best-of-rust-on-embedded-linux

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This curated list contains 62 awesome open-source projects with a total of 76K stars grouped into 26 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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Contents

• OTA Integration 1 projects
• User Interfaces 1 projects
• Home Automation Protocols 3 projects
• Smart Grid Protocols 7 projects
• Industrial Control System Protocols 1 projects
• Network Monitoring Protocols 0 projects
• Robotics 3 projects
• Graphics 1 projects
• AI Engines 2 projects
• Network Management 1 projects
• Inter Service Communication 1 projects
• Inter Process Communication 6 projects
• Finite State Machines 4 projects
• Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) 2 projects
• Chip Drivers 1 projects
• Trusted Platform Module 1 projects
• Character Device Drivers 3 projects
• Industrial I/O subsystem 1 projects
• Platform Management 1 projects
• Continous Integration 1 projects
• Yocto Layers 4 projects
• Yocto 1 projects
• Cross Compilation 2 projects
• Time Synchronization 3 projects
• Testing 3 projects
• Tools 6 projects
• Others 2 projects

Explanation

• 🥇🥈🥉  Combined project-quality score
• ⭐️  Star count from GitHub
• 🐣  New project (less than 6 months old)
• 💤  Inactive project (6 months no activity)
• 💀  Dead project (12 months no activity)
• 📈📉  Project is trending up or down
• ➕  Project was recently added
• ❗️  Warning (e.g. missing/risky license)
• 👨‍💻  Contributors count from GitHub
• 🔀  Fork count from GitHub
• 📋  Issue count from GitHub
• ⏱️  Last update timestamp on package manager
• 📥  Download count from package manager
• 📦  Number of dependent projects

OTA Integration

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• memfault-linux-sdk (🥇7 · ⭐ 36) - Memfault SDK for embedded Linux systems... ❗Unlicensed

User Interfaces

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• slint (🥇34 · ⭐ 19K) - Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit to build native user.. ❗Unlicensed

Home Automation Protocols

rs-matter (🥇18 · ⭐ 390) - Rust implementation of the Matter protocol. Status: Experimental. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 27 · 🔀 47 · 📦 7 · 📋 65 - 35% open · ⏱️ 16.06.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/project-chip/rs-matter
  

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• knxkit (🥉5 · ⭐ 4 · 🐣) - EPL-2.0
• knx-rust (🥉3 · ⭐ 3 · 💀) - Library implementing the KNXNet/Ip protocol. ❗Unlicensed

Smart Grid Protocols

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• rust-ocpp (🥇17 · ⭐ 89) - Libraries for ocpp 1.6, 2.0.1 and 2.1. Apache-2
• openleadr-rs (🥈12 · ⭐ 41) - OpenADR 3.0 VTN and VEN implementation in Rust. ❗Unlicensed
• sunspec_rs (🥈8) - MIT
• sunspec (🥉6 · ⭐ 8) - 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

Industrial Control System Protocols

opcua (🥇18 · ⭐ 550 · 💤) - A client and server implementation of the OPC UA specification.. MPL-2.0

• GitHub (👨‍💻 31 · 🔀 140 · 📦 53 · 📋 240 - 46% open · ⏱️ 08.10.2024):

   git clone https://github.com/locka99/opcua
  

Network Monitoring Protocols

Robotics

ros2_rust (🥇19 · ⭐ 1.1K) - Rust bindings for ROS 2. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 48 · 🔀 160 · 📋 180 - 31% open · ⏱️ 08.06.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/ros2-rust/ros2_rust
  

rosrust (🥇19 · ⭐ 760) - Pure Rust implementation of a ROS client library. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 19 · 🔀 77 · 📦 230 · 📋 120 - 40% open · ⏱️ 03.02.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/adnanademovic/rosrust
  

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• r2r (🥉15 · ⭐ 370) - Minimal ROS 2 Rust bindings. ❗Unlicensed

Graphics

rust-skia (🥇23 · ⭐ 1.6K) - Rust Bindings for the Skia Graphics Library. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 61 · 🔀 150 · 📥 330 · 📦 9 · 📋 360 - 14% open · ⏱️ 06.06.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/rust-skia/rust-skia
  

