/r/rust/

r/rust

415k members
r/rust is a subreddit with 415k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, 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
: "I Ported My Browser Game from TypeScript to Rust and Bevy - My Thoughts and Performance Comparison"
7 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Should I go with Tauri/Rust for just a dental clinic management desktop app?"
5 posts

Popular Topics in r/rust

#1

Rust

119 posts
#2

Looking For

79 posts
#3

Struggling

26 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
: "3D ascii tetris"
78 posts
#2
🙋 seeking help & advice
: "Oxc (popular front-end tooling) forked my parser but deliberately removed my copyright notice"
18 posts
#3
🎙️ discussion
: "So long r/rust, and thanks for all the Slop!"
14 posts
#4
🗞️ news
: "'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman"
9 posts
#5
📸 media
: "Compiling Rust to JVM is now ~36x faster after a rewrite of stack map generation and more refactors to rustc_codegen_jvm! (context, repo links and script to reproduce in comments!)"
9 posts
#6
🧠 educational
: "mmap behind the scenes in a database"
8 posts
#7
📡 official blog
: "crates.io: development update"
5 posts
#8
🙋 questions megathread
: "Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (30/2026)!"
3 posts
#9
💡 ideas & proposals
: "Any good non fungible blockchain ai cloud framework for rust"
2 posts
#10
📅 this week in rust
: "This Week in Rust #660"
2 posts

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Yearly
+59k members(16.7%)

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Last updated: July 23, 2026