Top 10 Rust syntax-highlighting Projects

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1. bat

   1 207 52,228 9.3 Rust

   A cat(1) clone with wings.

   

   Project mention: Man pages are great, man readers are the problem | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-09

   I page man (and many other things) through bat[0] which improves my experience.

   [0]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

3. tailspin

   2 2 6,240 9.4 Rust

   🌀 A log file highlighter

   

4. syntect

   3 6 2,020 6.5 Rust

   Rust library for syntax highlighting using Sublime Text syntax definitions.

   

   Project mention: Wombat - Syntax Highlighting with Rust's Bat Called from Crystal | dev.to | 2025-01-15

   Bat uses a library called Syntect for syntax highlighting. However, Syntect is quite complex, so I thought it would be easier to use Bat directly as a library.

5. kibi

   4 4 1,657 8.5 Rust

   A text editor in ≤1024 lines of code, written in Rust

   

   Project mention: Kibi – A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-12

   https://github.com/ilai-deutel/kibi

   the repo is here btw. i appreciate that the dependency tree is appropriately minimal. also impressive how many comments are included in the source. Maybe they’re not counted towards the LOC?

6. hgrep

   5 2 474 7.8 Rust

   Grep with human-friendly search results

   

7. r3bl-open-core

   6 5 363 9.4 Rust

   TUI framework and developer productivity apps in Rust 🦀

   

8. hired

   7 6 121 6.0 Rust

   A modern take on 'ed'

   

9. CodeRabbit

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   CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

   

10. chroma_code

    8 1 22 4.7 Rust

    Make beautiful colored code listings in LaTeX with the power of TreeSitter.

    

11. makurust

    9 2 22 2.4 Rust

    Markdown to HTML converter written in Rust. Inspired by Katsuki Yuri's Makudaun Tool.

    

12. bat-c

    10 1 2 8.3 Rust

    C API for bat

    

    Project mention: Wombat - Syntax Highlighting with Rust's Bat Called from Crystal | dev.to | 2025-01-15

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