Top 9 Rust syntax-highlighting Projects

bat

195 46,497 9.5 Rust

A cat(1) clone with wings.

Project mention: Hired: A Modern Take on 'Ed' | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-13

That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that.
[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

tailspin

2 5,058 9.6 Rust

🌀 A log file highlighter

Project mention: FLaNK Stack Weekly 06 Nov 2023 | dev.to | 2023-11-06

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.
syntect

5 1,799 7.1 Rust

Rust library for syntax highlighting using Sublime Text syntax definitions.

Project mention: Documentation generators and custom syntax highlighting | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 2023-05-05

Zola (https://www.getzola.org/) can generate from markdown-ish files nice looking documentation websites (and also RSS feeds), it uses syntect (https://github.com/trishume/syntect) which supports sublime syntax highlight files. For github readme I don't have a solution besides using a png.

kibi

3 1,373 7.6 Rust

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

Project mention: Micro – A Modern Alternative to Nano | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-17

hgrep

2 410 8.1 Rust

Grep with human-friendly search results
r3bl-open-core

5 265 9.5 Rust

TUI framework and developer productivity apps in Rust 🦀
hired

6 117 6.0 Rust

A modern take on 'ed'

Project mention: Hired: A Modern Take on 'Ed' | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-13

InfluxDB

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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.
makurust

2 17 1.7 Rust

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

1 15 5.5 Rust

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

Project mention: Introducing "chromacode": tool to generate colored syntax-highlighted listings powered by TreeSitter. | /r/LaTeX | 2023-08-20

Here is the repo: https://github.com/TomLebeda/chroma_code

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).