Top Rust GitHub Repositories & Open Source Projects (2026)

🐚bash/POSIX-compatible shell implemented in Rust 🦀

Instant, controllable, local pre-trained AI models in Rust

Compile time static maps for Rust

Zero-overhead, terminal-native local-LLM runtime manager. Launches, supervises, and routes local models behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Apache DataFusion Ballista Distributed Query Engine

A rich git commit graph in your terminal, like magic 📚

Zedis: A blazing-fast, native Redis GUI built with Rust and GPUI.

A command-line tool for downloading APK files from various sources

EdegQuake 🌋 High-performance GraphRAG inspired from LightRag written in Rust; Transform documents into intelligent knowledge graphs for superior retrieval and generation

rust raft with improvements

FFmpeg GUI

Monorepo for StartOS, StartWRT, StartTunnel, start-sdk, start-docs, start-cli, start-registry, patch-db, and various shared libraries

A vector indexing library to bring fast, fresh and filtered search to your database

A collection of ansi/bbs related applications.

Cairo is the first Turing-complete language for creating provable programs for general computation.

A coding agent that evolves its own source, in public — 200 lines of Rust on day one, every commit since agent-written and tests-gated.

This library provides implementations of many algorithms and data structures that are useful for bioinformatics. All provided implementations are rigorously tested via continuous integration.

All of the official Tauri plugins in one place!

CLI and Rust libraries for low-level manipulation of WebAssembly modules

CLI for Agentic payments (x402, MPP, AP2).