alilleybrinker/langs-in-rust

A list of programming languages implemented in Rust, for inspiration.

Source code at GitHub https://github.com/alilleybrinker/langs-in-rust

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Languages Written in Rust

This is a (probably incomplete) list of languages implemented in Rust. It is intended as a source of inspiration and comparison, and as a directory of potentially interesting projects in this vein.

What Can Be Included?

Is it a language?
Is it written in Rust?

Then it can be included in this list!

List of Languages

Name	⭐ Stars	☀️ Status	Description
[Deno]	101,364	☀️ Active	A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.
[Rust]	100,852	☀️ Active	Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
[Sway]	62,462	☀️ Active	🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts.
[Typst]	37,086	☀️ Active	A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
[nu]	33,643	☀️ Active	A new type of shell
[swc]	31,560	☀️ Active	Rust-based platform for the Web
[RustPython]	19,534	☀️ Active	A Python Interpreter written in Rust
[Gleam]	18,641	☀️ Active	⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
[Lightning CSS]	6,751	☀️ Active	An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust.
[Boa]	5,397	☀️ Active	Boa is an embeddable and experimental Javascript engine written in Rust. Currently, it has support for some of the language.
[Winglang]	5,117	☀️ Active	A programming language for the cloud ☁️ A unified programming model, combining infrastructure and runtime code into one language ⚡
[Leo]	4,802	☀️ Active	🦁 The Leo Programming Language. A Programming Language for Formally Verified, Zero-Knowledge Applications
[Roc]	4,654	☀️ Active	A fast, friendly, functional language.
[Melody]	4,651	☀️ Active	Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable
[Rhai]	4,324	☀️ Active	Rhai - An embedded scripting language for Rust.
[Kind]	3,605	☀️ Active	A modern proof language
[Gluon]	3,262	☀️ Active	A static, type inferred and embeddable language written in Rust.
[Artichoke]	3,072	☀️ Active	💎 Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust
[Erg]	2,734	☀️ Active	A statically typed language compatible with Python
[Nickel]	2,479	☀️ Active	Better configuration for less
[Scryer Prolog]	2,133	☀️ Active	A modern Prolog implementation written mostly in Rust.
[Chap]	2,017	☀️ Active	A Left to right keywordless dynamically typed scripting language
[Mun]	1,933	☀️ Active	Source code for the Mun language and runtime.
[Ante]	1,932	☀️ Active	A safe, easy systems language
[KCL]	1,841	☀️ Active	KCL Programming Language (CNCF Sandbox Project). https://kcl-lang.io
[Rune]	1,836	☀️ Active	An embeddable dynamic programming language for Rust.
[Uiua]	1,725	☀️ Active	A stack-based array programming language
[Fe]	1,643	☀️ Active	Emerging smart contract language for the Ethereum blockchain.
[Steel]	1,456	☀️ Active	An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust
[frawk]	1,261	☀️ Active	an efficient awk-like language
[Passerine]	1,065	☀️ Active	A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code.
[Inko]	933	☀️ Active	A language for building concurrent software with confidence
[Tvix]	754	☀️ Active	Tvix - A Rust implementation of Nix. Read-only mirror of https://code.tvl.fyi/tree/tvix
[Starlark]	750	☀️ Active	A Rust implementation of the Starlark language
[Koto]	578	☀️ Active	A simple, expressive, embeddable programming language
[Veryl]	564	☀️ Active	Veryl: A Modern Hardware Description Language
[Duckscript]	537	☀️ Active	Simple, extendable and embeddable scripting language.
[fastn]	471	☀️ Active	An easy-to-learn, open-source solution for building modern content-centric and database-driven websites.
[jsparagus]	451	☀️ Active	Experimental JS parser-generator project.
[Lurk]	438	☀️ Active	Lurk is a Turing-complete programming language for recursive zk-SNARKs. This is the prior, elliptic curve based variant of Lurk (contact: @porcuquine)
[EndBASIC]	331	☀️ Active	BASIC environment with a REPL, a web interface, a graphical console, and RPi support written in Rust
[candy]	327	☀️ Active	🍭 A sweet, functional programming language that is robust, minimalistic, and expressive.
