Top 13 Rust Learning Projects

anki

1 1,157 25,311 9.8 Rust

Anki is a smart spaced repetition flashcard program

Project mention: Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-21

Careful using the Anki name, the original author of the app recently registered a trademark.
> Anki is a registered trademark of Ankitects Pty Ltd.
https://apps.ankiweb.net/
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com featured

InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
rust-by-practice

2 7 13,484 4.2 Rust

Learning Rust By Practice, narrowing the gap between beginner and skilled-dev through challenging examples, exercises and projects.

Project mention: 🦀 Week 1 of Learning Rust: Ownership Broke My Brain (and That’s Okay) | dev.to | 2025-05-25

eyond just reading, I spent a good amount of time working through the interactive exercises on RUST BY PRACTICE website.
Rust-Flashcards

3 3 649 3.0 Rust

Over 550 flashcards to learn Rust from first principles. Written in markdown with script to convert them to an Anki deck or PDF file.
rust-book-fr

4 1 204 0.0 Rust

:fr: French translation of the book "The Rust Programming Language"
refactoring-to-rust

5 2 115 2.0 Rust

Code to accompany Refactoring to Rust

Project mention: Refactoring to Rust: integrate Rust performance surgically into other languages | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-18
rust-notes

6 2 60 0.0 Rust

Terse Rust learning material. :crab:
tinyrenderer_rs

7 1 56 1.5 Rust

tinyrenderer implementation using Rust
Stream

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Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
helix-shortcut-quiz

8 1 36 5.8 Rust

Learn the helix editor keymap on the web!
Drumsthesia

9 3 26 4.1 Rust

Drumsthesia - Rock out on your electronic drum kit!
forne

10 1 17 6.4 Rust

A Turing-complete but dead-simple spaced repetition CLI that helps you learn stuff.
tinyraytracer_rs

11 1 3 2.0 Rust

tinyraytracer implementation using Rust
learning-rust-trust-dns-resolver

12 6 0 0.0 Rust

Learning rust while using the trust-dns-resolver crate.
AdventOfCode23_rust

13 1 0 7.9 Rust

AoC 2023 learning Rust

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms

2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2025
AnkiBuddy: Automating Flashcard Creation for Medical Students

1 project | dev.to | 18 Aug 2025
Refactoring to Rust: integrate Rust performance surgically into other languages

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2025
Spaced Repetition Memory System

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 May 2025
Simple Hack to Learn 2X Faster

2 projects | dev.to | 28 Dec 2024
Diary of a Software Developer #6 - End-of-week wrap-up

1 project | dev.to | 7 Sep 2024
How to Speak Fluent English?

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2024
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Learning projects in Rust? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	anki	25,311
2	rust-by-practice	13,484
3	Rust-Flashcards	649
4	rust-book-fr	204
5	refactoring-to-rust	115
6	rust-notes	60
7	tinyrenderer_rs	56
8	helix-shortcut-quiz	36
9	Drumsthesia	26
10	forne	17
11	tinyraytracer_rs	3
12	learning-rust-trust-dns-resolver	0
13	AdventOfCode23_rust	0