Best Rust Developer Tools

119 curated tools for Rust developers, ranked by quality score.

61Good

Starship

The minimal, blazing-fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

Active54.5kopen-source

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61Good

Zed

A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom

Active76.2kopen-source

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61Good

Alacritty

The fastest terminal emulator, GPU-accelerated and minimal

Active62.7kopen-source

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58Fair

ripgrep

Blazingly fast recursive search that respects your .gitignore

Active60.4kopen-source

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58Fair

bat

A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration

Active57.4kopen-source

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58Fair

Helix

A post-modern modal text editor with built-in LSP support

Active43.2kopen-source

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56Fair

Nushell

A new type of shell that works with structured data

Active38.6kopen-source

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53Fair

fd

A simple, fast, and user-friendly alternative to find

Active41.9kopen-source

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53Fair

zoxide

A smarter cd command that learns your habits

Active33.9kopen-source

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53Fair

fish

A smart and user-friendly command line shell

Active32.8kopen-source

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53Fair

yazi

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

Active33.3kopen-source

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52Fair

goose

an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM

Active31.9kopen-source

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51Fair

delta

Beautiful syntax-highlighted diffs for Git and the terminal

Active29.3kopen-source

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51Fair

Zellij

A modern terminal multiplexer with batteries included

Active29.6kopen-source

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50Fair

Atuin

Magical shell history with sync, search, and stats

Active28.5kopen-source

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49Fair

WezTerm

A GPU-accelerated terminal emulator configured with Lua

Active24.6kopen-source

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47Fair

Vibe Kanban

Get 10X more out of Claude Code, Codex or any coding agent

Active22.1kopen-source

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42Fair

eza

A modern replacement for ls with colors, icons, and Git awareness

Active20.3kopen-source

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42Fair

hyperfine

A command-line benchmarking tool with statistical analysis

Active27.6kopen-source

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41Fair

Meeting Minutes

Privacy first, AI meeting assistant with 4x faster Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Olla...

Active10.1kopen-source

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39Emerging

dynamo

A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework

Active6.2kopen-source

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39Emerging

Memvid

Memory layer for AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. Give your agen...

Active13.3kopen-source

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38Emerging

Netvisor

Clean network diagrams. One-time setup, zero upkeep.

Active4.1kopen-source

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38Emerging

IronCalc

Main engine of the IronCalc ecosystem

Active3.8kopen-source

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37Emerging

Fnox

encrypted/remote secret manager

Active1.2kopen-source

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37Emerging

Meteroid

Open-source Pricing and Billing Infrastructure 🚀 Subscription management, Invoicing, Pricing, Usage-based billing, C...

Active989open-source

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37Emerging

Chess Tui

Play chess from your terminal 🦀

Active973open-source

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37Emerging

Flow Like

Flow-Like: Strongly Typed Enterprise Scale Workflows. Built for scalability, speed, seamless AI integration and rich ...

Active597open-source

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37Emerging

Stoolap

A Modern Embedded SQL Database written in Rust

Active879open-source

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36Emerging

zerobrew

A 5-20x faster experimental Homebrew alternative

Active6.6kopen-source

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36Emerging

Filessh

A fast and convenient TUI file browser for remote servers

Active207open-source

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36Emerging

tuicr

A human-in-the-loop code review TUI for AI-generated changes.

Active361open-source

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36Emerging

tylax

A bi-directional converter between Typst and LaTeX. Available as both a CLI tool and a Web interface.

Active238open-source

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36Emerging

Llumen

🕯️ A lightweight but powerful LLM chat application

Active80open-source

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36Emerging

Pdf Sign

PDF signing utility supporting GPG and Sigstore (Google, GitHub, Microsoft accounts / keyless OIDC) signatures, multi...

Active64open-source

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36Emerging

Repeat

Spaced repetition, in your terminal

Active363open-source

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36Emerging

Windows 11 Clipboard History For Linux

A beautiful, Windows 11-style Clipboard History Manager for Linux 💅

Active486open-source

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35Emerging

Gitlogue

A cinematic Git commit replay tool for the terminal, turning your Git history into a living, animated story.

Active4.3kopen-source

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34Emerging

dust

A more intuitive version of du written in Rust

Active11.3kopen-source

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34Emerging

Taws

Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager

Active2.1kopen-source

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34Emerging

Oxdraw

Diagram as Code Tool Written in Rust with Draggable Editing

Active2.2kopen-source

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33Emerging

Agentfs

The filesystem for agents.

Active2.3kopen-source

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33Emerging

mermaid-rs-renderer

A fast native Rust Mermaid diagram renderer. No browser required. 500-1000x faster than mermaid-cli.

