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This curated list contains 40 awesome open-source projects with a total of 55K stars grouped into 14 categories. All projects are ranked by a project-quality score, which is calculated based on various metrics automatically collected from GitHub and different package managers. If you like to add or update projects, feel free to open an issue, submit a pull request, or directly edit the projects.yaml. Contributions are very welcome!
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- User Interfaces 1 projects
- Home Automation Protocols 3 projects
- Smart Grid Protocols 7 projects
- Robotics 3 projects
- Graphics 1 projects
- Inter Process Communication 6 projects
- Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) 2 projects
- Character Device Drivers 3 projects
- Continous Integration 1 projects
- Yocto Layers 4 projects
- Yocto 1 projects
- Cross Compilation 1 projects
- Testing 3 projects
- Tools 4 projects
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- slint (🥇34 · ⭐ 19K) - Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit to build native user..
❗Unlicensed
rs-matter (🥇17 · ⭐ 380) - Rust implementation of the Matter protocol. Status: Experimental. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 27 · 🔀 46 · 📦 6 · 📋 57 - 45% open · ⏱️ 22.04.2025):
git clone https://github.com/project-chip/rs-matter
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- rust-ocpp (🥇17 · ⭐ 87) - Libraries for ocpp 1.6 and 2.0.1.
Apache-2 - openleadr-rs (🥈12 · ⭐ 32 · 🐣) - OpenADR 3.0 VTN and VEN implementation in Rust.
❗Unlicensed - sunspec_rs (🥈7) -
MIT - sunspec (🥉6 · ⭐ 7) - Rust crate for accessing SunSpec compliant devices in a safe and..
Apache-2 - tokio-sunspec (🥉6 · ⭐ 5 · 💀) - A tokio-based SunSpec library.
Apache-2 - eebus-rust (🥉4 · ⭐ 3 · 💀) - Very basic EEBUS protocol implementation in Rust.
MIT - libmburs (🥉3 · ⭐ 1) - For when you want to talk to an m-bus device but dont want to use C.
❗️EUPL-1.2
rosrust (🥇20 · ⭐ 760) - Pure Rust implementation of a ROS client library. MIT
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GitHub (👨💻 19 · 🔀 75 · 📦 230 · 📋 110 - 36% open · ⏱️ 03.02.2025):
git clone https://github.com/adnanademovic/rosrust
ros2_rust (🥉18 · ⭐ 1.1K) - Rust bindings for ROS 2. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 47 · 🔀 150 · 📋 170 - 29% open · ⏱️ 13.03.2025):
git clone https://github.com/ros2-rust/ros2_rust
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- r2r (🥉15 · ⭐ 360) - Minimal ROS 2 Rust bindings.
❗Unlicensed
rust-skia (🥇22 · ⭐ 1.6K) - Rust Bindings for the Skia Graphics Library. MIT
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GitHub (👨💻 56 · 🔀 140 · 📥 370 · 📦 9 · 📋 340 - 10% open · ⏱️ 11.04.2025):
git clone https://github.com/rust-skia/rust-skia
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- zbus (🥇25 · ⭐ 480) - Rust D-Bus crate.
❗Unlicensed - dbus-rs (🥈15 · ⭐ 620) - D-Bus binding for the Rust language.
❗Unlicensed - rustbus (🥈15 · ⭐ 59 · 💤) - Dbus transport in pure rust.
MIT - dbus-bytestream (🥉6 · ⭐ 6 · 💀) - Native D-Bus implementation for Rust.
❗️LGPL-2.1 - dbus-pure (🥉5 · ⭐ 13) - Pure Rust implementation of a D-Bus client.
Apache-2 - async-rustbus (🥉2 · ⭐ 2 · 💀) - An asynchronous implementation of the DBus protocol..
❗Unlicensed
linux-embedded-hal (🥇22 · ⭐ 260) - Implementation of the `embedded-hal` traits for Linux.. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 29 · 🔀 45 · 📦 1.4K · 📋 41 - 48% open · ⏱️ 07.02.2025):
git clone https://github.com/rust-embedded/linux-embedded-hal
embedded-hal-mock (🥉17 · ⭐ 130) - Mocks for testing embedded-hal based drivers without.. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 24 · 🔀 24 · 📦 920 · 📋 31 - 29% open · ⏱️ 26.04.2025):
git clone https://github.com/dbrgn/embedded-hal-mock
rust-i2cdev (🥇21 · ⭐ 220) - Rust library for interfacing with i2c devices under Linux. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 29 · 🔀 54 · 📦 1K · 📋 31 - 16% open · ⏱️ 04.03.2025):
git clone https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-i2cdev
rust-spidev (🥉18 · ⭐ 120) - Rust library providing access to spidev devices under Linux. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 16 · 🔀 31 · 📦 810 · 📋 11 - 9% open · ⏱️ 04.03.2025):
git clone https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-spidev
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actions-rust-cross (🥇19 · ⭐ 160) - GitHub Action to compile Rust with cross. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 7 · 🔀 20 · 📦 1K · 📋 34 - 11% open · ⏱️ 12.04.2025):
git clone https://github.com/houseabsolute/actions-rust-cross
meta-rust (🥇15 · ⭐ 220) - OpenEmbedded/Yocto layer for Rust and Cargo. MIT
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GitHub (👨💻 64 · 🔀 130 · 📋 160 - 38% open · ⏱️ 13.03.2025):
git clone https://github.com/meta-rust/meta-rust
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- meta-rust-bin (🥈12 · ⭐ 120) - Yocto layer for installing Rust toolchain from pre-built..
❗Unlicensed - meta-slint (🥉10 · ⭐ 15) - A Yocto layer with recipes for building Slint.
MIT - meta-rugix (🥉5) - Yocto layers for Rugix.
Apache-2
kas (🥇21 · ⭐ 450) - Setup tool for bitbake based projects. MIT
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GitHub (👨💻 78 · 🔀 170 · 📦 86 · 📋 110 - 14% open · ⏱️ 24.04.2025):
git clone https://github.com/siemens/kas
cross (🥇30 · ⭐ 7.3K) - Zero setup cross compilation and cross testing of Rust crates. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 130 · 🔀 400 · 📥 2.2M · 📦 350 · 📋 800 - 23% open · ⏱️ 28.04.2025):
git clone https://github.com/cross-rs/cross
insta (🥇30 · ⭐ 2.5K) - A snapshot testing library for rust. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 60 · 🔀 120 · 📥 130K · 📦 12K · 📋 300 - 15% open · ⏱️ 08.04.2025):
git clone https://github.com/mitsuhiko/insta
proptest (🥉26 · ⭐ 1.9K) - Hypothesis-like property testing for Rust. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 77 · 🔀 180 · 📦 42K · 📋 270 - 41% open · ⏱️ 21.03.2025):
git clone https://github.com/proptest-rs/proptest
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- mockalloc (🥉2 · ⭐ 13 · 💀) - Rust library for testing code relying on the global allocator.
❗Unlicensed
miri (🥈25 · ⭐ 5.1K) - An interpreter for Rusts mid-level intermediate representation. Apache-2
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GitHub (👨💻 310 · 🔀 370 · 📋 1.1K - 13% open · ⏱️ 29.04.2025):
git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/miri
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