Community libraries

See also:

• Awesome Rust
• Travis CI Status
• Rust Kit Library Browser

Audio

See Computer Graphics and Game Development.

Collections

See Containers.

Compression

We want compression/decompression support for TAR and ZIP file formats.

• alexcrichton/rust-compress: compression algorithms, all written in rust
• erickt/rustzlib: libzlib bindings
• thestinger/rust-snappy: libsnappy bindings

Computation

See also Mathematics

• GMP
  • thestinger/rust-gmp
• OpenCL
  • eholk/rust-opencl: OpenCL bindings

Concurrency

• task management, actor, OTP, Bikeshed mapreduce, pools

Crypto

• DaGenix/rust-crypto:
• LibNSS
  • mletterle/rust-nss
• libsodium
  • dnaq/sodiumoxide
• OpenSSL
  • sfackler/rust-openssl:

Database Access

• NoSql
  • LevelDB
    • thestinger/rust-leveldb
  • LMDB
    • vhbit/lmdb-rs
  • MongoDB
    • 10gen-interns/mongo-rust-driver-prototype
  • Redis
    • mitsuhiko/redis-rs
    • mneumann/rust-redis
• SQL
  • wycats/rust-arel: An in-progress port of the Ruby SQL building library arel
  • MySql
    • blackbeam/rust-mysql-simple:
  • PostgreSql
    • sfackler/rust-postgres:
  • Sqlite
    • linuxfood/rustsqlite: Sqlite3 bindings

Date and Time

Wanted library: Lib datetime

• lifthrasiir/rust-chrono
• luisbg/rust-datetime
• tedhorst/rust_datetime

Embedded Languages

• Lua
  • kballard/rust-lua (Lua 5.1):
  • tomaka/rust-hl-lua (Lua 5.2)
• Python
  • lukemetz/rustpy

Encoding

• Base64
• Cap'n Proto
  • dwrensha/capnproto-rust:
• Character Encoding
  • lifthrasiir/rust-encoding:
• CSV
  • BurntSushi/rust-csv:
  • Geal/rust-csv:
• Erlang External Term Format (about)
  • seriyps/rust-erl-ext
  • LeebDeveloper/retf
• HTML
  • veddan/rust-htmlescape:
• JSON
• MsgPck
  • mneumann/rust-msgpack:
• ProtocolBuffers
  • stepancheg/rust-protobuf:
  • tildeio/buffoon
• S-Expressions
  • darkf/rust_sexpr
• TOML
  • mneumann/rust-toml:
• Tnetstring
  • erickt/rust-tnetstring:
• XML
  • bjz/sax-rs: bindings to libxml2's SAX parser
  • DanielFath/xml-parser: A hybrid pull, DOM parser written in pure Rust
  • Florob/RustyXML: an XML parser written in Rust
  • netvl/rust-xml: a streaming XML library

Graphics

• Gnuplot

  • [SiegeLord/RustGnuplot] (https://github.com/SiegeLord/RustGnuplot)

• Images

  • PistonDevelopers/image: Encoding and decoding images in pure Rust

See also Computer Graphics and Game Development.

GUI

• Cocoa
  • mozilla-servo/rust-cocoa
• Conrod
  • PistonDevelopers/conrod
• Gtk
  • JeremyLetang/rgtk
• ncurses
  • drhodes/rust-ncurses
  • eevee/amulet
  • jeaye/ncurses-rs:
  • pnkfelix/rust-curses
• Termbox
  • gchp/rustbox
  • apribadi/rust-termbox
• wxWidgets
  • kenz-gelsoft/wxRust:

IO

• AIO, SIO, stdio
• filesystem
• path manipulation
• <> or fileinput.
• timers

Localizability

• one aspect of L10n is to map a key to a text, based on the current locale (eg Java's ResourceBundle or GNU gettext)
• another aspect is to format a string based on the current locale (eg Java's MessageFormat)
• See issue #4630

Mathematics

• bluss/rust-ndarray (N-dimensional array with linear algebra)
• bjz/cgmath-rs (Linear algebra and math library for graphics)
• cmr/linalg (Toy/tinkering linear algebra library)

Conversions

• uwap/unitr (A unit conversion library)

Misc

• low-level OS services
  • zargony/rust-fuse: Library for filesystems in userspace (FUSE)
• Simple search on a filesystem (eg Ruby's glob)
• unit testing
• FFI, ctypes
• dlopen, os processes
• standard predicates
• text, numeric, sorted
• error-trapping wrappers, in-place task?
• Consistent error handling
• quotas, accounting
• reflection
• command-line handling
  • tailhook/rust-argparse

Networking

• GUID
• UUID
• NanoMsg
  • glycerine/rust-nanomsg
• ZeroMQ
  • erickt/rust-zmq:
• STOMP
  • zslayton/stomp-rs:
• SSH
  • alexcrichton/ssh2-rs:

Operating system specific

• Windows
  • klutzy/rust-windows: Win32/Win64 wrapper for Rust

Parser Generator

• erickt/ragel
• jesse99/rparse
• kevinmehall/rust-peg
• Valloric/nailed: A Rust PEG parser generator
• ptal/Rust.peg: Parser and AST generator, on-going work.

Random Numbers

• random

Regular Expressions

See the regex crate.

• glennsl/rust-re
• sanxiyn/rree
• PCRE
  • cadencemarseille/rust-pcre:
  • erickt/rustpcre
  • uasi/rust-pcre:
• re2
  • nickdesaulniers/rust-re2

String manipulation

• Slicing w/o copy, stringref
• Ropes
• Tokenizer
• Unicode
  • Unicode
  • Convertions between text encodings. Ideally, with a customizable way of handling conversion errors.
  • Unicode normalization (NFD, NFC, NFKD, NFKC)
  • Collator (locale sensitive string comparison), with a configurable degree of strictness

Template engine

• Mustache
  • erickt/rust-mustache:

Testing

• QuickCheck
  • mcandre/rustcheck
  • BurntSushi/quickcheck:

Web Programming

See also http://arewewebyet.com/

• common client + server functionality
  • chris-morgan/rust-http: Superceeded by Teepee
  • teepee/teepee
  • SimonSapin/rust-url
  • url.rs
• client
  • andelf/rust-httpc
  • carllerche/curl-rust
• server framework
  • conduit-rust/conduit
  • Earlz/rustymvc
  • erickt/rust-mongrel2: bindings for the Mongrel2 webserver
  • iron/iron: Middleware based, concurrency oriented pure Rust framework.
  • jroweboy/oxidize
  • nickel-org/nickel.rs: inspired by Express.js, which is inspired by Sinatra.
  • Ogeon/rustful:
  • skade/widmann: inspired by Sinatra.
  • WebeWizard/libhttpd
  • nathansizemore/rustic-io: Websocket abstraction inspired by socket.io