Active1.0kopen-source

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33Emerging

ffmpreg

An experimental safe multimedia toolkit

Active878open-source

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33Emerging

ttl

Fast, modern traceroute with real-time TUI, per-hop stats, ASN/geo lookup, ECMP detection, and MPLS label parsing. A ...

Active799open-source

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33Emerging

wiremix

Simple TUI audio mixer for PipeWire

Active733open-source

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33Emerging

Treemd

A (TUI/CLI) markdown navigator with tree-based structural navigation.

Active551open-source

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33Emerging

Ekphos

A lightweight, fast, terminal-based markdown research tool inspired by Obsidian

Active843open-source

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33Emerging

Work Tuimer

Simple, keyboard-driven TUI for time-tracking that allows you to quickly add time blocks and automatically group time...

Active254open-source

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33Emerging

Dz6

A vim-inspired, TUI-based hexadecimal editor

Active105open-source

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33Emerging

Moss

Rust Linux-compatible kernel

Active1.9kopen-source

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33Emerging

Run

Universal multi-language runner and smart REPL written in Rust.

Active912open-source

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33Emerging

Firm

A text-based work management system for technologists.

Active787open-source

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33Emerging

Chhoto Url

A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

Active730open-source

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33Emerging

Otterlang

Otterlang programming language 🦦

Active670open-source

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33Emerging

Cloudflare Speed Cli

CLI for internet speed test via cloudflare

Active737open-source

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33Emerging

Superseedr

A Rust BitTorrent Client in your Terminal

Active520open-source

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33Emerging

Tsql

🐘 tsql — A modern PostgreSQL manager TUI

Active371open-source

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33Emerging

Cc Switch Cli

⭐️ A cross-platform CLI All-in-One assistant tool for Claude Code, Codex & Gemini CLI.

Active723open-source

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33Emerging

Neura Hustle Tracker

An open-source time-tracking tool for monitoring your productivity with privacy-first approach. Own your hustle, opti...

Active220open-source

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32Emerging

vestige

Cognitive memory for AI agents — FSRS-6 spaced repetition, 29 brain modules, 3D dashboard, single 22MB Rust binary. M...

Active398open-source

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32Emerging

archlint

Fast architecture smell detector for TypeScript/JavaScript

Active131open-source

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32Emerging

Note67

A private, local meeting notes assistant. Capture audio, transcribe locally with Whisper, and generate AI-powered sum...

Active183open-source

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32Emerging

Tokuin

CLI tool – estimates LLM tokens/costs and runs provider-aware load tests for OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or custom...

Active118open-source

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32Emerging

Blogr

Write, edit, and publish your blog without ever leaving your terminal!

Active326open-source

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30Emerging

bluetui

🛜 TUI for managing bluetooth on Linux

Active2.6kopen-source

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30Emerging

impala

🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linux

Active2.4kopen-source

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30Emerging

Deepseek Ocr.rs

Rust multi‑backend OCR/VLM engine (DeepSeek‑OCR, PaddleOCR‑VL, DotsOCR) with DSQ quantization and an OpenAI‑compatibl...

Active2.1kopen-source

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29Emerging

rip

Fuzzy find and kill processes from your terminal

Active427open-source

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29Emerging

talos-pilot

Talos TUI for real-time node monitoring, log streaming, etcd health, and diagnostics

Active200open-source

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29Emerging

flow

A keyboard-first Kanban board for your terminal workflows

Active155open-source

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29Emerging

petit

Minimal lightweight task orchestrator in Rust

Active128open-source

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29Emerging

Soulbeet

Automated music downloader and manager integrating Slskd and Beets.

Active380open-source

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29Emerging

Chroma

🌈 Shader-based audio visualizer for the terminal

Active165open-source

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29Emerging

Infera

A DuckDB extension for in-database inference

Active127open-source

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29Emerging

Silentkeys

Real time, privacy first, low latency push to talk using Parakeet fully on device with Tauri and ORT.

Active71open-source

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29Emerging

Chrome2moz

chrome extension to firefox extension converter

Active67open-source

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29Emerging

Secluso

A privacy-preserving home security camera that uses end-to-end encryption. (Secluso was previously named Privastead.)

Active1.1kopen-source

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29Emerging

Adabraka Ui

A ui component library for building desktop applications in rust

Active361open-source

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29Emerging

Pipedash

Manage CI/CD pipelines from multiple providers (self hosted and desktop app)

Active1.0kopen-source

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29Emerging

Spritefusion Pixel Snapper

A tool to snap pixels to a perfect grid. Designed to fix messy and inconsistent pixel art generated by AI.

