5 alternatives to rust
rust-lang/rust — Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. (120,998 stars, Apache-2.0, dev-tools, testing, infra).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 3,013 licence-cleared components from rust-lang/rust itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
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| 1 | fuellabs/sway | 7.0 | Apache-2.0 | 61,374 |
| 2 | ziglang/zig | 4.8 | MIT | 43,256 |
| 3 | carbon-language/carbon-lang | 5.9 | Apache-2.0 | 33,914 |
| 4 | parcel-bundler/parcel | 5.1 | MIT | 44,005 |
| 5 | claw-project/claw-compiler | 6.6 | BSD-2-Clause | 45 |
The alternatives in detail
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🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts.score 7.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 61,374 stars · 609 components · search them
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Moved to Codebergscore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 43,256 stars · 3,000 components · search them
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Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)score 5.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 33,914 stars · 762 components · search them
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The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀
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CLAW Compiler for Performance Portabilityscore 6.6/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 45 stars · 156 components · search them
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