A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust.

If you want to contribute, please read CONTRIBUTING.md.

I renamed the repository to "Awesome Alternatives in Rust". The original name was "Awesome Rewrite It In Rust". For more details, please refer to this issue.

• Applications
  • Container
  • Games
  • Performance
  • System tools
  • Terminal
  • Text editors
  • Text processing
  • Utilities
  • Web
• Development tools
  • Command runners
  • Linters
• Libraries
  • Email

• youki - An experimental container runtime written in Rust

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

• drill - A HTTP load testing application written in Rust

• zoxide - A smarter cd command for your terminal.

• frawk - an efficient awk-like language

• ion - A modern shell developed for RedoxOS. But is still capable on *nix platforms.
• nushell - An attractive structured shell

• cpc - Text calculator with support for units and conversion
• eva - a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)

• bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

• tokei - Count your code, quickly.

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

• xcp - An extended cp

• choose - A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk
• hck - A sharp cut(1) clone

• delta - A viewer for git and diff output
• difftastic - A structural diff that understands syntax

• dog - A command-line DNS client.

• dua - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
• dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust

• fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

• skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!

• coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

• hexyl - A command-line hex viewer

• xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

• exa - A replacement for 'ls'
• lsd - An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
• nat - ls alternative with useful info and a splash of color 🎨

• fnm - 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
• volta - Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡

• broot - A better way to navigate directories

• procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

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

• rnr - A command-line tool to batch rename files and directories

• rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm

• sad - CLI search and replace | Space Age seD
• sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

• stringsext - Find multi-byte-encoded strings in binary data

• please - sudo like program with regex support written in rust

• systeroid - A more powerful alternative to sysctl with a terminal user interface

• hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool

• navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
• tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

• bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
• ytop (no longer maintained) - A TUI system monitor written in Rust

• huniq - Filter out duplicates on the command line.

• rargs - A kind of xargs + awk with pattern-matching support.

• paru - Feature packed AUR helper

• starship - ☄️🌌 The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

• Alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

• Zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

• Amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.
• Helix — A post-modern modal text editor.

• ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

• fastmod - A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool

• jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool built with Rust 🦀

• gitui - Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in Rust 🦀

• Furtherance - Time-tracking app written in Rust

• Lemmy - 🐀 Building a federated alternative to reddit in rust

• libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust

• just - A command runner and partial replacement for make

• deno_lint - Blazing fast linter for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust
• RSLint - A (WIP) Extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript linter and Rust crate

• dprint - Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform written in Rust.

• Shellharden - The corrective bash syntax highlighter

• mrml - Blazing fast reimplementation of mjml in Rust (~200x faster)