r/rust is a subreddit with 410k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and ideas, and the community frequently discusses rust, looking for, project, cli, and struggling, and they frequently recommend/review rust ide, ide, and ui framework.
A place for all things related to the Rust programming language—an open-source systems language that emphasizes performance, reliability, and productivity.
Popular Themes in r/rust
#1
Advice Requests
: "I built a living pixel-art café in my terminal that reacts to my CPU/network/disk activity looking for art direction feedback"
4 posts
#2
Ideas
: "Bevy 0.19"
4 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "I rewrote jscpd (copy/paste detector, 223 languages) in Rust for v5 — benchmarks show 24–37x faster than the Node.js version"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/rust
#1
Rust
: "OpenAI joins The Rust Foundation as a Platinun member and donates funds to support Rust maintenance"
315 posts
#2
Looking For
79 posts
#3
Project
: "My first Rust Project - esp32 system resource monitor"
40 posts
#4
Cli
: "Cli for running custom quantum circuits with a state-vector simulator"
30 posts
#5
Struggling
29 posts
#6
Library
: "New cross-platform Library for keyboard and mouse events"
28 posts
#7
Crate
: "Bevy Community Updates: Crates, Plugins, Games (built with Rust)"
24 posts
#8
Tool
: "I was tired of "what commands did I run to set this up?" — so I built this Tool"
22 posts
#9
Web
: "Blitz: building a modular Web engine (by Dioxus Labs' Nico Burns at RustWeek)"
20 posts
#10
Strugglingwith
18 posts
Products Discussed in r/rust
Rust Ide
256 reviews
#1
JetBrains
4.1★ from 88 reviews
#2
Microsoft
4.4★ from 51 reviews
#3
Neovim
4.3★ from 16 reviews
Ide
82 reviews
#1
JetBrains
4.3★ from 20 reviews
#2
Neovim
4.6★ from 9 reviews
#3
Zed
4.1★ from 8 reviews
Ui Framework
34 reviews
#1
Tauri
4.7★ from 3 reviews
#2
React
4.7★ from 3 reviews
#3
Slint
4.3★ from 3 reviews
Flair Used in r/rust
#1
🛠️ project
: "ratatui-hypertile 0.4.0: Hyprland-inspired tiling in your terminal - now with mouse support!"
93 posts
#2
🙋 seeking help & advice
: "How do you get into low-level programming?"
16 posts
#3
🗞️ news
: "The never type is likely to stabilize soon!"
11 posts
#4
🎙️ discussion
: "Ai is making me want to quit everything related to software. Do you feel the same?"
10 posts
#5
🧠 educational
: "FFI in Miri at 8000 segfaults per second (Nia Deckers at RustWeek)"
10 posts
#6
📸 media
: "Giving a talk about rust next week and needed the right apparel"
7 posts
#7
📅 this week in rust
: "This Week in Rust #655"
2 posts
#8
🐝 activity megathread
: "What's everyone working on this week (24/2026)?"
2 posts
#9
🙋 questions megathread
: "Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (24/2026)!"
1 post
#10
💡 ideas & proposals
: "Can anyone relate to that vibe ?"
1 post
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Yearly
+58k members(16.6%)
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Last updated: June 23, 2026