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Premier Construction SoftwareRated #1 Construction Accounting Software by Forbes Advisor in 2022 & 2023. Our modern SAAS solution is designed to meet the needs of General Contractors, Developers/Owners, Homebuilders & Specialty Contractors.
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RustDesk Server Program
Self-host your own RustDesk server
rustdesk-server is the self-hosted backend for RustDesk, an open-source remote desktop solution. It provides the rendezvous and relay components that allow RustDesk clients to discover peers and traverse NATs securely, enabling direct or relayed connections when needed. By running your own server, you retain control over connection metadata and can operate entirely within your organization’s perimeter. The project targets simplicity of deployment while maintaining performance characteristics suitable for interactive screen sharing and file transfer. It supports common operational needs such as configuring ports, authentication modes, and relay behavior to match diverse network constraints. Together with RustDesk clients, it offers a fully open alternative to proprietary remote-access ecosystems with an emphasis on privacy and self-custody. -
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Svix
The enterprise-ready webhooks service
Build a secure, reliable, and scalable webhook platform in minutes using the Svix webhook service. Webhooks require a lot more engineering time, resources and ongoing maintenance than you would first expect. Building a secure, reliable, and scalable webhook service is hard and time-consuming. We built it so you can focus on what matters most, your business. Customer endpoints fail or hang more often than you think. You need automatic retries to ensure deliverability. You need to monitor the deliverability of your webhooks to different endpoints, disable failing ones and notify your customers. Webhooks come with a myriad of security implications, such as SSRF, replay attacks and unauthenticated webhook events. You would need to build a UI for your users to add and remove endpoints, inspect logs and get ongoing reports. Offer your users a great developer experience, including the ability to test, inspect and replay their webhooks. -
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mdBook
Create books from markdown files
mdBook is a command line tool and Rust crate to create books with Markdown. The output resembles tools like Gitbook, and is ideal for creating product or API documentation, tutorials, course materials or anything that requires a clean, easily navigable and customizable presentation. mdBook is written in Rust; its performance and simplicity made it ideal for use as a tool to publish directly to hosted websites such as GitHub Pages via automation. This guide, in fact, serves as both the mdBook documentation and a fine example of what mdBook produces. mdBook includes built in support for both preprocessing your Markdown and alternative renderers for producing formats other than HTML. These facilities also enable other functionality such as validation. Searching Rust's crates.io is a great way to discover more extensions. -
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CXX
Safe interop between Rust and C++
CXX is a library that offers safe interop between Rust and C++. It provides a safe mechanism for calling C++ code from Rust and vice versa, one that is protected from the many possible things that can go wrong when bindgen or cbindgen is used to generate unsafe C-style bindings. The general idea of CXX is to define the signatures of both sides of the FFI boundary embedded together in one Rust module. CXX gets a complete picture from this of the boundary, and through it is able to perform static analyses against the types and function signatures, ensuring that both Rust's and C++'s invariants and requirements are upheld. CXX then emits the relevant extern "C" signatures on both sides through a pair of code generators. This is done together with any necessary static assertions needed for later in the build process to verify correctness. The result is an FFI bridge that operates at zero or negligible overhead, with no copying, serialization or memory allocation needed. -
Outbound sales softwareAdversus is an outbound dialing solution that helps you streamline your call strategies, automate manual processes, and provide valuable insights to improve your outbound workflows and efficiency.
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RuVector
Self-Learning, Vector Graph Neural Network, and Database built in Rust
RuVector is part of the broader rUv ecosystem of AI engineering tools and focuses on enabling advanced vector-based processing and intelligent system development within agentic and AI-driven pipelines. The project fits into a larger vision of modular, composable AI infrastructure designed to support autonomous agents, data retrieval, and intelligent automation workflows. It emphasizes extensibility and interoperability with modern AI stacks, allowing developers to integrate vector operations into search, reasoning, or generative systems. The repository reflects a research-forward approach that blends practical utilities with experimental agentic concepts, encouraging exploration of emerging AI design patterns. It is intended for developers building sophisticated AI-powered applications who need flexible vector handling and integration capabilities. -
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Anyhow
Flexible concrete Error type built on std::error::Error
This is a Rust library (crate) that provides a flexible, concrete error type built atop the standard std::error::Error trait. Its primary goal is to make error handling in applications easy: instead of defining lots of custom error types, you can use anyhow::Error (or the alias anyhow::Result<T>) for fallible functions. The crate supports attaching context to errors, so you can convert a low-level error (like “file not found”) into one with richer diagnostics (“Failed to read instructions from path X”) using .context() or .with_context(). It supports downcasting (so you can inspect the underlying error type), and for recent versions of Rust, it will capture backtraces by default when the underlying error type doesn’t already. It also supports no_std mode (in limited form) by disabling default features. The README distinguishes it from library-oriented error crates (like thiserror): use anyhow when you just care about application-level error handling, not fine-grained types. -
