A curated list of Rust projects, applications, tutorials, books, and resources.

This list focuses on high-quality, actively maintained, real-world items that are great for learning or using Rust today.

See also: rust-unofficial/awesome-rust (the massive crate & code reference).

• Getting Started
• Books
• Interactive Tutorials & Exercises
• Video Courses & Series
• Projects & Applications
  • CLI Tools
  • Web & Full-stack
  • Games & Graphics
  • System & Embedded
  • Other Cool Apps
• Tools & Utilities
• Community & Learning Resources
• Contributing
• License

• The Rust Programming Language Book – the official, best way to learn Rust.
• Rust by Example – learn by doing with runnable examples.
• Rustlings – small exercises to get comfortable with Rust.

• The Rust Programming Language (free, official)
• Command-Line Rust by Ken Youens-Clark
• Rust in Action by Tim McNamara
• Programming Rust (2nd ed.) – deep dive
• Zero To Production In Rust – build a production web app
• Rust for Rustaceans – for intermediate+ developers

• Rustlings
• Exercism Rust Track
• Rust Quiz
• Are We Yet? series (web, game, async, etc.)

• Jon Gjengset’s Crust of Rust (advanced)
• Let’s Get Rusty – excellent beginner to advanced
• The Rust Programming Language (official YouTube)

• ripgrep (rg) – blazingly fast grep
• bat – cat with syntax highlighting
• fd – user-friendly find
• zoxide – smarter cd with frecency
• eza – modern replacement for ls

• Zola – fast static site generator
• Leptos – fine-grained reactive web framework (full-stack)
• Tauri – build lightweight desktop apps with web frontend
• Axum + Tower – modular web framework (used in production by many)

• Bevy – data-driven game engine
• Veloren – open-world multiplayer voxel RPG
• Macroquad – simple & fast 2D/3D game framework

• Redox OS – full Rust operating system
• Tock OS – embedded OS for microcontrollers
• esp-rs – Rust on ESP32/ESP8266

• Alacritty – GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
• Helix – modal text editor (like Kakoune + Neovim)
• Lapce – lightning-fast code editor written in Rust

• cargo-watch
• cargo-expand
• rust-analyzer – the LSP (VS Code, etc.)
• cargo-binstall – install binaries blazingly fast
• sccache – shared compilation cache

• r/rust
• Rust Discord
• This Week in Rust
• Are We Learning Yet?
• Rust Survey 2025 results (check latest)

Contributions are very welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first.

The goal is curated quality, not quantity.

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