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24 alternatives to A simple, pretty alternative to strace written in Rust

A pretty (simple) alternative to strace. Contribute to JakWai01/lurk development by creating an account on GitHub.

This is a system call tracer written in Rust that provides a simpler and more visually appealing alternative to strace. It's designed for developers who need to monitor and debug system calls made by programs. The tool… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A simple, pretty alternative to strace written in Rust launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark▲321
Hi all, I'm excited to announce Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark that lets you capture and analyze process activity (system calls) and log messages in the same way that Wireshark lets you capture and analyze network packets. If you would like to try it out you can download installers for Windows and macOS and source code for all platforms at https://stratoshark.org. AMA: I'm the goofball whose name is at the top of the "About" box in both applications, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.
2025 · stratoshark.org · its alternatives →
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CodeTracer – A time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust▲334
Hey! We are presenting CodeTracer - a user-friendly time-traveling debugger designed to support a wide range of programming languages: https://github.com/metacraft-labs/codetracer?tab=readme-ov-f... CodeTracer records the execution of a program into a sharable self-contained trace file. You can load the produced trace files in a GUI environment that allows you to move forward and backward through the execution and to examine the history of all memory locations. They say a picture is worth a thousand words — well, a video is even better! Watch the demo below to see…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Error return traces for Go, inspired by Zig▲133
An alternative to stack traces for your Go errors. Contribute to bracesdev/errtrace development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust▲261
A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output - dandavison/delta
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shelgon: A Framework for Building Interactive REPL Shells in Rust▲130
I've been working on Shelgon, a framework that lets you build your own custom REPL shells and interactive CLI applications in Rust. You can use Shelgon to: - Create a custom shell with only a few lines of code - Build interactive debugging tools with persistent state between commands - Develop domain-specific language interpreters with shell-like interfaces - Add REPL capabilities to existing applications Getting started is straightforward - implement a single trait that handles your command execution logic, and Shelgon takes care of the terminal UI, input handling, and async runtime…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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BugStalker - a modern Rust debugger▲115
Rust debugger for Linux x86-64. Contribute to godzie44/BugStalker development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Run – a CLI universal code runner I built while learning Rust▲96
Hi HN — I’m learning Rust and decided to build a universal CLI for running code in many languages. The tool, Run, aims to be a single, minimal dependency utility for: running one-off snippets (from CLI flags), running files, reading and executing piped stdin, and providing language-specific REPLs that you can switch between interactively. I designed it to support both interpreted languages (Python, JS, Ruby, etc.) and compiled languages (Rust, Go, C/C++). It detects languages from flags or file extensions, can compile temporary files for compiled languages, and exposes a unified REPL…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rallyup – Lightweight Wake-on-LAN Scheduler▲141
Hi HN, I’ve wanted a simple solution to handle Wake-on-LAN sequences for my home and work labs to boot up servers in the right order. I was already dabbling in Rust and thought this would be an interesting project to dive deeper and see if it could work well for this kind of network tool. The result is rallyup. rallyup lets you set up server dependencies in a YAML file, so each service (e.g., firewalls, storage, VM hosts) comes online in the right order. It verifies each server’s status before moving to the next. Features: - Dependency-based WOL with VLAN support - Built-in health checks…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints▲96
This project is inspired by some of the asserts in Unreal engine. Due to reliance on core_intrinsics it is necessary to develop using nightly Rust, but there are stubs in place so a production build will not require nightly. I recently released version 0.2 which includes no_std support and adds optional log message arguments to the ensure macro.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Walrus – a Kafka alternative written in Rust▲160
🦭 Distributed log streaming engine built from first principles - nubskr/walrus
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Copper – Open-source robotics in Rust with deterministic log replay▲161
Copper is an operating system for robots - build, run, and replay your entire robot deterministically. - Home · copper-project/copper-rs Wiki
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stakpak 3.0 CLI▲124
run "stakpak --profile readonly", then ask it to list, then nuke some AWS resource https://stakpak.gitbook.io/docs/how-it-works/warden-guardrai...
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser▲95
I’ve been experimenting with Rust lately and wanted a project that would help me explore some of its lower-level and performance-oriented features. Inspired by Sebastian Lague’s videos, I decided to implement my own ray tracer from scratch. The initial goal was just to render a simple 3D scene in the browser at a reasonable frame rate. It evolved into a small renderer that can: • Run locally or on the web using wgpu and WebAssembly • Perform mesh rendering with a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) for acceleration • Simulate both direct and indirect illumination for photorealistic results • Be…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Whirlwind – Async concurrent hashmap for Rust▲140
Hey HN, this is Will and David from Fortress (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41426998). We use a lot of async Rust internally, and created this library out of a need for an async-aware concurrent hashmap since there weren’t many available in the Rust ecosystem. Whirlwind is a sharded HashMap with a fully asynchronous API. Just as dashmap is a replacement for std::sync::RwLock, whirlwind aims to be a replacement for tokio::sync::RwLock. It has a similar design and performance characteristics to dashmap, but seems to perform better in read-heavy workloads with tokio's…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote a tool in Rust for tracking all allocations in a Linux process▲113
allocscope - a memory tracking tool. Contribute to matt-kimball/allocscope development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Teletrace▲131
Open-source tracing platform
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust▲106
cuTile Rust provides a safe, tile-based kernel programming DSL for the Rust programming language. It features a safe host-side API for passing tensors to asynchronously executed kernel functions. - NVlabs/cutile-rs
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MCP-stama – An ultra-fast Rust MCP server with no dependencies▲73
An ultra-fast, single-binary MCP server written in Rust as a lightweight alternative to Node.js/Python. - StamManif/mcp-stama
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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fcp – A significantly faster alternative to cp(1), written in Rust▲88
A significantly faster alternative to the classic Unix cp(1) command, copying large files and directories in a fraction of the time. - Svetlitski/fcp
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made a zero-copy coroutine tracer to find my scheduler's lost wakeups▲49
A cross-language, zero-copy coroutine observability framework based on the cTP shared-memory protocol, utilizing lock-free ring buffers for ultra-low overhead state tracing. - lixiasky-back/coroTracer
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A minimal working Rust / SDL2 / WASM browser game▲82
"Game" is a stretch, but I put together this repo containing a pure Rust app which uses SDL2 and compiles to WASM (and can be run in a browser). Older resources were a bit out of date and a bit too verbose for my purposes, so here's a minimal working example.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rust based AWS Lambda Logs Viewer (TUI)▲57
My first Rust program with support from Cursor :)). few days for idea. 1 night for "talk and fight" with Cursor
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SwimOS Rust – A framework for real-time streaming data applications▲71
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive graphs in Rerun with a Rust port of D3-force▲65
Rerun 0.21 comes with a new graph viewer that's written in Rust and runs in the browser via wasm. It's powered by a new force based layout engine that is a port of much of d3-force to Rust. (The release also contains some other cool stuff like undo/redo implemented on top of a timeseries DB.) We built this with applications in robotics and spatial computing in mind but would love to hear feedback from folks that would see this as useful in other domains as well.
2024 · rerun.io · its alternatives →

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