AI Engines

ort (🥇26 · ⭐ 1.4K) - Fast ML inference & training for ONNX models in Rust. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 44 · 🔀 140 · 📦 3.2K · 📋 270 - 0% open · ⏱️ 18.06.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/pykeio/ort
  

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• onnxruntime (🥉15 · ⭐ 300 · 💀) - Rust wrapper for Microsofts ONNX Runtime (version 1.8). Apache-2

Network Management

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• connman-rs (🥇4 · ⭐ 5 · 💀) - ConnMan D-Bus bindings in Rust. Apache-2

Inter Service Communication

tonic (🥇33 · ⭐ 11K) - A native gRPC client & server implementation with async/await support. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 280 · 🔀 1.1K · 📦 45K · 📋 920 - 32% open · ⏱️ 19.06.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/hyperium/tonic
  

Inter Process Communication

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• zbus (🥇25 · ⭐ 510) - 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-pure (🥉6 · ⭐ 13) - Pure Rust implementation of a D-Bus client. Apache-2
• dbus-bytestream (🥉6 · ⭐ 6 · 💀) - Native D-Bus implementation for Rust. ❗️LGPL-2.1
• async-rustbus (🥉2 · ⭐ 2 · 💀) - An asynchronous implementation of the DBus protocol.. ❗Unlicensed

Finite State Machines

statig (🥇16 · ⭐ 680) - Hierarchical state machines for designing event-driven systems. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 13 · 🔀 29 · 📦 38 · 📋 36 - 16% open · ⏱️ 09.06.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/mdeloof/statig
  

rust-fsm (🥈15 · ⭐ 210 · 💤) - Finite state machine framework for Rust with readable specifications. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 6 · 🔀 22 · 📦 160 · 📋 6 - 16% open · ⏱️ 13.06.2024):

   git clone https://github.com/eugene-babichenko/rust-fsm
  

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• finny (🥉8 · ⭐ 73 · 💀) - Finite State Machines for Rust. ❗Unlicensed
• rust-extfsm (🥉8 · ⭐ 49 · 💀) - Extended Finite State Machine library in Rust with internal.. Apache-2

Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)

linux-embedded-hal (🥇21 · ⭐ 260) - Implementation of the `embedded-hal` traits for Linux.. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 29 · 🔀 46 · 📦 1.5K · 📋 42 - 50% 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

• GitHub (👨‍💻 24 · 🔀 25 · 📦 980 · 📋 32 - 31% open · ⏱️ 26.04.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/dbrgn/embedded-hal-mock
  

Chip Drivers

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• ftdi-embedded-hal (🥇15 · ⭐ 40) - Implementation of Rust Embedded HAL traits for FTDI devices. MIT

Trusted Platform Module

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• tss2-fapi-rs (🥇6 · ⭐ 9) - Rust wrapper for the TSS 2.0 FAPI. ❗Unlicensed

Character Device Drivers

rust-i2cdev (🥇20 · ⭐ 220) - Rust library for interfacing with i2c devices under Linux. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 29 · 🔀 54 · 📦 1K · 📋 32 - 18% open · ⏱️ 04.03.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-i2cdev
  

rust-spidev (🥉17 · ⭐ 130) - Rust library providing access to spidev devices under Linux. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 16 · 🔀 32 · 📦 820 · 📋 11 - 9% open · ⏱️ 04.03.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-spidev
  

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• gpio-cdev (🥉17 · ⭐ 220 · 💀) - Rust interface to the Linux GPIO Character Device API.. Apache-2

Industrial I/O subsystem

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• rust-industrial-io (🥇15 · ⭐ 51) - Rust interface to the Linux Industrial I/O subsystem. MIT

Platform Management

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• mctp-rs (🥇10 · ⭐ 8) - Rust crates for MCTP protocol support, on Linux and embedded. Apache-2