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cross
Zero setup cross compilation and cross testing of Rust crates
This project is developed and maintained by the cross-rs team. It was previously maintained by the Rust Embedded Working Group Tools team. You have four options to configure cross. cross will provide all the ingredients needed for cross-compilation without touching your system installation. cross provides an environment, cross-toolchain, and cross-compiled libraries, that produce the most portable binaries. “cross-testing”, cross can test crates for architectures other than i686 and x86_64. -
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Russh
Rust SSH client & server library
Russh provides a Rust library for implementing SSH clients and servers with a modern, async-friendly design. It exposes building blocks for authentication, channel management, port forwarding, and key handling, allowing you to embed SSH functionality directly into Rust applications. The API is designed to be explicit and composable, making it possible to implement custom behaviors like reverse tunnels, interactive shells, and service multiplexing. Because performance and safety are central, the code leverages Rust’s type system to reduce classes of runtime errors common in network protocol implementations. The project also includes examples and discussion threads that show how other tools integrate it for web-based clients or gateway services. For teams building terminals, proxies, or embedded management planes, it offers a robust foundation without shelling out to external binaries. -
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Rust Programming Language
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software
The Rust Programming Language is a language that empowers you to build reliable and efficient software. It runs blazingly fast and is memory-efficient, so it can power performance-critical services and run on embedded devices. It has a rich type system and ownership model, ensuring both thread and memory safety. Consisting of a standard library, great documentation and a friendly compiler, plus a top-notch build tool, package manager, auto-formatter and many other great tools, it’s the language of choice for increased productivity. Hundreds of companies the world over are using Rust to power an amazing range of cross-platform solutions. See what a great fit Rust can be for your own projects! -
Failed Payment Recovery for Subscription BusinessesFlexPay’s innovative platform uses multiple technologies to achieve the highest number of retained customers, resulting in reduced involuntary churn, longer life span after recovery, and higher revenue. Leading brands like LegalZoom, Hooked on Phonics, and ClinicSense trust FlexPay to recover failed payments, reduce churn, and increase customer lifetime value.
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Parser for Rust source code
Parser for Rust source code
Parser for Rust source code is a major Rust crate for parsing Rust source code (token streams) into a syntax tree (AST) that procedural macros can inspect or transform. The primary target is macro authors: you can parse TokenStreams into syn::File, syn::Item, syn::Expr, syn::Type, etc. It offers rich data structures, fine-grained parsing, span tracking (for error reporting), traversal and mutation APIs (visit, fold, visit_mut), printing back to tokens, and strong feature-gating so you only compile what you need. The documentation emphasises that while the crate is geared for procedural macros (and custom derives), some of the APIs may be of more general use. Using syn you can effectively write code that analyzes or generates Rust code at compile time. -
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Peroxide
Rust numeric library with high performance and friendly syntax
Rust numeric library contains linear algebra, numerical analysis, statistics and machine learning tools with R, MATLAB, Python-like macros. Peroxide uses a 1D data structure to represent matrices, making it straightforward to integrate with BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms). This means that Peroxide can guarantee excellent performance for linear algebraic computations by leveraging the optimized routines provided by BLAS. For users familiar with numerical computing libraries like NumPy, MATLAB, or R, Rust's syntax might seem unfamiliar at first. This can make it more challenging to learn and use Rust libraries that heavily rely on Rust's unique features and syntax. -
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Rust-Lightning
Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust
Rust-Lightning is a Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. The main crate, lightning, does not handle networking, persistence, or any other I/O. Thus, it is runtime-agnostic, but users must implement basic networking logic, chain interactions, and disk storage. The project implements all of the BOLT specifications in the 1.0 spec. The implementation has pretty good test coverage that is expected to continue to improve. It is also anticipated that as developers begin using the API, the lessons from that will result in changes to the API, so any developer using this API at this stage should be prepared to embrace that. LDK/Rust-Lightning is a generic library which allows you to build a lightning node without needing to worry about getting all of the lightning state machine, routing, and on-chain punishment code (and other chain interactions) exactly correct. Note that Rust-Lightning isn't, in itself, a node. -
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pgwire
PostgreSQL wire protocol implemented as a rust library.
