Welcoming Repositories Index Rust Ecosystem

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 • Sun, 30 Aug 2026 UTC
Tracked Repos
5,336
>100 stars verified
Avg Merge Rate
94%
90-day external PRs
Open GFIs
106
Beginner friendly issues
Welcoming Tier
40
S & A Tier maintainers

Ranked Rust Repositories

Showing top 50 of 5,336 ranked repositories

RankRepositoryTierScoreMerge RateGood First Issues
#1
The power of Raycast. The speed of Alfred. Privacy by design.
SElite81.696.2%1
#2
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.
SElite81.293.7%5
#3
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.
SElite80.087.8%43
#4
An arbitrary precision calculator language
BSolid79.898.6% -
#5
Your agent pays twice for output it has already seen. OMNI returns a handle instead: 97.2% off a file read twice. Nothing deleted, nothing invented.
SElite79.795.1% -
#6
A Mirakurun-compatible PVR backend written in Rust
BSolid79.595.4% -
#7
A luxurious package manager for Lua
SElite79.292.9%5
#8
Rust Project Goals tracker
SElite79.297.1% -
#9
JSON Web Token Hack Toolkit
SElite78.9100.0% -
#10
Repo-native governance kernel for bounded, convergent, proof-backed agent work.
SElite78.895.4%11
#11
Terminal UI for SSH: hybrid ~/.ssh/config + host DB, embedded PTY sessions, SFTP browser, tunnels, key management, and audit log
SElite78.798.2% -
#12
Example applications, microservices, and code samples for the Internet Computer
SElite78.596.3% -
#13
Find any version of any Nix package, instantly. Fast CLI + HTTP API + web UI over 9+ years of indexed nixpkgs history — get the exact commit for nix shell nixpkgs/<commit>#pkg.
BSolid78.497.2% -
#14
A native TypeScript/JavaScript compiler written in Rust. Compiles TypeScript/JavaScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM.
SElite78.491.2%1
#15
A rules engine and game client — Rust + WASM + React
SElite78.092.4% -
#16
Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop.
SElite77.789.2%4
#17
The lightest AI sandbox. A process-based sandbox for Linux, no container, no VM, no privilege, no prompt injection
SElite77.690.1%5
#18
Turn a $5 Raspberry Pi RP2350 board into an open-source hardware passkey: WebAuthn/FIDO2 logins, ssh & git signing, OpenPGP, PIV, TOTP. Rust firmware, no_std.
SElite77.398.2% -
#19
A lightweight, no_std multi-chain HD wallet derivation library in Rust.
SElite77.2100.0% -
#20
Open-source AI meeting notes for Mac. Records mic + system audio with no bot, transcribes on-device or via OpenAI / Deepgram / Groq, identifies speakers offline, and writes summaries that fuse your notes with the transcript. Ask your notes and get cited answers. Tauri 2 + Rust + Swift.
BSolid77.296.6% -
#21
An unofficial Todoist command line client written in Rust
SElite77.193.1% -
#22
A League of Legends match history and performance analysis assistant built with Tauri 2 and Rust. Its innovative tagging system lets users instantly identify and analyze underperforming teammates, hard carries, and “passenger” players.
SElite76.994.7% -
#23SElite76.896.1% -
#24
Monorepo for StartOS, StartWRT, StartTunnel, start-sdk, start-docs, start-cli, start-registry, patch-db, and various shared libraries
SElite76.692.0% -
#25
A powerful, developer-friendly tool for local PHP development
SElite76.395.6% -
#26
Suzaku (朱雀) is a sigma-based threat hunting and fast forensics timeline generator for cloud logs.
SElite76.395.7% -
#27
Realm is a cross platform Red Team engagement platform with a focus on automation and reliability.
SElite76.395.5% -
#28
🦀 A friendly terminal UI for rsync, written in Rust. Reusable profiles, an honest dry-run diff, and live progress, even over SSH.
BSolid76.3100.0% -
#29
A Wayland Compositor
SElite76.290.8%3
#30
A Matrix server written in Rust
BSolid76.197.8% -
#31
Embeddable spreadsheet engine - parse, evaluate & mutate Excel workbooks from Rust, Python, or the browser. Arrow-powered, 400+ functions.
SElite75.890.3%3
#32
📜 Smart contracts for the Axone protocol
BSolid75.896.0% -
#33
Alternative R Frontend — a modern R console written in Rust
SElite75.895.2%1
#34
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.
SElite75.892.8%5
#35
Unica (Ю́ника) — публичный плагин Codex и Claude Code для разработки на 1С:Предприятии.
SElite75.788.3%4
#36
High Performance Low-Latency Frameworks
SElite75.794.7% -
#37
ccteam turns the coding agents you already run (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, DeepSeek Harness, Kimi, Pi) into one team — any session can spawn, dispatch, and collect work from any vendor on any machine, while you steer it all from Telegram, Lark, or a browser tab. 把你在用的编程 agent 编成一支团队,跨厂商跨机器派活,Telegram/飞书/网页统一指挥。
BSolid75.798.3% -
#38
Collection of block cipher algorithms written in pure Rust
SElite75.795.8% -
#39
Local-first speech-to-text: no cloud, no telemetry, fail-closed by design. One CLI, seven model families, signed model catalog, OpenAI-compatible local API.
SElite75.697.0% -
#40
Distributed event stream server over HTTP, backed by S3.
SElite75.596.1% -
#41
Rust Project Goals tracker
SElite75.593.8% -
#42
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.
SElite75.588.2%13
#43
A software library of stochastic streaming algorithms, a.k.a. sketches.
SElite75.480.5%2
#44
Pure-Rust library and CLI for converting DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files to PDF. No LibreOffice, no Chromium, no Docker — just a single binary powered by Typst.
BSolid75.395.5% -
#45
t8y2/dbx17,446
20 MB lightweight cross-platform database client for 90+ databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, SQL Server, and Dameng. Built-in AI, MCP Server, CLI, desktop and Docker. | 轻量级跨平台数据库管理工具,支持 MySQL、PostgreSQL、SQLite、Redis、MongoDB、达梦等 90+ 数据库,提供桌面端、Docker、CLI、内置 AI 助手和 MCP Server。
SElite75.389.3% -
#46
Wayland desktop shell and status bar in Rust with GPUI, featuring a modular bar, launcher, and control center for Hyprland and Niri.
BSolid75.2100.0% -
#47
The most customizable Wayland compositor with TypeScript(tsx).
SElite75.293.6% -
#48
RDF data shapes implementation in Rust
SElite75.298.1% -
#49
Native macOS orchestrator for coding agents — run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini and shells in parallel across git worktrees and remote hosts
SElite75.185.9% -
#50
screenshot tool for wayland compositors.
SElite75.194.9% -

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