Top 6 Rust beginner-friendly Projects

Rustlings

289 49,167 9.3 Rust

:crab: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code!

Project mention: GPUI 2 is now in production – Zed | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-04

Zed is great, have been using it to do the Rustlings exercises and learn Rust:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings
If you've been looking for an excuse to learn Rust, check it out.

hyperswitch

76 10,300 9.9 Rust

An open source payments switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable

Project mention: A better storage format for postman collections | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-14

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
skytable

21 2,249 9.2 Rust

Skytable is a modern scalable NoSQL database with BlueQL, designed for performance, scalability and flexibility. Skytable gives you spaces, models, data types, complex collections and more to build powerful experiences

Project mention: Show HN: Skytable's new NoSQL engine BlueQL with injection safety, improved perf | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-10

Hey HN!
I've been working on Skytable since 2020 and after several iterations from a simple K/V store, we've walked the path to this release. The goal of Skytable is to deliver a solid foundation for building data intensive applications.
Skytable's primary goal is performance and scale. Even with a query language it can outperform K/V stores which use simple commands (benchmarks will be shared in another post).
Several implementations in Skytable (especially around query evaluation and execution) are fundamentally different from SQL and even NoSQL counterparts and there are some entirely new concepts which might make it a little hard to grasp.
BlueQL is a very important part of Skytable and it employs some interesting concepts to try and reduce the surface for injection attacks and tries to be a modern and secure alternative to SQL.
- Source code: https://github.com/skytable/skytable

krust

5 29 5.4 Rust

counts k-mers, written in rust

Project mention: Feedback on a K-mer counter written in Rust | /r/learnbioinformatics | 2023-06-04

I’m not a bioinformatician, I’m just a software engineer. I made krust because I wanted to learn Rust. I’ve kept working on it and I’m surprised it has as many as 22 stars on GitHub, from people who seem to be in bioinformatics for the most part. So it seems like it’s somewhat interesting/useful. But I don’t know what would make this more/less useful for a specialist.

gust

2 6 9.0 Rust

Built in Rust and leveraging Docker, JSON, and SQLite (with future integration of a GraphQL API), 'gust' simplifies the process of preserving your recipes and creating comprehensive grocery shopping lists.
ChatUDP

1 4 2.3 Rust

A UDP based group chat app written in Rust ⚡

Project mention: ⚡ TCP Chat: Simple, quick and lightweight chat built over TCP and Rust | /r/rust | 2023-05-27

I built one with UDP: https://github.com/pavi2410/ChatUDP

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).