the Rust programming language.

      • cybersecurity
      • malware
      • malware-analysis
      • malware-research
      • malware-samples
      githubResourceestimated momentum
      232GitHub stars—