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A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust

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bvaisvil/zenith

Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cpu #disk #linux #macos #process-monitor #terminal-application

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-16
License: MIT
Issues: 41 open

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Forks: 82
Commits: 565 commits
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rslint/rslint

A (WIP) Extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript linter and Rust crate

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Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#javascript #javascript-linter #linter #parallel #parser #rust

Updated: 2023-03-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-07
License: MIT
Issues: 40 open

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Forks: 79
Commits: 423 commits
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fcsonline/drill

Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust

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Rust Express Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#http #jmeter #performance #performance-testing #rust #tester

Updated: 2026-06-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-18
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 36 open

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Forks: 116
Commits: 324 commits
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theryangeary/choose

A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut (and sometimes awk)

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Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-06-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-02
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 5 open

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Forks: 48
Commits: 164 commits
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cjbassi/ytop

A TUI system monitor written in Rust

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Rust Cargo

Updated: 2020-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-20
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

2,161

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Forks: 86
Commits: 230 commits
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ms-jpq/sad

CLI search and replace | Space Age seD

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Rust Cargo pip

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #diff #editing #fzf #rust

Updated: 2026-05-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-07
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

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Forks: 29
Commits: 2,089 commits
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facebookincubator/fastmod

A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool. Assists with large-scale codebase refactors via regex-based find and replace with human oversight and occasional intervention.

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #command-line-tool #find-and-replace #replace #rust

Updated: 2026-04-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-18
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 16 open

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Forks: 55
Commits: 78 commits
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oreboot/oreboot

oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bootloader #firmware #hacktoberfest #linux #oreboot #os

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-04-15
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 64 open

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Forks: 114
Commits: 29,214 commits
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nivekuil/rip

A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#trash

Updated: 2024-04-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-08-31
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 26 open

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Forks: 67
Commits: 218 commits
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yamafaktory/jql

A JSON Query Language CLI tool

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cargo #cli #devops-tools #json #rust #rustlang

Updated: 2026-03-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-02
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

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Forks: 32
Commits: 577 commits
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redox-os/ion

Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/ion

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Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-05-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-10-07
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

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Forks: 141
Commits: 2,216 commits
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denoland/deno_lint

Blazing fast linter for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust

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Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#deno #javascript #linters #typescript

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-27
License: MIT
Issues: 168 open

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Forks: 187
Commits: 1,021 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mxsm/rocketmq-rust

🚀Apache RocketMQ build in Rust🦀. Faster, safer, and with lower memory usage. ⭐ Star to support our work❤️!

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Rust Axum React Tailwind CSS Tauri Cargo npm

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#cloud-native #messaging #rocketmq #rocketmq-rust #rocketmq-rust-client #rocketmq-rust-sdk

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-13
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 17 open

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Forks: 242
Commits: 4,641 commits
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orhun/systeroid

A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface 🐧

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #kernel-parameters #linux #linux-kernel #linux-tools #procfs

Updated: 2026-01-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-09-24
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 13 open

1,460

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Forks: 29
Commits: 661 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ezrosent/frawk

an efficient awk-like language

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2025-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-23
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 34 open

1,312

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Forks: 42
Commits: 687 commits
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willdoescode/nat

`ls` alternative with useful info and a splash of color 🎨

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cargo #cli #command-line-tool #easy-to-use #hacktoberfest #ls

Updated: 2021-05-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-22
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,264

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 233 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lasantosr/intelli-shell

Like IntelliSense, but for shells

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#autocomplete #bash #bookmark #cli #command-line #fish

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-01-20
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 5 open

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Forks: 23
Commits: 158 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tarka/xcp

An extended `cp`

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#command-line #copy-files #linux #solid-state-disks #sparse-files

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-04
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 18 open

924

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Forks: 33
Commits: 803 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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oppiliappan/eva

a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#calculator #cli #hacktoberfest #rust

Updated: 2025-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-24
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

909

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sstadick/hck

A sharp cut(1) clone.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#command-line #rust #text-processing

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-06-23
License: Unlicense
Issues: 7 open

741

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 223 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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TaKO8Ki/frum

A little bit fast and modern Ruby version manager written in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#farm #rbenv #ruby #rust #version-manager

Updated: 2022-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-08
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

654

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ismaelgv/rnr

A command-line tool to batch rename files and directories

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#rename-files #rust

Updated: 2026-03-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-11
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

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stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lotabout/rargs

xargs + awk with pattern matching support. `ls *.bak | rargs -p '(.*)\.bak' mv {0} {1}`

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2023-07-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-08
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

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Forks: 20
Commits: 51 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pleco-rs/Pleco

A Rust-based re-write of the Stockfish Chess Engine

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#ai #board #bot #chess #chess-engine #crates

Updated: 2026-02-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-12
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 11 open

432

stars

Forks: 44
Commits: 683 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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unobserved-io/Furtherance

Track your time without being tracked

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-02-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-02-18
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

393

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 906 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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koraa/huniq

Filter out duplicates on the command line. Replacement for `sort | uniq` optimized for speed (10x faster) when sorting is not needed.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #rust #tools

Updated: 2024-01-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-12
License: Unknown
Issues: 10 open

265

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 63 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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probablykasper/cpc

Text calculator with support for units and conversion

Stack

Rust Svelte SvelteKit Tailwind CSS Vite Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#calculator #cli #conversion #converter #library #math

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-12-05
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

161

stars

Forks: 14
Commits: 303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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getreu/stringsext

Find multi-byte-encoded strings in binary data (Gitlab mirror).

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#forensics #rust #string-search #unicode

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-26
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

131

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Forks: 9
Commits: 208 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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