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Rust is a mini landing page

Use this route to narrow the field to repositories that share the same runtime and toolchain assumptions. The first read should tell you who leads the lane, which project still looks fresh, and how concentrated the category shape really is.

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Rust rankings: how to read the ecosystem behind the stars

Rust delivers systems-level performance with memory safety guarantees, eliminating entire classes of bugs without a garbage collector. Loved by developers for six consecutive years in Stack Overflow surveys, Rust is gaining rapid adoption in web tooling, systems programming, and WebAssembly.

The Rust ecosystem is expanding rapidly: from web tooling (SWC, Turbopack, Deno) to operating systems, game engines, and blockchain infrastructure. Rust's "fearless concurrency" model and zero-cost abstractions make it a compelling choice for performance-critical applications where C/C++ traditionally dominated.

We rank the top 50 Rust repositories by total GitHub stars. The fast growth of Rust in developer tooling (replacing JavaScript-based build tools) is a key trend visible in these rankings.

Data is sourced from the GitHub REST API and updated daily. Rankings reflect cumulative star counts across each repository's lifetime and should be read as a discovery aid rather than a quality certification. See Methodology & Editorial Standards.

Rust rankings: how to read the ecosystem behind the stars

We rank the top 50 Rust repositories by total GitHub stars. The fast growth of Rust in developer tooling (replacing JavaScript-based build tools) is a key trend visible in these rankings.