Replacements for existing software written in Rust

• awesome-rewrite-it-in-rust

  6 1,556 8.5 Rust

  Discontinued A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust]

• frawk

  26 1,223 6.4 Rust

  an efficient awk-like language

Good to have a reference for such tools in one place. Added a PR for frawk [0] (awk alternative, WIP, haven't tried it yet)

[0] https://github.com/ezrosent/frawk

• 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.

  

• rust

  2,682 92,831 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

> Are their some common, widely used libraries driving this trend.

The rust community leadership made a strategic decision to pick 4 areas to suggest focus on. CLIs was one of them. (Scroll to “build it in rust” on https://www.rust-lang.org/)

I think this choice merits a case study in community technical leadership. Or at least a blog post by the author of https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/09/what-heartbleed-can-tea...

• tui-rs

  68 10,829 4.7 Rust

  Discontinued Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust

• Cursive

  22 4,105 7.5 Rust

  A Text User Interface library for the Rust programming language

* https://crates.io/crates/cursive

TUIs are in many ways more ergonomical, in particular they make experienced users more productive and they can help reduce RSI by limiting the need to move the mouse.

• modern-unix

  55 29,742 0.0

  A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

I compiled a list of modern replacements for unix commands [0]. While many of them are written in Rust, there are C, Go, and Python programs on that list as well, because I feel the point here is not what language it is written in, as long as it solves a problem, or is better in some way. Not a knock against this list though, some of these are really cool!

[0]: https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix

• clojure-rust-graalvm

  2 124 0.0 Rust

  An example of Clojure program calling a Rust library, all combined into one executable using GraalVM.

Perhaps someone already mentioned it here, but GraalVM lets you interop between Java and anything LLVM, and therefore Rust, without the JVM startup cost, with breakpoints across languages, even (as I understand it). Compile time is long, though.

borkdude has been releasing for some very cool stuff using this stuff. Here's a Clojure/Rust combo:

https://github.com/borkdude/clojure-rust-graalvm

• 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.

  

• rust-smallvec

  6 1,240 7.5 Rust

  "Small vector" optimization for Rust: store up to a small number of items on the stack

  

> the chances for triggering a buffer underflow / overflow exploit are zero

Doesn't the mere existence of unsafe make this untrue? From a quick google I can see at least one[1] so the chances are definitely a lot higher than zero

[1] https://github.com/servo/rust-smallvec/issues/252

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