Rust virus-scanning Projects

Raspirus

3 76 9.8 Rust

A user- and resources-friendly signatures-based malware scanner

Project mention: Success stories with Rust? | /r/rust | 2023-11-10

About a year ago I went to create an open-source malware Scanner. I wanted it to be fast and reliable, but I didn't really like C and C++ and so the only option for me was Python. Python made the development fast, but the app slow and heavy. Around that time I discovered the existence of Rust and that increased the speed of the scanner drastically, I therefore continued developing the project in Rust. It took me about a year to learn Rust (coming from a web and Python background), but it's not too complicated once you get into it. Also it's really fast and the cargo CLI helps a lot in keeping the code clean and efficient. The only thing stopping me from going 100% Rust on the project is the lack of stable UI frameworks, so I'm using Tauri for that right now. Nonetheless, in the timespan of about a year, I managed to learn the principles of Rust and build an open-source malware scanner which has 57 stars and about 900 downloads (at the moment of writing) and I'm quite proud of it. Here is the link to it if you are interested: https://github.com/Raspirus/Raspirus

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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.

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