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Top 23 Rust Development tool Projects

  • just

    🤖 Just a command runner

    • Project mention: Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-25

    I started using just [0] on my projects and have been very happy so far. It is very similar to make but focused on commands rather than build outputs.

    Define your recipes and then you can compose them as needed.

    [0] https://github.com/casey/just

  • PyO3

    Rust bindings for the Python interpreter

    • Project mention: Encapsulation in Rust and Python | dev.to | 2024-04-05

    Integrating Rust into Python, Edward Wright, 2021-04-12 Examples for making rustpython run actual python code Calling Rust from Python using PyO3 Writing Python inside your Rust code — Part 1, 2020-04-17 RustPython, RustPython Rust for Python developers: Using Rust to optimize your Python code PyO3 (Rust bindings for Python) Musing About Pythonic Design Patterns In Rust, Teddy Rendahl, 2023-07-14

  • WorkOS

    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.

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  • Clippy

    A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/

    • Project mention: More than you've ever wanted to know about errors in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-23

    I couldn't find it in the API guidelines either. From what I understand, the idea is that any trait bounds, which includes generic type parameter bounds and lifetime bound on a type (struct or enum) would be repeated back in the impl block

    there is a nice discussion on this issue here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/1689

  • Rustup

    The Rust toolchain installer

    • Project mention: Problem with rust-analyzer in helix | /r/HelixEditor | 2023-06-05

    I got it to finally work by following this

  • rustfmt

    Format Rust code

    • Project mention: You can't do that because I hate you | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-28

    The author provides very surface-level criticism of two Rust tools, but they don't look into why those choices were made.

    With about five minutes of my time, I found out:

    wrap_comments was introduced in 2019 [0]. There are bugs in the implementation (it breaks Markdown tables), so the option hasn't been marked as stable. Progress on the issue has been spotty.

    --no-merge-sources is not trivial to re-implement [1]. The author has already explained why the flag no longer works -- Cargo integrated the command, but not all of the flags. This commit [2] explains why this functionality was removed in the first place.

    Rust is open source, so the author of this blog post could improve the state of the software they care about by championing these issues. The --no-merge-sources error message even encourages you to open an issue, presumably so that the authors of Cargo can gauge the importance of certain flags/features.

    You could even do something much simpler, like adding a comment to the related issues mentioning that you ran into these rough edges and that it made your life a little worse, or with a workaround that you found.

    Alternatively, you can continue to write about how much free software sucks.

    [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt/issues/3347

    [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/10344

    [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/commit/3842d8e6f20067f716...

  • Racer

    Rust Code Completion utility

  • cargo-make

    Rust task runner and build tool.

    • Project mention: Rust Tooling: 8 tools that will increase your productivity | dev.to | 2024-02-15

    cargo-make aims to be an extensive Rust-written task runner that additionally lets you define workflows to execute your tasks. You can install it using cargo install cargo-make.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • tarpaulin

    A code coverage tool for Rust projects

  • CodeLLDB

    A native debugger extension for VSCode based on LLDB

    • Project mention: custom pretty printer/debug helpers for C++ debugging? | /r/neovim | 2023-05-19

    Ok, so apparently here they are called 'data formatters' instead of pretty printers or debug helpers... https://github.com/vadimcn/codelldb/wiki/Custom-Data-Formatters

  • quickcheck

    Automated property based testing for Rust (with shrinking).

    • Project mention: Declarative Rust macros explanation | /r/rust | 2023-12-05

  • cbindgen

    A project for generating C bindings from Rust code

    • Project mention: Hello World in Go From Rust | dev.to | 2024-01-07

    Golang uses cgo to communicate with external C libraries and Rust uses FFI (Foreign function interfaces) to export C functions. Additionally, a library for automatically generating bindings can be used to generate the header files (.h). In our case, we'll only be exporting two C functions, so using cbindgen is overkill but we'll use it regardless because why not?  Firstly, we'll write the rust functions we want to export. We'll start by creating a new rust library:

  • rust-cpython

    Rust <-> Python bindings

  • proptest

    Hypothesis-like property testing for Rust

    • Project mention: What Are The Rust Crates You Use In Almost Every Project That They Are Practically An Extension of The Standard Library? | /r/rust | 2023-11-22

    proptest: Property-based testing with random input generation.

  • afl.rs

    🐇 Fuzzing Rust code with American Fuzzy Lop

  • cargo-release

    Cargo subcommand `release`: everything about releasing a rust crate.

    • Project mention: Changelog-Driven Releases | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23

    My problem with maintaining a changelog during development is it can serve as a source of merge conflicts. Instead, I follow Covnentional Commit style and manually write my changelog entries based on the commits. I have a tool [0] that can show me the relevant commits for a package in my repo and automates the entire release process, including doing sanity checks.

    I also feel like releasing from CI is hard, especially if you have multiple packages in a repo [1], including

    - You can't as easily introspect the process

    - You can't as easily recover from failure

    - Getting a lot of the nuance right, like handling releases concurrent to merging of PRs, is difficult

    - When the workflow is an ever-present "release PR" that you merge when ready has issues with selecting which packages to release and at what version

    I have been considering making a tool to generate changelogs from fragments. Been keeping notes at https://github.com/epage/epage.github.io/issues/23

    [0]: https://github.com/crate-ci/cargo-release

    [1]: https://github.com/MarcoIeni/release-plz/discussions/1019

  • cargo-update

    A cargo subcommand for checking and applying updates to installed executables

  • jni-rs

    Rust bindings to the Java Native Interface — JNI

  • xargo

    The sysroot manager that lets you build and customize `std`

  • MIRAI

    Rust mid-level IR Abstract Interpreter

  • clog-cli

    Generate beautiful changelogs from your Git commit history

  • cargo-modules

    Visualize/analyze a Rust crate's internal structure

  • Mockito

    HTTP mocking for Rust! (by lipanski)

  • j4rs

    Java for Rust

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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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Index

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

Project Stars
1 just 17,053
2 PyO3 10,997
3 Clippy 10,755
4 Rustup 5,881
5 rustfmt 5,761
6 Racer 3,362
7 cargo-make 2,392
8 tarpaulin 2,331
9 CodeLLDB 2,327
10 quickcheck 2,264
11 cbindgen 2,189
12 rust-cpython 1,800
13 proptest 1,578
14 afl.rs 1,568
15 cargo-release 1,244
16 cargo-update 1,125
17 jni-rs 1,110
18 xargo 1,079
19 MIRAI 959
20 clog-cli 834
21 cargo-modules 718
22 Mockito 623
23 j4rs 504

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