/r/rust/

r/rust

419k members
r/rust is a subreddit with 419k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and self-promotion, and the community frequently discusses rust, looking for, struggling, library, and strugglingwith, 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
: "Best resources to start learning Rust as a beginner?"
4 posts
#2
Self-Promotion
: "I built a weird Rust compiler that runs entirely through GitHub"
3 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Is there a Rust crate/library gap that's bugging you? I'm bored and want to build something"
2 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "Hi everyone! I wanted to ask which framework is better to use for training AI from scratch: Burn or Candle?"
1 post
#5
Pain & Anger
: "Depressed not because of coding, but because of outside pressure. Anyone else feeling like this at my age?"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/rust

#1

Rust

117 posts
#2

Looking For

79 posts
#3

Struggling

25 posts
#4

Library

20 posts
#5

Strugglingwith

17 posts
#6

Topics

16 posts
#7

Project

14 posts
#8

Web

14 posts
#9

Help

13 posts
#10

Code

12 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
: "ssh late.sh - the Clubhouse now has live streaming, synthwave radio, NetHack, DCSS, Brogue, and a whole BBS door games wing :)"
55 posts
#2
🙋 seeking help & advice
: "Has anyone built a complex ui heavy desktop app with Slint, Iced, or egui?"
16 posts
#3
🎙️ discussion
: "I've learned Rust Before C++ and it completely changed the way I code C++"
7 posts
#4
🗞️ news
: "Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly"
5 posts
#5
📸 media
: "Learning-Rust.Github.io: Labs: Project 1 – RESTful API Workspace [Human-Authored!]"
4 posts
#6
📡 official blog
: "Rust 1.98.0 is out"
3 posts
#7
🧠 educational
: "A graph DB in Rust that uses s3 as its primary disk"
3 posts
#8
💼 jobs megathread
: "Official /r/rust "Who's Hiring" thread for job-seekers and job-offerers [Rust 1.98]"
1 post
#9
📅 this week in rust
: "This Week in Rust #665"
1 post
#10
💡 ideas & proposals
: "re-allocating" storage for a local could allow faster code"
1 post

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Yearly
+60k members(16.6%)

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Last updated: August 23, 2026