Rust Libraries

• Axum - Web framework that focuses on ergonomics and modularity, HTTP server, APIs
• anyhow - Provides a boxed error type that can hold any error, and helpers for generating an application-level stack trace. Good for function caller logging error and stopping.
• Clap - CLI argument parsing
• crossterm - Low-level cross-platform terminal rendering and event handling
• CSV - Fast CSV parsing with support for serde
• grex - Generate a matching regular expression from the test cases you provide
• GTK4 - GUI Rust bindings for GTK4
• Polars - Dataframes
• Ratatui - terminal user interfaces
• Serde - generic serialization/deserialization framework

Cross Platform GUI

Based on Blessed.rs Native GUI section and A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries | boringcactus and GitHub - flosse/rust-web-framework-comparison: A comparison of some web frameworks and libs written in Rust. Recommendations based on accessibility and productivity.

• Dioxus - full stack cross platform app and web for Rust
• egui - easy to use, pure rust, runs on the web, native, and game engine
• gpui - UI framework from creators of Zed
• Iced - Retained mode UI with a nice API
• Leptos - front end web
• Tauri - cross platform app platform
  • Example: https://github.com/readest/readest

Standard Library

• Command in std::process - Rust (DevDocs) - Command, like shell command execution

See Also

Rust Package Recommendations

Where to find trusted, recommended crates

• Awesome Rust
• Blessed.rs
• crates.io Rust community’s crate registry
• Lib.rs — home for Rust crates - includes library descriptions, download metrics, links to library source and examples