r/rust is a subreddit with 409k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses rust, looking for, struggling, cli, and development, 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
Solution Requests
: "Cliccy: an event-driven clipboard manager for Linux (Rust + GTK4, no polling)"
5 posts
#2
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"
3 posts
#3
Ideas
: "I am considering building a polished component library for Ratatui. Keep going or scrrap it?"
2 posts
#4
News
: "Glauber Costa, CEO of Turso, is doing an AMA about rewriting SQLite in Rust"
2 posts
#5
Opportunities
: "Official /r/rust "Who's Hiring" thread for job-seekers and job-offerers [Rust 1.96]"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "Created Knodiq, a DAW written in Rust that natively runs my custom language called KASL"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/rust
#1
Rust
: "A G-code simulator in Rust. Looking for feedback."
298 posts
#2
Looking For
80 posts
#3
Struggling
39 posts
#4
Cli
: "Terminal radio player for Windows — stream radio and control Spotify from the Cli"
37 posts
#5
Development
: "Announcing cheadergen, a new tool for generating C headers from Rust crates"
27 posts
#6
Library
: "New cross-platform Library for keyboard and mouse events"
24 posts
#7
Frustrating
21 posts
#8
Strugglingwith
18 posts
#9
Topics
17 posts
#10
Coding
16 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
: "patent: a TUI that searches 11 registries to tell you if your dev-tool idea already exists"
90 posts
#2
🙋 seeking help & advice
: "How do you get into low-level programming?"
24 posts
#3
🧠 educational
: "FFI in Miri at 8000 segfaults per second (Nia Deckers at RustWeek)"
10 posts
#4
🗞️ news
: "/u/burntsushi health update"
9 posts
#5
🎙️ discussion
: "Go ran faster than Rust. Until I cleared the page cache"
8 posts
#6
📸 media
: "Unsafe Rust running on JVM: shipped unions, function pointers, generics, traits and more to rustc_codegen_jvm! (context and repo link in comments)"
3 posts
#7
📡 official blog
: "Rust Maintainer spotlight: Tiffany Pek Yuan (@tiif)"
3 posts
#8
📅 this week in rust
: "This Week in Rust #655"
2 posts
#9
🐝 activity megathread
: "What's everyone working on this week (24/2026)?"
2 posts
#10
🙋 questions megathread
: "Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (24/2026)!"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/rust
Yearly
+58k members(16.6%)
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Last updated: June 15, 2026