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.
Ranked Rust Repositories
Showing top 50 of 7,911 ranked repositories
| Rank | Repository | Tier | Score | Merge Rate | Good 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•Elite | 80.0 | 86.6% | 32 |
| #2 | The second generation of wkhtmltopdf and wicked_pdf | S•Elite | 78.5 | 91.4% | - |
| #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•Elite | 78.1 | 92.1% | - |
| #4 | h5i-dev/h5i761 An agent-native web security workspace. Find vulnerabilities through red-teaming. Formally verify properties of Rust codes in Lean 4. | S•Elite | 77.2 | 90.6% | 11 |
| #5 | mahkoh/jay712 A Wayland Compositor | S•Elite | 77.2 | 86.9% | 2 |
| #6 | A local-first Windows desktop bridge for syncing, exploring, and exporting your Zepp wearable health data. | S•Elite | 76.8 | 94.0% | - |
| #7 | A powerful, developer-friendly tool for local PHP development | S•Elite | 76.5 | 95.6% | - |
| #8 | Pure Rust implementation of the PLONK ZKProof System done by the Dusk team | S•Elite | 76.0 | 88.0% | - |
| #9 | A faster Optuna implementation in Rust. | S•Elite | 75.9 | 94.4% | - |
| #10 | はちみーをなめると〜 Game enhancement and translation mod for Honse Game. Cutting edge. | S•Elite | 75.7 | 81.8% | 1 |
| #11 | DeepSeek Harness Tauri 桌面版 | Only 5mb installer, zero environment setup, preset plugins, Windows / macOS / Linux. | S•Elite | 75.6 | 88.0% | - |
| #12 | mxsm/rocketmq-rust1,528 🚀 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•Elite | 75.3 | 91.7% | 12 |
| #13 | Open source Dropbox-like file sharing with full client encryption ! | S•Elite | 75.2 | 89.4% | 2 |
| #14 | This crate provides concurrency control and async coordination primitives that are runtime agnostic. | S•Elite | 75.1 | 71.6% | 7 |
| #15 | Pure Rust PDF library for AI/RAG: structure-aware chunking, no ML, no C deps. | S•Elite | 74.9 | 89.7% | - |
| #16 | RDF data shapes implementation in Rust | S•Elite | 74.9 | 92.4% | - |
| #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•Elite | 74.8 | 85.7% | 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•Elite | 74.6 | 100.0% | - |
| #19 | Persistent work state and minimal context for long-running AI agents. | S•Elite | 74.5 | 91.9% | - |
| #20 | svix/svix-webhooks3,439 The open source and enterprise-ready webhooks service 🦀 | S•Elite | 74.4 | 90.8% | - |
| #21 | Rust Project Goals tracker | S•Elite | 74.3 | 93.1% | - |
| #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•Elite | 74.1 | 87.0% | - |
| #23 | orhun/git-cliff12,246 A highly customizable Changelog Generator that follows Conventional Commit specifications ⛰️ | S•Elite | 73.8 | 81.8% | 4 |
| #24 | A linguistic linter for Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) | S•Elite | 73.6 | 97.0% | - |
| #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•Elite | 73.3 | 90.8% | - |
| #26 | Dynamic Intent Resolution Grounding Engine | S•Elite | 73.2 | 96.0% | 5 |
| #27 | chojs23/concord1,602 A feature-rich TUI client for Discord | S•Elite | 73.2 | 89.4% | - |
| #28 | ⵣ Ki Editor - Multi-cursor combinatoric modal editor. | S•Elite | 73.1 | 88.5% | 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•Elite | 72.9 | 90.9% | 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•Elite | 72.9 | 94.7% | - |
| #31 | plabayo/rama1,237 modular service framework to move and transform network packets | S•Elite | 72.7 | 90.8% | 3 |
| #32 | 🦀 Low-level 3D Computer Vision library in Rust | S•Elite | 72.7 | 74.2% | 44 |
| #33 | Stateful API logic for agentic applications using vLLM | S•Elite | 72.7 | 76.5% | 1 |
| #34 | S•Elite | 72.7 | 94.3% | - | |
| #35 | Unica (Ю́ника) — публичный плагин Codex и Claude Code для разработки на 1С:Предприятии. | S•Elite | 72.7 | 74.9% | 4 |
| #36 | lumen-oss/lux1,003 A luxurious package manager for Lua | S•Elite | 72.7 | 90.4% | 5 |
| #37 | High Performance Low-Latency Frameworks | S•Elite | 72.7 | 91.0% | - |
| #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•Elite | 72.6 | 87.7% | 3 |
| #39 | A Modern SystemVerilog Coding IDE. | S•Elite | 72.6 | 87.6% | - |
| #40 | Camelid: a Rust-native local inference backend with evidence-gated model compatibility. | S•Elite | 72.5 | 85.7% | - |
| #41 | servo/servo38,148 Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. | S•Elite | 72.5 | 83.3% | 3 |
| #42 | paradedb/paradedb9,400 One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. Home of the pg_search extension. | S•Elite | 72.4 | 71.1% | 17 |
| #43 | LoRa and LoRaWAN crates for End Devices | S•Elite | 72.3 | 77.6% | - |
| #44 | A native music streaming client, built with Rust and GPUI | S•Elite | 72.2 | 85.5% | - |
| #45 | The Native Terminal Emulator with a builtin AI Harness | S•Elite | 72.1 | 73.8% | 4 |
| #46 | veryl-lang/veryl1,044 Veryl: A Modern Hardware Description Language | S•Elite | 72.1 | 91.3% | - |
| #47 | watchexec/watchexec7,214 Executes commands in response to file modifications | S•Elite | 72.0 | 90.6% | - |
| #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•Elite | 72.0 | 84.5% | 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•Elite | 71.9 | 93.2% | - |
| #50 | madmail is a lightweight, single-binary, PGP-only, and resilient mail server designed for instant messaging using DeltaChat. | S•Elite | 71.9 | 83.6% | - |
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