Rust
How vibe coders and indie builders use Rust: 435 projects built with it and 3 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
435
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
2.9%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+1%
Add-ons built for it
3
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Tauri 126
- React 59
- Python 36
- Claude (chat or unspecified) 36
- TypeScript 34
- SQLite 33
- WebAssembly 30
- Claude Code 22
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Rust
- photobaer — Edits layered images in the browser with Photoshop-style tools and opens and saves PSD files, all processed locally.“Looking for testers - photobaer: a free, open-source Photoshop alternative that runs offline in your browser and opens PSD”
- LoColemotion — Drives a simulated creature's joints in physics engines to produce walking, turning, and getting up, with an experiment harness that preregisters and records test runs.“I tried to remake Spore and ended up building a locomotion SDK and an experiment harness instead”
- cliproxy-rs — Exposes existing Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini subscription accounts as a single local API endpoint for coding tools.“cliproxy-rs - use the Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini accounts you already have in any coding tool through one local endpoint”
- Spec Architect — Guides spec-driven development from proposal to requirements to tasks, has AI coding agents execute the tasks, and verifies results against the spec.“Spec Architect: a ~27 MB Tauri app for spec-driven development with AI agents”
- VecSynIQ — Converts PNG and JPEG images into SVG vectors on-device and prepares them for print or vinyl cutting.“I built an on-device image-to-vector app for people who print and cut their own designs”
- Mah — Compiles a custom programming language to portable bytecode and runs it on a virtual machine, with a type checker, formatter and editor support.“I spent way too long building my own programming language”
- DROIDLESS — Runs unmodified Android APK bytecode in a Rust virtual machine and renders its views as native desktop controls.“DROIDLESS: Run Android APKs Without Android 🤖🦀”
- Teserra — Saves images, video, fonts and web pages into plain folders on a Mac and finds them by text description using a local search model.“I built Teserra, an "Obsidian for images", a native Mac library that keeps everything in plain folders”
- arm64js — Emulates an ARMv8-A machine in a browser tab so real Linux, shells and TUI apps run without installation.“Arm64js - ARMv8-A emulator that runs real Linux in a browser tab”
- Skidbladnir — Converts JPEG and PNG images to WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL or HEIC locally with a live before/after preview and batch folder processing.“I made Skidbladnir - a free desktop app that shrinks images on your own computer and shows you the before/after first (this one: 1.81 MB → 183 KB)”
- netwatch — Monitors network interfaces, routing, connections and per-process network activity in a terminal UI.“netwatch (terminal network monitor, Rust) now runs natively on FreeBSD”
- 100% Open Source Clean Room… — Provides native Rust open source clone implementations of several Adobe creative applications, including a Photoshop-style image editor.“100% Open Source Clean Room Implementations of 7 of Adobe's Top Apps”
- Dechonk — Finds regenerable build caches and dependency folders like node_modules and Cargo target, then moves them to the OS trash.“I built Dechonk, a tiny app that finds and deletes node_modules and build caches”
- SignalScreen — Checks Windows installers for signing quality and runs them on a clean Windows 11 VM to report whether SmartScreen warns users.“I built a tool that runs your Windows installer on a clean VM to see if SmartScreen will warn your users”
- Pricacy-first local AI… — Runs local LLMs as a chat and document review assistant that analyzes PDFs, Office files, and images without sending data to the cloud.“Pricacy-first local AI interface for document reviews and chat”
Latest add-ons built for Rust
- Scoped — Matches gamers into teams based on their gamer type and mic use, for selected multiplayer games.“Built a gaming matchmaking app”
- pmanager — Runs and supervises application processes across multiple languages, with restarts, health checks, logs, and monitoring.“I made a universal process manager for Node, Bun, Python, Go, Rust, and more”
- I stopped recording my games… — Turns long gameplay recordings into 10 to 15 vertical short clips locally on the user's GPU overnight.“I stopped recording my games because I knew I'd never edit them, so I built the thing that edits them”