Rust
Leaderboard for 7 October 2026
The biggest Rust projects on GitHub, the ones gaining stars fastest right now, and the same leaderboard a year ago. We have recorded it every day since December 2018.
Most starred today
- 1 ultraworkers/claw-code An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention. 195k
- 2 clash-verge-rev/clash-verge-rev A modern GUI client based on Tauri, designed to run in Windows, macOS and Linux for tailored proxy experience 150k +1.2k / 7d
- 3 farion1231/cc-switch A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Grok Build & Hermes Agent. Only official website: ccswitch.io 141k +1.6k / 7d
- 4 openai/codex Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal 128k +799 / 7d
- 5 rustdesk/rustdesk An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. 125k +486 / 7d
- 6 rust-lang/rust Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. 120k +336 / 7d
- 7 tauri-apps/tauri Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend. 112k +135 / 7d
- 8 denoland/deno A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. 109k +130 / 7d
- 9 ruvnet/RuView π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video. 97k +1.1k / 7d
- 10 oven-sh/bun Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one 96k +57 / 7d
- 11 zed-industries/zed Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. 91k +298 / 7d
- 12 astral-sh/uv An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. 90k +156 / 7d
- 13 rtk-ai/rtk CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies 83k +529 / 7d
- 14 unionlabs/union The trust-minimized, zero-knowledge bridging protocol, designed for censorship resistance, extremely high security, and usage in decentralized finance. 74k
- 15 BurntSushi/ripgrep ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore 69k +161 / 7d
- 16 dani-garcia/vaultwarden Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs 69k +310 / 7d
- 17 openinterpreter/openinterpreter A coding agent for open models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 69k +42 / 7d
- 18 alacritty/alacritty A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. 66k +30 / 7d
- 19 warpdotdev/warp Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal. 65k +93 / 7d
- 20 rust-lang/rustlings :crab: Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code! 64k +30 / 7d
- 21 tw93/Pake 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command. 62k +116 / 7d
- 22 FuelLabs/sway 🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts. 61k
- 23 sharkdp/bat A cat(1) clone with wings. 61k +80 / 7d
- 24 starship/starship ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! 60k +80 / 7d
- 25 rust-unofficial/awesome-rust A curated list of Rust code and resources. 60k +90 / 7d
Climbing fastest this week
A different population from the leaderboard above. These are ranked by stars gained, so a project going from 200 to 2,000 shows up here and can never appear on a top-100 list by total stars.
- 1 NVIDIA/OpenShell OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. +5.2k 15k total
- 2 t8y2/dbx 25 MB lightweight cross-platform database client for 100+ databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, SQL Server, and Dameng. Built-in AI, MCP Server, CLI, desktop and Docker. | 轻量级跨平台数据库管理工具,支持 MySQL、PostgreSQL、SQLite、Redis、MongoDB、达梦等 100+ 数据库,提供桌面端、Docker、CLI、内置 AI 助手和 MCP。 +3.2k 25k total
- 3 tinyhumansai/openhuman OpenHuman is the fastest, cheapest, most efficient open-source agent harness. Written in Rust +1.1k 42k total
- 4 zerx-lab/FluxDown Rust 驱动的多协议下载管理器,支持 HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent 磁力链接及 HLS/DASH 流媒体,智能多线程加速与浏览器无缝集成。精美界面,极致性能,永久免费,零广告。 +735 4.0k total
- 5 zeronsh/zeron A native control plane for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Devin and other coding agents. +621 3.1k total
- 6 Pumpkin-MC/Pumpkin Empowering everyone to host fast and efficient Minecraft servers +449 12k total
- 7 xingkongliang/skills-manager A lightweight desktop app to manage, sync, and organize AI agent skills across 50+ coding tools — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more. +392 5.7k total
- 8 JayWebtech/autoshorts AutoShorts is a local-first desktop application for turning long-form video or audio recordings into high-impact, vertical short-form clip candidates (9:16 portrait) with AI-powered viral moment ranking. +270 1.2k total
- 9 helix-editor/helix A post-modern modal text editor. +129 46k total
- 10 touchHLE/touchHLE High-level emulator for early iOS apps. This repo is used for issues, releases and CI. Submit patches at: https://review.gerrithub.io/admin/repos/touchHLE/touchHLE +47 4.0k total
A year ago today
The same leaderboard on 7 October 2025. 6 of today's top ten were not in it.
- 1 rust-lang/rust 107k
- 2 denoland/deno 105k
- 3 rustdesk/rustdesk 99k
- 4 tauri-apps/tauri 97k
- 5 unionlabs/union 75k
- 6 astral-sh/uv 69k
- 7 zed-industries/zed 67k
- 8 FuelLabs/sway 62k
- 9 alacritty/alacritty 61k
- 10 rust-lang/rustlings 60k
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