🚀 Fast, secure, lightweight containers based on WebAssembly
smoltcp
Counted from the Cargo.toml manifests of the 35 indexed repositories that declare smoltcp as a dependency — not download counts. Dependency data last verified 2026-08-13.
Crates that show up unusually often in smoltcp projects. The most distinctive pairings rank first — crates these projects use far more than the average indexed Rust project does, not just crates that are popular everywhere. Each percentage is the share of smoltcp projects that also use it.
Effortlessly compose, extend, and observe every service in real-time for the first time ever.
A simple, decentralized mesh VPN with WireGuard support.
A Rust port of shadowsocks
🧱 local-first and microVM-backed programmable sandboxes for AI agents
Tool to build & run portable, lightweight, self-contained virtual machines.
Asterinas aims to be a production-grade Linux alternative—memory safe, high-performance, and more.
A lightweight, memory-protected, message-passing kernel for deeply embedded systems.
Simple Yet Powerful Anti-Detect Browser 🍩
A security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution
Rust Linux-compatible kernel
Nym provides strong network-level privacy against sophisticated end-to-end attackers, and anonymous transactions using blinded, re-randomizable, decentralized credentials.
Home of OpenVMM and OpenHCL
custom protocol network proxy
Rusty wrapper for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). This crate makes it easy to develop Rust software that leverages safe, convenient, and performant abstractions for UEFI functionality.
A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel.
DragonOS is an operating system developed from scratch using Rust, with Linux compatibility. It is designed for **Serverless** scenarios.
MOROS: Obscure Rust Operating System 🦉
A simple, fast, and secure operating system for the cloud.
Rust implementation of Tailscale (preview, experimental)
Classic Macintosh emulator
Rust support for seL4 userspace
Distributed immutable data store with strong encryption and authentication
A highly customable, adaptable, runtime agnostic and WASM/WASI friendly Gossip protocol (SWIM) which helps manage cluster membership and member failure detection.
An Amiga emulator written in Rust
Safe, fast, small TCP/UDP-over-QUIC tunnel written in Rust
A Rust-based bare-metal kernel implementing zero-trust execution, cryptographic self-measurement and capability enforced isolation forming the core of the NØNOS operating system.
packets go in, packets go out, you can't explain that
An integrated os-level crates repository for operating system and virtualization development
MicroVM Runtime
Bare Metal (no-std) voice-driven wearable OS for ESP32-S3 smartwatch with a high focus on accessibility and smart home/media control. Written in Rust, using esp-hal as it's hardware abstraction layer.
🐶 Embedded DHCP Server Library