[Roto]	318	☀️ Active	The strongly-typed, compiled embedded scripting language for Rust, used by Rotonda.
[Loxcraft]	287	☀️ Active	Language tooling for the Lox programming language.
[Tokay]	242	☀️ Active	Tokay is a programming language designed for ad-hoc parsing, inspired by awk.
[Antimony]	146	☀️ Active	The Antimony programming language
[Calcit]	119	☀️ Active	Indentation-based ClojureScript dialect in Rust and compiling to JavaScript ES Modules
[darklua]	107	☀️ Active	A command line tool that transforms Lua code
[Laythe]	64	☀️ Active	A gradually typed language originally based on the crafting interpreters series
[RayQL]	53	☀️ Active	RayQL is a schema definition and query language for SQLite
[Xylo]	47	☀️ Active	Xylo is a functional programming language for procedural art
[Ellie]	44	☀️ Active	Ellie is a type-safe programing language that runs on embedded and sandboxed environments.
[tpl-lang]	21	☀️ Active	🦀 Toy Language based on LLVM
[Cyrus Lang]	20	☀️ Active	Cyrus: A high-performance, statically-typed, manually memory-managed and procedural programming language empowered by GCCJIT.
[Wright]	19	☀️ Active	The wright programming language (WIP)
[Watt]	18	☀️ Active	🍹 Lightweight, dynamically typed, simple scripting programming language.
[Adept3x]	7	☀️ Active	A language designed to help maximize developer productivity and safety
[Nukleus]	16	☀️ Active	Simple and fast Dynamic Modular Structure-based AI, GUI, Cross-Platform Programming Language
[snow-lang]	12	☀️ Active	A functional programming language
[Mastermind]	8	☀️ Active	A custom programming language which compiles to the well-known esolang “Brainfuck”.
[rusch]	2	☀️ Active	Minimal Scheme implemented in Rust
[GLang]	0	☀️ Active	🐶 Dog based, easy to learn language for complete beginners
[Move]	2,284	🌙 Inactive	None
[Dyon]	1,798	🌙 Inactive	A rusty dynamically typed scripting language
[goscript]	1,534	🌙 Inactive	An alternative implementation of Golang specs, written in Rust for embedding or wrapping.
[Differential Datalog]	1,394	🌙 Inactive	DDlog is a programming language for incremental computation. It is well suited for writing programs that continuously update their output in response to input changes. A DDlog programmer does not write incremental algorithms; instead they specify the desired input-output mapping in a declarative manner.
[Tao]	1,105	🌙 Inactive	A statically-typed functional language with generics, typeclasses, sum types, pattern-matching, first-class functions, currying, algebraic effects, associated types, good diagnostics, etc.
[SPWN]	1,062	🌙 Inactive	A language for Geometry Dash triggers
[ClojureRS]	961	🌙 Inactive	Clojure, implemented atop Rust (unofficial)
[Astro]	758	🌙 Inactive	A fun safe language for rapid prototyping and high performance applications
[Ketos]	752	🌙 Inactive	Lisp dialect scripting and extension language for Rust programs
[CSML]	714	🌙 Inactive	CSML is an easy-to-use chatbot programming language and framework.
[Pikelet]	613	🌙 Inactive	A friendly little systems language with first-class types. Very WIP! 🚧 🚧 🚧
[Starlight]	517	🌙 Inactive	JS engine in Rust
[Wu]	476	🌙 Inactive	🐉 A practical game and data language
[Wain]	441	🌙 Inactive	WebAssembly implementation from scratch in Safe Rust with zero dependencies
[CalcuLaTeX]	398	🌙 Inactive	A pretty printing calculator language with support for units. Makes calculations easier and more presentable with real time LaTeX output, along with support for units, variables, and mathematical functions.
[Monkey-Rust]	371	🌙 Inactive	An interpreter for the Monkey programming language written in Rust
[Sphinx]	291	🌙 Inactive	An intepreter for a simple dynamic language written in Rust
[crafting-interpreters-rs]	277	🌙 Inactive	Crafting Interpreters in Rust
[Eldiro]	258	🌙 Inactive	Learn to make your own programming language with Rust
[TablaM]	196	🌙 Inactive	The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications
[atto]	152	🌙 Inactive	An insanely simple self-hosted functional programming language
[Boson]	121	🌙 Inactive	A hybrid programming language written in Rust.
[Minitt]	117	🌙 Inactive	Dependently-typed lambda calculus, Mini-TT, extended and implemented in Rust
[Darksecond/lox]	103	🌙 Inactive	A rust implementation of the lox language
