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Zaz – terminal manipulation library

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Zaz is a terminal manipulation library for Rust and C/FFI bindings for other languages.

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pdfcpu – PDF processing library

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

pdfcpu is a PDF processing library written in Go that supports encryption and offers both an API and a command-line interface (CLI).

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Ratatui – create terminal user interfaces

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms Programming, TUI

Ratatui is a Rust crate for cooking up TUIs. It provides a simple and flexible way to create text-based user interfaces.

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RQ – simple Python library

January 18, 2026 Steve Emms Programming

RQ (Redis Queue) is a simple Python library for queueing jobs and processing them in the background with workers.

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Wangle – networking library

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Wangle is a library that makes it easy to build protocols, application clients, and application servers.

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Elixir WebRTC – implementation of the W3C WebRTC API

May 13, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Elixir WebRTC implements the W3C WebRTC API in Elixir, supporting audio, video, ICE, DTLS, RTP and optional DataChannels.

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str0m – Sans I/O WebRTC implementation

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

str0m is a Sans I/O WebRTC implementation in Rust with no internal networking or async runtime, giving applications control over I/O.

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WebRTC

Pion – pure Go implementation of WebRTC

May 1, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Pion WebRTC is a pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API with ICE, DTLS, SRTP, DataChannels, audio, video and broad platform support.

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FTP Client

SuppaFTP – FTP and FTPS client library for Rust

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

SuppaFTP is a Rust FTP and FTPS client library with sync and async APIs, active and passive modes, TLS backends and a built-in CLI.

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PDF

JasperReports – reporting engine written in Java

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

JasperReports is a widely used free and open source business intelligence and reporting engine. It is a reporting library.

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Development Tools

SrTemplate – string template system

December 31, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Mr. strings template (SrTemplate) is a library that allows you to render just text templates. It’s written in Rust.

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Front-end Frameworks

Picnic – lightweight CSS library

December 14, 2024 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Picnic is a lightweight and beautiful library. It’s written in SCSS with many variables and classes (placeholders) to make it easy to extend.

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Development Tools

mogwai – view library for creating GUI applications

December 6, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

mogwai is a library for building asynchronous user interfaces.

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Development Tools

Draco – build client side web application

December 2, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Draco is a Rust library for building client side web applications with Web Assembly.

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Testing Software

Vizia – declarative GUI library

November 30, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Vizia is a declarative desktop GUI framework for the Rust programming language.

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Development Tools

Sycamore – next generation Rust UI library

November 28, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Sycamore is a library for creating reactive web apps. Write performant user interfaces using the power of fine-grained reactivity.

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Testing Software

Silkenweb – library for building reactive web apps

November 26, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

Silkenweb is a library for building reactive web apps.

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Testing Software

hyper – protective and efficient HTTP library

November 25, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

hyper is billed as a protective and efficient HTTP library for all.

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Testing Software

egui – immediate mode GUI

November 22, 2024 Eilidih Parris Programming

egui (pronounced “e-gooey”) is a simple, fast, and highly portable immediate mode GUI library for Rust

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PDF

CamlPDF – OCaml library for reading, writing and modifying PDF files

September 23, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

CamlPDF is an OCaml library for reading, writing and modifying PDF files.

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