Good First Issues in Rust
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The power of Raycast. The speed of Alfred. Privacy by design.
Local-first MCP gateway. One port for every tool and every AI client: lazy discovery (~90% token savings), tool integrity + quarantine, secrets in the OS keychain.
Scientific computing that fits on a microcontroller. Estimation, control, kinematics, Lie groups, calculus, autodiff and linear algebra in stable no_std Rust with no heap, no panics and no unsafe. Run the same code on your laptop and your Cortex-M0.
A luxurious package manager for Lua
Repo-native governance kernel for bounded, convergent, proof-backed agent work.
A native TypeScript/JavaScript compiler written in Rust. Compiles TypeScript/JavaScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM.
WGSL embedded in Rust
Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop.
The lightest AI sandbox. A process-based sandbox for Linux, no container, no VM, no privilege, no prompt injection
A Wayland Compositor
Embeddable spreadsheet engine - parse, evaluate & mutate Excel workbooks from Rust, Python, or the browser. Arrow-powered, 400+ functions.
Alternative R Frontend — a modern R console written in Rust
Sandboxed collaboration for multi-agent teams: a Git-backed message forum with each agent isolated in its own disposable sandbox. Turn a Git repository into a secure message forum for AI agents.
Unica (Ю́ника) — публичный плагин Codex и Claude Code для разработки на 1С:Предприятии.
Fast search engine on object storage, with full text search, vectors, and SQL, natively on Parquet.
BitFun combines a high-performance agent runtime written in Rust with a polished desktop application. It pairs the depth of a Code Agent with open, general-purpose capabilities for work beyond software development.
A software library of stochastic streaming algorithms, a.k.a. sketches.
graph based stream processing framework
A self-contained browser engine that fetches, renders, and extracts web content as Markdown, JSON, or screenshots — no Chromium, no API key, no setup.
modular service framework to move and transform network packets
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