Continous Integration

actions-rust-cross (🥇18 · ⭐ 170) - GitHub Action to compile Rust with cross. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 7 · 🔀 20 · 📦 1.1K · 📋 36 - 13% open · ⏱️ 12.04.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/houseabsolute/actions-rust-cross
  

Yocto Layers

meta-rust (🥇15 · ⭐ 220) - OpenEmbedded/Yocto layer for Rust and Cargo. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 64 · 🔀 130 · 📋 160 - 38% open · ⏱️ 24.05.2025):

   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 (🥉9 · ⭐ 16 · 📉) - A Yocto layer with recipes for building Slint. MIT
• meta-rugix (🥉5 · 🐣) - Yocto layers for Rugix. Apache-2

Yocto

kas (🥇21 · ⭐ 460) - Setup tool for bitbake based projects. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 79 · 🔀 180 · 📦 93 · 📋 120 - 21% open · ⏱️ 16.06.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/siemens/kas
  

Cross Compilation

cross (🥇30 · ⭐ 7.4K) - Zero setup cross compilation and cross testing of Rust crates. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 140 · 🔀 400 · 📥 2.3M · 📦 350 · 📋 810 - 24% open · ⏱️ 24.05.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/cross-rs/cross
  

cargo-zigbuild (🥉25 · ⭐ 2K) - Compile Cargo project with zig as linker. MIT

• GitHub (👨‍💻 31 · 🔀 70 · 📥 210K · 📦 140 · 📋 150 - 21% open · ⏱️ 30.05.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/rust-cross/cargo-zigbuild
  

Time Synchronization

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• ntpd-rs (🥇22 · ⭐ 890 · 📈) - A full-featured implementation of the Network Time Protocol,.. ❗Unlicensed
• statime (🥉18 · ⭐ 240) - Implementation of the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) in Rust. ❗Unlicensed
• pps-time (🥉2 · ⭐ 2 · 🐣) - A Rust interface for PPS devices. ❗Unlicensed

Testing

insta (🥇30 · ⭐ 2.5K) - A snapshot testing library for rust. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 60 · 🔀 120 · 📥 200K · 📦 13K · 📋 310 - 17% open · ⏱️ 18.06.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/mitsuhiko/insta
  

proptest (🥉27 · ⭐ 1.9K) - Hypothesis-like property testing for Rust. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 81 · 🔀 180 · 📦 43K · 📋 290 - 44% open · ⏱️ 14.06.2025):

   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

Tools

miri (🥈25 · ⭐ 5.2K) - An interpreter for Rusts mid-level intermediate representation. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 320 · 🔀 380 · 📋 1.1K - 13% open · ⏱️ 19.06.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/miri
  

divan (🥈19 · ⭐ 1.2K) - Fast and simple benchmarking for Rust projects. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 9 · 🔀 33 · 📦 1.1K · 📋 49 - 73% open · ⏱️ 14.04.2025):

   git clone https://github.com/nvzqz/divan
  

cargo-call-stack (🥉12 · ⭐ 630 · 💤) - Whole program static stack analysis. Apache-2

• GitHub (👨‍💻 11 · 🔀 51 · 📦 1 · 📋 60 - 61% open · ⏱️ 28.10.2024):

   git clone https://github.com/japaric/cargo-call-stack
  

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• clippy (🥇28 · ⭐ 12K) - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust.. ❗Unlicensed
• rugix (🥉16 · ⭐ 83) - A suite of open-source tools to build and deploy reliable embedded Linux.. Apache-2
• duvet (🥉10 · ⭐ 76) - A requirements traceability tool. Apache-2

Others

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• snmp2 (🥇8 · ⭐ 35 · 🐣) - Dependency-free basic SNMP v1/v2/v3 client in Rust. Apache-2
• snmp_mp (🥉5 · ⭐ 27 · 💤) - A pure-Rust library for SNMPv3. Apache-2

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Books

• Comprehensive Rust: This is the Rust course used by the Android team at Google. It provides you the material to quickly teach Rust.
• The Rust Fuzzing Book: Guides and tutorials on how to fuzz Rust code.

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