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  1. Rustlings

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

    Project mention: My 2025 Tech Resolutions and My Plan for 2026 | dev.to | 2026-01-15

    Finish again the rustlings. ✅

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  3. hyperswitch

    Open source, composable payments platform | PCI compliant | SaaS and Self-host options | Enables connectivity to multiple payment, payout, fraud, vault and tokenization providers | Uplifts authorization with intelligent routing and revenue recovery | Reduce payment processing costs with cost observability | Reduces payment ops with reconciliation

    Project mention: Prism: A stateless payment integration library extracted from 4 years of production | dev.to | 2026-04-16

    We have been living in this world for years building Juspay Hyperswitch, an open-source and composable payments platform. At some point we had integrations for 100+ connectors. The integrations worked well — but they were locked inside our orchestrator, not usable by anyone who just needed to talk to Stripe or Adyen without adopting an entire platform.

  4. skytable

    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

  5. hyperswitch-card-vault

    Hyperswitch Card Vault is an open-source sensitive information storage system built on Rust.

  6. kmerust

    Bioinformatics 101 tool for counting unique k-length substrings in DNA

  7. ferrisume

  8. gust

    Simplifies the process of preserving your recipes and creating comprehensive grocery shopping lists

  9. ChatUDP

    A UDP based group chat app written in Rust ⚡

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).

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What are some of the best open-source beginner-friendly projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Rustlings 63,559
2 hyperswitch 43,291
3 skytable 2,665
4 hyperswitch-card-vault 61
5 kmerust 33
6 ferrisume 15
7 gust 6
8 ChatUDP 4

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