[Voile]	96	🌙 Inactive	Dependently-typed row-polymorphic programming language, evolved from minitt-rs
[Jazz]	91	🌙 Inactive	Jazz - modern and fast programming language.
[Rust-lisp]	84	🌙 Inactive	A small Lisp interpreter written in Rust. Work in progress.
[ssp16asm]	82	🌙 Inactive	A collection of development tools targetting SEGA’s SVP chip found in the Mega Drive/Genesis version of Virtua Racing.
[Rust-Prolog]	80	🌙 Inactive	Rust implementation of prolog based on miniprolog: http://andrej.com/plzoo/html/miniprolog.html
[diatom]	72	🌙 Inactive	The diatom programming language
[Calypso]	66	🌙 Inactive	Calypso is a mostly imperative language with some functional influences that is focused on flexibility and simplicity.
[rulox]	63	🌙 Inactive	Implementation in Rust of lox, the language described in Crafting Interpreters
[Oriel]	56	🌙 Inactive	An interpreter for the 1991 Oriel scripting language
[Crunch]	52	🌙 Inactive	A strongly & statically typed systems level language focused on ease of use, portability and speed, built for the modern age.
[Blazescript]	47	🌙 Inactive	AOT compiled object oriented programming language
[lox-rs]	46	🌙 Inactive	A Lox Interpreter in Rust
[Chili]	42	🌙 Inactive	General-purpose, compiled programming language, focused on productivity, expressiveness and joy of programming™
[Stellar]	40	🌙 Inactive	✨ An open source WIP general programming language for web development built using Rust. ✨
[tox]	36	🌙 Inactive	Tox is a statically typed version programming language that is written in rust.
[rodaine/rlox]	36	🌙 Inactive	Lox Interpreter/REPL written in Rust
[ucg]	36	🌙 Inactive	A Universal Configuration Grammar
[Schwift]	30	🌙 Inactive	An actual programming language for some reason
[Lisp.rs]	26	🌙 Inactive	Scheme Interpreter in Rust
[The Force]	23	🌙 Inactive	A Star Wars themed programming language
[Terbium]	23	🌙 Inactive	A high-level language that doesn’t compromise in performance, made with Rust.
[Synthizer]	21	🌙 Inactive	A simple, experimental functional language for real time additive audio synthesis.
[rctcwyvrn/rlox]	21	🌙 Inactive	Rust implementation of the bytecode VM (clox) from https://craftinginterpreters.com/
[Pr47]	21	🌙 Inactive	The formal development repository for Pr47
[cat-lox]	19	🌙 Inactive	A tree-walk lox interpreter written in Rust.
[Arn]	16	🌙 Inactive	A functional golfing language
[Tethys]	14	🌙 Inactive	A toy functional programming language with a System F-based core calculus - Read-only mirror from sr.ht
[Sligh]	12	🌙 Inactive	A language for certifying specification
[Radicle]	11	🌙 Inactive	an ur-lisp interpreter written in Rust
[loxr]	9	🌙 Inactive	A Rust interpreter for the Lox language
[radogost/rlox]	8	🌙 Inactive	An implementation of lox from the great book http://craftinginterpreters.com implemented in Rust
[Lang]	7	🌙 Inactive	An imperative programming language written in Rust
[sasurau4/lox-rust]	7	🌙 Inactive	Interpreter for lox written by rust
[minipyth]	7	🌙 Inactive	A minimalist programming language
[Iron]	6	🌙 Inactive	A Lisp-based language written in Rust
[rox]	6	🌙 Inactive	A Rust port of Crafting Interpreters
[loxrs]	6	🌙 Inactive	[Outdated] Crafting Interpreters in Rust (Done Part II: A tree-walk interpreter)
[relox]	6	🌙 Inactive	Rust port of the jlox interpreter
[🌌]	6	🌙 Inactive	What if identifiers could be anything? Langjam submission
[loxidation]	5	🌙 Inactive	Lox bytecode compiler and VM in Rust
[justinmayhew/lox]	5	🌙 Inactive	A Rust implementation of Lox from Crafting Interpreters
[lax]	4	🌙 Inactive	a lox interpreter
[roxt]	4	🌙 Inactive	A Lox interpreter written in Rust
[cloxrs]	3	🌙 Inactive	Lox implementation written in Rust
[yarli]	3	🌙 Inactive	Yet Another Rusty Lox Interpreter
[PopperLang]	2	🌙 Inactive	The CLI that group all project to one to finally make the Popper-lang
[rtforth]	1	🌙 Inactive	Forth implemented in Rust for realtime application
[nt591/lox-rust]	1	🌙 Inactive	A Rust implementation of the Crafting Interpreters bytecode VM
[Tron]	0	🌙 Inactive	Statically typed general purpose programming language

*: Parcel is a large project of which the JavaScript transformer (written in Rust) is a small part. The “stars” number here reflects the whole project, which is broader than a programming language project.