Looking for a small boring rust project to help my learning.

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InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.
Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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  1. advent-of-code-jq

    Solving Advent of Code with jq

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. num2words

    Convert numbers like 42 to forty-two (by Ballasi)

    here’s a direct link to the github: https://github.com/Ballasi/num2words

  4. rust_kanban

    A kanban board for the terminal built with ❤️ in Rust

    rust-kanban

  5. Rust-GCode-Parser

    A G-Code Parser written in Rust

  6. asteroids

    Look at "Hands On Rust" book. I've been leraning rust by creating small arcade video games Not proud of the state of this project but you can take a look at the asteroids I've made in rust https://github.com/develm/asteroids

  7. achat

    A collection of simple modules which showcase simple use of tasks, channels, and other tokio primitives to implement simple networking applications. Purely educational purposes.

  8. rash-shell

    A bourne shell written in rust

    There are several shell projects that could use some contributions to revive them. Referencing just randomly rash-shell: https://github.com/absurdhero/rash-shell

  9. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  10. somo

    Socket Monitor for Linux: A prettier and simpler alternative to netstat or ss for socket monitoring with the ability to scan for malicious IP addresses.

    Hey, I recently created a small proejct also for learning Rust. It's called "somo", its' basically a prettier and easier alternative to the "netstat" or "ss" command to display current connections on a linux system. I don't know if it needs more features but maybe you find something to improve... here is the repo: https://github.com/theopfr/somo

  11. rust-brotli

    Brotli compressor and decompressor written in rust that optionally avoids the stdlib

    rust-brotli (could use example code for multithreaded compression)

  12. lv_binding_rust

    LVGL bindings for Rust. A powerful and easy-to-use embedded GUI with many widgets, advanced visual effects (opacity, antialiasing, animations) and low memory requirements (16K RAM, 64K Flash).

    LVGL - Open-source Embedded GUI Library in Rust is happy to accept contributions (there is a lot to be done, see the discussion in Github issues)

  13. coreutils

    Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

    uutils /coreutils is also a great project. It has many contributors, and it also is a great resource to learn.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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