Build a Postgres compatible access layer for your data service. This library implements PostgreSQL Wire Protocol and provides essential APIs to write PostgreSQL-compatible servers and clients. If you are interested in a related topic, you can check project ideas to build on top of this library. -
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rust_cmd_lib
Common rust command-line macros and utilities
rust_cmd_lib is a Rust library designed to make it easier to write shell-script–style tasks in Rust, blending the power and safety of Rust with the expressiveness of shell pipelines. It provides macros and utilities that let you spawn external processes, redirect input/output, and pipe commands together, all without invoking a shell. You can write something like run_cmd!(ls -l | grep foo > out.txt) in a more declarative style, rather than manually wiring up file descriptors, handles, and child processes. The library also supports features like variable substitution, scoped environment settings, and defining custom commands (functions) that behave like built-ins. It hides much of the boilerplate of std::process::Command when you're doing simple task automations, but still allows full flexibility when needed. Because it avoids launching a shell, it reduces some classes of security and quoting errors, while improving readability of scripting logic inside a Rust binary. -
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Iced
A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
Iced is a cross-platform, end-user-oriented GUI library for Rust, inspired by The Elm Architecture. It expects you to split user interfaces into four different concepts, which are: the state of your app; messages, which are user interactions or other meaningful events; view logic, which displays your state as widgets that can result in messages; and update logic, which offers a way to update your state and react to messages. Iced is very simple and easy to use, and is type-safe. It offers many great features including built-in widgets and custom widget support, debug overlay, a modular ecosystem and more. -
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Mako
An extremely fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
Mako is a new web bundler for web apps, libraries, and frameworks. It's designed to be fast, reliable, and easy to use. It has been used in hundreds of projects in production by Ant Group, and other companies. If you are looking for a modern web bundler, Mako is the right choice. -
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PgRx
Build Postgres Extensions with Rust
pgrx is a Rust framework for developing PostgreSQL extensions, making it easier to write safe, high-performance native extensions in Rust. It handles the boilerplate and unsafe FFI needed to interface with Postgres internals, allowing developers to focus on logic. With built-in support for SQL generation, testing, and deployment, pgrx streamlines the extension creation process while embracing Rust’s safety guarantees. -
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derive(Error)
derive(Error) for struct and enum error types
This is a Rust crate that provides a convenient derive macro (#[derive(Error)]) for implementing std::error::Error on your custom error types (structs or enums). The goal is to enable library authors to build expressive, typed error types, with readable Display implementations (via #[error("...")] annotations) as well as From conversions (#[from]), source tracking (#[source]), and optionally backtraces. It is designed so that switching from handwritten error implementation to using this error is not a breaking change: you retain the same API. The README shows examples: an enum with variants annotated by #[error("…")] and #[from] fields to derive the appropriate trait impls. The crate expects rustc ≥ 1.68+. The README also outlines how you choose; use thiserror if you care about designing your own error-types (e.g., for libraries) vs anyhow for applications. -
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hyper for Rust
An HTTP library for Rust
hyper is a fast HTTP implementation written in and for Rust. A Client for talking to web services. A Server for building those web services. Blazing fast thanks to Rust. High concurrency with non-blocking sockets. HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 support. hyper is a relatively low-level library, meant to be a building block for libraries and applications. If you are looking for a convenient HTTP client, then you may wish to consider reqwest. If you are looking for a convenient HTTP server, then you may wish to consider warp. Both are built on top of this library. A Service lets you define how to respond to incoming requests. While it is possible to implement the trait directly, there are a few patterns that are common when using Hyper. We’ve included some helpers for when these patterns fit our needs. An echo server will listen for incoming connections and send back the request body as the response body on POST requests. -
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mail-parser
Fast and robust e-mail parsing library for Rust
Stalwart Mail Parser is a high-performance Rust library designed for parsing and analyzing email messages. It efficiently handles complex MIME structures, supports various encodings, and is optimized for speed and robustness. The library is suitable for applications requiring detailed email processing and analysis. -
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redis-rs
Redis library for rust
Redis-rs is a Rust library for interacting with Redis databases, offering high-performance data manipulation capabilities for Rust developers. -
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Kameo
Fault-tolerant Async Actors Built on Tokio
Kameo is a lightweight Rust library for building fault-tolerant, distributed, and asynchronous actors. It allows seamless communication between actors across nodes, providing scalability, backpressure, and panic recovery for robust distributed systems. Kameo stands out by offering simplicity, resilience, and scalability. It's not just about making concurrent programming easier—it's about empowering you to build the reliable, efficient, and scalable systems that today's users demand. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, Kameo is designed to be relatable and accessible, providing you with the tools you need to bring your ideas to life. -
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heim
Cross-platform async library for system information fetching
Heim is a cross-platform system monitoring library written in Rust, providing real-time metrics for CPU, memory, and other resources. -
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DCV Color Primitives
DCV Color Primitives Library
DCV Color Primitives is a library to perform image color model conversion. Aware of the underlying hardware and supplemental cpu extension sets (up to avx2). Support data coming from a single buffer or coming from multiple image planes. Support non-tightly packed data. Support images greater than 4GB (64 bit). Convert an image from bgra to nv12 (single plane) format containing yuv in BT601. You might want to propagate errors to the caller function or mix with some other error types. So far, buffers were sized taking into account the image pixel format and dimensions; However, you can use a function to compute how many bytes are needed to store an image of a given format and size. If your data is scattered in multiple buffers that are not necessarily contiguous, you can provide image planes. To take into account data which is not tightly packed, you can provide image strides. -
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Chumsky
Write expressive, high-performance parsers with ease.
Chumsky is a parser library for Rust that focuses on expressiveness and performance. It provides developers with tools to write high-performance parsers using combinators, suitable for a wide range of parsing tasks.
