Rust

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Rust is an open-source programming language project on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license (permissive), with 121k stars. Its last push was today.

Stars: 121k
License: Apache-2.0
Activity: Active
Latest release: 1.99.1

Code on GitHub Website

Judgement

What it is: Developer tool
What it does: The Rust compiler and standard library for a systems language that guarantees memory safety without garbage collection.
Adopt it when: You need C-level performance with memory safety, for systems software, CLIs, services or WebAssembly.
Watch out: The learning curve is steep and compile times are long.
Ready for: Production-ready
Runs as: Command line
Built with: Rust and LLVM
How established: Established: started 16 years ago, latest release 1.99.1.
What the license allows: You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Rust → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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★ 76k Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed today
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★ 70k AGPL-3.0 Rust Active, pushed today
10
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★ 49k Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed today
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Complete system Production-ready You process enough payments to benefit from routing across several processors and have engineers to run it.
★ 46k Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed today
13
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Complete system Usable You want private, offline AI chat on your own computer without command-line setup.
★ 45k See repository Rust Active, pushed today
14
Qdrant qdrant
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Building block Production-ready You are building semantic search, RAG or recommendations and want a dedicated vector store that is simple to self-host.
★ 35k Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed today
15
Tokio tokio-rs
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★ 34k MIT Rust Active, pushed 2 days ago
16
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★ 33k Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed 4 days ago
17
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★ 32k Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed today
18
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Building block Production-ready You are building retrieval for an LLM app and want something simple to start with locally.
★ 30k Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed 3 days ago
19
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★ 29k MIT Python Active, pushed today
20
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★ 28k Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed today

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