Rust Terminal

Open-source Rust projects categorized as Terminal

Top 23 Rust Terminal Projects

  1. alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

    Project mention: Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-30

    I don't want to learn tmux to handle a feature that my OS already handles. If alacritty supported tabs (and was slightly less hostile, e.g. [0]) I'd be happy with it

    [0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3129

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  3. bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

    Project mention: Effortlessly Manage Your Notes with my Bash Script Featuring FZF Integration! | dev.to | 2025-01-18

    bat (for enhanced preview in search)

  4. fd

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

    Project mention: We Are Destroying Software | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-08
  5. fish-shell

    The user-friendly command line shell.

    Project mention: Tools for 2025 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-01

    I've probably been using fish shell [0] for close to 10 years now. When I need POSIX compliance or if I need to run a one-off bash command, I just call bash. It's exceedingly rare.

    Browsing through the documentation for Oils, it seems to be organized in a way that's very confusing. When you open the fish shell website it was two clear buttons for Tutorial and Documentation.

    [0] https://fishshell.com/

  6. hyperfine

    A command-line benchmarking tool

    Project mention: Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-18

    > On the flip side (making things more random as opposed to less), something that randomizes the initial stack pointer would be nice, as I've sometimes seen this go really, really wrong (renaming a binary from foo to foo_new made it run >1% slower!).

    This is something we do already. We set a `HYPERFINE_RANDOMIZED_ENVIRONMENT_OFFSET` environment variable with a random-length value: https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine/blob/87d77c861f1b6c761a...

  7. zellij

    A terminal workspace with batteries included

    Project mention: Install Zellij on WSL | dev.to | 2024-11-27

    Zellij is a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal. Similar programs are sometimes called "Terminal Multiplexers". repo https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij

  8. yazi

    💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

    Project mention: Switching Fully to Neovim | dev.to | 2025-02-05

    Additionally, I integrate several CLI tools into my work flow, such as lazygit for streamlined Git operations, yazi as a terminal file manager, tmux for session management, and lazydocker for handling Docker containers efficiently.

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  10. wezterm

    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

    Project mention: From iTerm To WezTerm | dev.to | 2025-01-09

    -- https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/3299#issuecomment-2145712082 wezterm.on("gui-startup", function(cmd) local active = wezterm.gui.screens().active local tab, pane, window = wezterm.mux.spawn_window(cmd or {}) window:gui_window():set_position(active.x, active.y) window:gui_window():set_inner_size(active.width, active.height) end)

  11. gitui

    Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

    Project mention: Gitui release 0.27 adds simple management of remotes | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-15
  12. spotify-tui

    Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀

    Project mention: Spotify TUI: Spotify for the Terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-30
  13. carbonyl

    Chromium running inside your terminal

    Project mention: Show HN: Consol3 – A 3D engine in the terminal that executes on the CPU | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-23

    supports WebGL over SSH/MoSH

    https://www.brow.sh/docs/introduction/ :

    > The terminal client updates and renders in realtime so that, for instance, you can watch videos. It uses the UTF-8 half-block trick () to get 2 colours from every character cell, thus simulating basic graphics.

    https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl :

    > Carbonyl originally started as html2svg and is now the runtime behind it.

    Always wondered how brew.sh added the brew sprite there; that's real nice.

    TIL that e.g. Kitty term can basically framebuffer modified Chrome?

    https://github.com/chase/awrit :

    > Yep, actual Chromium being rendered in your favorite terminal that supports the Kitty terminal graphics protocol.

    FWIW Cloudflare has clientless Remote Browser Isolation that also splits the browser at the rendering engine.

    A TUI Manim renderer would be neat. Re: Teaching math with Manim and interactive 3d: https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery/issues/99

    What would you add to make it easier to teach with this entirely CPU + software rendering codebase?

    What prompts for learning would you suggest?

    - Pixar in a Box, Wikipedia history of CG industry: https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-36265807

    - "Rotate a wireframe cube or the camera perspective with just 2d pixels to paint to; And then rotate the cube about a point other than the origin, and then move the camera while the cube is rotating"

    - OTOH, ManimML, Yellowbrick, and the ThreeJS Wave/Particle simulator might be neat with a slow terminal framebuffer too

  14. asciinema

    Terminal session recorder 📹

    Project mention: File Explorer is merged to Helix editor | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-24

    I agree. Capturing the interaction as a movie (like .mov file) makes it really difficult to understand what the user is doing. e.g. What keystrokes did the user press to finish this interaction. I wish folks would post screen grabs with tools like https://asciinema.org/ - this is what the helix-editor homepage uses to show the features. This is ideal for terminal apps.

    That said, I wish asciinema can also show the key strokes a an annotation with the ability for the viewer to pause on each keyboard interaction.

  15. eza

    A modern alternative to ls

    Project mention: 17 Essential CLI Tools to Boost Developer Productivity | dev.to | 2025-01-02

    eza

  16. ratatui

    A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨‍🍳🐀 https://ratatui.rs

    Project mention: Ratzilla | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-01

    I think this may lack a bit of context, so I'll try to fill in.

    This is a demo that was just showcased live by the author as part of their talk at FOSDEM'25: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5496-brin...

    The talk was centered on Ratatui (a TUI library in Rust, https://ratatui.rs/) now targeting terminals and web browsers with a shared approach. Video recording of the talk should appear online soon.

  17. bottom

    Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

    Project mention: Show HN: Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-26

    lazydocker as well. Also a big fan of bottom (https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom) , which surprisignly enough even though it has charts and everything, it consumes way fewer resources on my system compared to htop.

  18. grex

    A command-line tool and Rust library with Python bindings for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases

  19. sshx

    Fast, collaborative live terminal sharing over the web

  20. sd

    Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

    Project mention: SD: Intuitive find and replace CLI (sed alternative) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-07
  21. ht

    Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

    Project mention: Command Line Tools I Like (2022) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-09

    Is this what you're referring to?

    https://github.com/ducaale/xh

    Seems like maybe it's written in rust? Still looks slick!

  22. pastel

    A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

  23. viddy

    👀 A modern watch command. Time machine and pager etc.

    Project mention: Release of Viddy v1.0.0: Migration from Go to Rust | dev.to | 2024-08-22

    // https://github.com/sachaos/viddy/blob/4dd222edf739a672d4ca4bdd33036f524856722c/src/cli.rs#L96-L105 fn parse_duration_from_str(s: &str) -> Result { match humantime::parse_duration(s) { Ok(d) => Ok(Duration::from_std(d)?), Err(_) => { // If the input is only a number, we assume it's in seconds let n = s.parse::()?; Ok(Duration::milliseconds((n * 1000.0) as i64)) } } }

  24. Rio

    A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.

    Project mention: Ghostty 1.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-26
  25. SaaSHub

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

# Project Stars
1 alacritty 57,598
2 bat 50,981
3 fd 35,448
4 fish-shell 27,896
5 hyperfine 23,923
6 zellij 22,949
7 yazi 21,716
8 wezterm 19,139
9 gitui 19,065
10 spotify-tui 17,818
11 navi 15,446
12 carbonyl 14,925
13 asciinema 14,633
14 eza 13,900
15 ratatui 11,791
16 bottom 10,747
17 grex 7,384
18 sshx 6,247
19 sd 6,058
20 ht 6,048
21 pastel 5,216
22 viddy 4,870
23 Rio 4,593

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