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A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust

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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.

Table of contents

Applications

Container

runc

  • youki - An experimental container runtime written in Rust

Games

Stockfish

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

Performance

jMeter

  • drill - A HTTP load testing application written in Rust

System tools

autojump / z

  • zoxide - A smarter cd command for your terminal.

awk

  • frawk - an efficient awk-like language

bash/PowerShell/fish

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

bc

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

cat

  • bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

cloc

  • tokei - Count your code, quickly.

coreboot

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

cp

  • xcp - An extended cp

cut

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

diff

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

dig

  • dog - A command-line DNS client.

du

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

find

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

fzf

  • skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!

GNU coreutils

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

hexdump

  • hexyl - A command-line hex viewer

httpie

  • xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

ls

  • 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 🎨

nvm

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

Midnight Commander

  • broot - A better way to navigate directories

ps

  • procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

rbenv

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

rename

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

rm

  • rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm

sed

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

strings

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

sudo

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

sysctl

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

time

  • hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool

tldr

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

top

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

uniq

  • huniq - Filter out duplicates on the command line.

xargs

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

yay

  • paru - Feature packed AUR helper

Terminal

Spaceship

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

termite

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

tmux

  • Zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

Text editors

Vim

  • Amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.

Text processing

grep

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

Utilities

codemod

  • fastmod - A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool

jq

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

lazygit

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

Toggl Track

Web

Reddit

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

teddit

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

Development tools

Command runners

make

  • just - A command runner and partial replacement for make

Linters

ESLint

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

Prettier

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

ShellCheck

Libraries

Email

mjml

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