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Top Welcoming Open-Source Rust Repositories

Top welcoming Rust repositories. Scored by real 90-day external PR merge rates, maintainer review turnaround speed, and first-time contributor success.

Updated daily • Wed, 14 Oct 2026 UTC
Tracked Repos
7,911
>100 stars verified
Avg Merge Rate
88%
90-day external PRs
Open GFIs
183
Beginner friendly issues
Welcoming Tier
50
S & A Tier maintainers

Ranked Rust Repositories

Showing top 50 of 7,911 ranked repositories

RankRepositoryTierScoreMerge RateGood First Issues
#1
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.
S•Elite80.086.6%32
#2
The second generation of wkhtmltopdf and wicked_pdf
S•Elite78.591.4% -
#3
Kite Ground Control (Kite GC) is a modern, cross-platform ground control station for INAV, ArduPilot and PX4 aircraft — planes, multirotors, VTOL, helicopters, rovers and boats.
S•Elite78.192.1% -
#4
An agent-native web security workspace. Find vulnerabilities through red-teaming. Formally verify properties of Rust codes in Lean 4.
S•Elite77.290.6%11
#5
A Wayland Compositor
S•Elite77.286.9%2
#6
A local-first Windows desktop bridge for syncing, exploring, and exporting your Zepp wearable health data.
S•Elite76.894.0% -
#7
A powerful, developer-friendly tool for local PHP development
S•Elite76.595.6% -
#8
Pure Rust implementation of the PLONK ZKProof System done by the Dusk team
S•Elite76.088.0% -
#9
A faster Optuna implementation in Rust.
S•Elite75.994.4% -
#10
はちみーをなめると〜 Game enhancement and translation mod for Honse Game. Cutting edge.
S•Elite75.781.8%1
#11
DeepSeek Harness Tauri 桌面版 | Only 5mb installer, zero environment setup, preset plugins, Windows / macOS / Linux.
S•Elite75.688.0% -
#12
🚀 Apache RocketMQ built in Rust 🦀 — faster, safer, and more memory-efficient. Powering high-performance messaging for the AI era, with AI Agent, MCP, and AI-SRE capabilities.
S•Elite75.391.7%12
#13
Open source Dropbox-like file sharing with full client encryption !
S•Elite75.289.4%2
#14
This crate provides concurrency control and async coordination primitives that are runtime agnostic.
S•Elite75.171.6%7
#15
Pure Rust PDF library for AI/RAG: structure-aware chunking, no ML, no C deps.
S•Elite74.989.7% -
#16
RDF data shapes implementation in Rust
S•Elite74.992.4% -
#17
Local-first desktop AI: chat with your files, turn one line into a living 3D scene, investigate logs and harden configs. Runs on your laptop, works offline.
S•Elite74.885.7%8
#18
Flexible and composable tile graphics converter supporting Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Mega Drive, Master System, Game Gear, PC Engine and WonderSwan formats.
S•Elite74.6100.0% -
#19
Persistent work state and minimal context for long-running AI agents.
S•Elite74.591.9% -
#20
The open source and enterprise-ready webhooks service 🦀
S•Elite74.490.8% -
#21
Rust Project Goals tracker
S•Elite74.393.1% -
#22
Valheim Docker powered by Odin. The Valheim dedicated gameserver manager which is designed with resiliency in mind by providing automatic updates, world backup support, and a user friendly cli interface.
S•Elite74.187.0% -
#23
A highly customizable Changelog Generator that follows Conventional Commit specifications ⛰️
S•Elite73.881.8%4
#24
A linguistic linter for Traditional Chinese (zh-TW)
S•Elite73.697.0% -
#25
AI agent builder with a VM at its heart. Every agent gets its own microVM sandbox to install software, run code and use the GPU in. Python, Node.js and Rust.
S•Elite73.390.8% -
#26
Dynamic Intent Resolution Grounding Engine
S•Elite73.296.0%5
#27
A feature-rich TUI client for Discord
S•Elite73.289.4% -
#28
ⵣ Ki Editor - Multi-cursor combinatoric modal editor.
S•Elite73.188.5%1
#29
Real-time clipboard sync across all your devices — local-first, peer-to-peer, and end-to-end encrypted. No account. No cloud dependency. No central server.
S•Elite72.990.9%2
#30
Open-source runtime for distributed edge applications. Write message-driven WebAssembly cells in Rust; Myrmic handles execution, messaging, state and placement across microcontrollers, gateways and servers.
S•Elite72.994.7% -
#31
modular service framework to move and transform network packets
S•Elite72.790.8%3
#32
🦀 Low-level 3D Computer Vision library in Rust
S•Elite72.774.2%44
#33
Stateful API logic for agentic applications using vLLM
S•Elite72.776.5%1
#34S•Elite72.794.3% -
#35
Unica (Ю́ника) — публичный плагин Codex и Claude Code для разработки на 1С:Предприятии.
S•Elite72.774.9%4
#36
A luxurious package manager for Lua
S•Elite72.790.4%5
#37
High Performance Low-Latency Frameworks
S•Elite72.791.0% -
#38
Manage multiple Claude Code, OpenCode agents from either TUI or Web for easy access on mobile. Also supports Mistral Vibe, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Pi.dev, Copilot CLI, Factory Droid Coding.
S•Elite72.687.7%3
#39
A Modern SystemVerilog Coding IDE.
S•Elite72.687.6% -
#40
Camelid: a Rust-native local inference backend with evidence-gated model compatibility.
S•Elite72.585.7% -
#41
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
S•Elite72.583.3%3
#42
One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. Home of the pg_search extension.
S•Elite72.471.1%17
#43
LoRa and LoRaWAN crates for End Devices
S•Elite72.377.6% -
#44
A native music streaming client, built with Rust and GPUI
S•Elite72.285.5% -
#45
The Native Terminal Emulator with a builtin AI Harness
S•Elite72.173.8%4
#46
Veryl: A Modern Hardware Description Language
S•Elite72.191.3% -
#47
Executes commands in response to file modifications
S•Elite72.090.6% -
#48
A high-performance multi-language bindings generator for Rust, up to 1,000x faster than UniFFI. Ship Rust libraries that feels native to Python, Swift, Kotlin, and more
S•Elite72.084.5%12
#49
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.
S•Elite71.993.2% -
#50
madmail is a lightweight, single-binary, PGP-only, and resilient mail server designed for instant messaging using DeltaChat.
S•Elite71.983.6% -

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