Top Rust GitHub Repositories & Open Source Projects (2026)

Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust

Rhai - An embedded scripting language for Rust.

A rust implementation of the Quip Protocol forked from Substrate

The Rust Implementation of the libp2p networking stack.

🛰️ Track token usage across AI coding agents from your terminal. 🏅 Global leaderboard with trillions of tokens tracked.

PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder.

Kanidm: A simple, secure, and fast identity management platform

The Elegant Parser

A Language Server for Postgres

Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API

An embedded key-value database in pure Rust

Hyperlight is a lightweight Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) designed to be embedded within applications. It enables safe execution of untrusted code within micro virtual machines with very low latency and minimal overhead.

A GPU compute-centric 2D renderer.

A protocol for connecting any editor to any agent

Run AI agents on real and isolated machines — own kernel, filesystem, and network — with <100ms boot. Local first, OCI compatible, pure Rust.

High-level emulator for iPhone OS apps. This repo is used for issues, releases and CI. Submit patches at: https://review.gerrithub.io/admin/repos/touchHLE/touchHLE

A proxy server for adding push to your API, used at the core of Fastly's Fanout service

WhatsApp REST API gateway in Rust. Multi-device and the official WhatsApp Cloud API behind one API: 230+ endpoints for messaging, templates, Flows, commerce, payments, calls, groups, webhooks and fleet ops. Multi-session, multi-DB, single binary.

cuda-oxide is a Rust-to-CUDA compiler that lets you write (SIMT) GPU kernels in safe(ish), idiomatic Rust. It compiles standard Rust code directly to PTX — no DSLs, no foreign language bindings, just Rust.

A model checker for Rust programs.