Slowing1.4kopen-source

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29Emerging

FreeMDU

Open hardware and software tools for communicating with Miele appliances via their optical diagnostic interface

Active1.0kopen-source

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29Emerging

Mdserve

Fast markdown preview server with live reload and theme support.

Active388open-source

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29Emerging

Ovim

macOS system wide vim mode

Active371open-source

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28Emerging

TabNine

AI code completion that runs locally or in the cloud

Slowing10.8kfreemium

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28Emerging

ferrite-json

the json validator that actually tells you how to fix your mistakes

Slowing104open-source

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28Emerging

Fripack

Package your Frida script into an executable.

Slowing198open-source

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28Emerging

Toktop

llm usage monitor in terminal

Slowing156open-source

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28Emerging

Needle

TUI that highlights the GitHub PRs that need you

Slowing139open-source

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28Emerging

Agentjson

The parser that repairs broken JSON output for AI Agent Pipelines

Slowing90open-source

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28Emerging

Hindsight

GitHub-style git activity visualizer for your terminal.

Slowing91open-source

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28Emerging

Pixo

High-performance image compression library written in Rust.

Slowing392open-source

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26Emerging

Shimmy

⚡ Python-free Rust inference server — OpenAI-API compatible. GGUF + SafeTensors, hot model swap, auto-discovery, sing...

Slowing3.7kopen-source

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25Emerging

Corroded

Illegal rust

Slowing1.7kopen-source

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25Emerging

xray

A simple, intuitive, and light universal UI capture and inspection tool for macOS

Slowing254open-source

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25Emerging

miditui

An interactive terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback—written in Rust

Slowing182open-source

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25Emerging

Tunes

A Rust library for music composition, synthesis, and audio generation. Build complex musical pieces with an intuitive...

Slowing122open-source

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25Emerging

Hpcrypt

High-performance cryptography library in 100% safe Rust

Slowing87open-source

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25Emerging

NRelay

W.I.P Ngrok Alternative: Self-hosted and open-source OOB reverse tunnel (TCP/UDP/SNI/HTTP/MC)

Slowing94open-source

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25Emerging

Ratifact

Track and manage build artifacts from multiple programming languages. Built with Ratatui

Slowing83open-source

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25Emerging

Tui Piechart

A customizable pie chart widget for Rust TUI applications.

Slowing60open-source

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25Emerging

Install Nothing

A terminal application that simulates installing things but doesn't actually install anything

Slowing1.3kopen-source

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25Emerging

Xleak

A fast terminal Excel viewer with an interactive TUI. Features full-text search, formula display, lazy loading for la...

Slowing1.3kopen-source

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25Emerging

Reddix

Reddix – Reddit, refined for the terminal.

Slowing918open-source

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25Emerging

TinyETL

Fast, zero-config ETL in a single binary

Slowing281open-source

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25Emerging

Network Monitor

A real-time network connection monitoring tool built with Rust and GTK4, displaying active connections with live I/O ...

Slowing270open-source

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25Emerging

Rustbpe

The missing tiktoken training code

Slowing369open-source

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25Emerging

Xmas.JS

Xmas.JS is a lightweight, high-performance JavaScript/TypeScript runtime

Slowing256open-source

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25Emerging

Numr

Text calculator inspired by Numi - natural language expressions, variables, unit conversions

Slowing212open-source

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23Emerging

Gausian_native_editor

Gausian - Rust-based local video editor for AI video production

Slowing1.1kopen-source

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20Emerging

RustGPT

An transformer based LLM. Written completely in Rust

Slowing3.1kopen-source

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19Emerging

PhantomTask

A tool to play with scheduled tasks on Windows, in Rust

Slowing120open-source

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19Emerging

Dockrtui

A fast, modern and keyboard-driven terminal dashboard for Docker — built with Rust and Ratatui

Slowing111open-source

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19Emerging

Parlance

Decentralized peer-to-peer messaging with bootstrap discovery, direct connections, and no centralized message infrast...

Slowing80open-source

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19Emerging

Hptls

High-performance TLS/DTLS/QUIC library in 100% safe Rust

Slowing73open-source

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19Emerging

ThinkUtils

A powerful native desktop app for ThinkPad users on Linux. Control fan speeds, optimize battery health, tune CPU perf...

Slowing77open-source

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19Emerging

Devstrip

devstrip is a lightweight CLI that frees developer disk space by pruning stale build artifacts and caches on macOS.

Slowing56open-source

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13Emerging

Warp

The modern terminal with AI built in

Unknownfreemium

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13Emerging

Amazon Q Developer

AI-powered developer assistant with terminal autocomplete (formerly Fig)

Unknownfreemium

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