List of Rust software and tools

Compilers

• Cranelift — code generator and JIT compiler that can be used to compile Rust through Wasmtime and experimental backends
• LLVM
• MRustC — alternative Rust compiler written in C++, focused on bootstrapping.
• rustc — official Rust compiler, written in Rust and using LLVM as a backend.

Integrated development environments and editors

• CLion / IntelliJ IDEA — with the official Rust plugin maintained by JetBrains
• Emacs — support via rustic mode and rust-mode
• Kate — basic Rust support via syntax highlighting and plugins
• Neovim / Vim — Rust support through plugins like rust.vim and coc-rust-analyzer
• RustRover — JetBrains IDE focused on Rust development
• Visual Studio Code — Rust support via the Rust Analyzer language server
• Zed

Package managers and build systems

• Bazel — build system with community support for Rust rules
• Cargo — Rust package manager and build tool, included with Rust distribution.
• Crates.io — official package registry for Rust libraries and applications
• Rustup — toolchain installer and version manager for Rust

Libraries and frameworks

• Actix — actor framework and high-performance web framework
• Diesel — ORM and query builder for Rust
• Rayon — data parallelism library for Rust
• Rocket — web framework focused on type safety
• Serde — framework for serialization and deserialization supporting JSON, YAML, TOML, and more.
• Tokio — asynchronous runtime for Rust

Real-time and embedded systems

• no_std Rust — core Rust programming without the standard library, for bare-metal development.
• Rust for Embedded — Rust support for embedded systems via the Embedded Working Group
• RTIC — real-time concurrency framework for Cortex-M microcontrollers
• Tock — embedded operating system written in Rust

Numerical and scientific computing

• Linfa — machine learning framework for Rust
• ndarray — array and linear algebra operations
• nalgebra — general-purpose linear algebra library
• Polars — DataFrame library for data analysis in Rust

Verification, debugging, and analysis

• Clippy — linter for Rust, providing warnings for common mistakes and idioms.
• Miri — interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation, used for checking undefined behavior.
• Rustfmt — formatting tool for Rust code
• Sanitizer — Rust integration with LLVM sanitizers for memory and thread safety

Testing frameworks

• Built-in test framework — included in the Rust compiler and Cargo
• Proptest — property-based testing framework for Rust
• QuickCheck for Rust — port of the Haskell QuickCheck property-testing library

Documentation and code generation

• Bindgen — generates Rust FFI bindings to C libraries
• Cbindgen — generates C headers from Rust code
• rustdoc — official Rust documentation generator