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24 alternatives to Halloy

IRC application written in Rust

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Halloy launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    I started working on Halloy back in 2022, with the goal of giving something back to the community I’ve been a part of for the past two decades. I wanted to create a modern, multi-platform IRC client written in Rust. Three years later, I’ve made new friends who have become core contributors, and there are now over 200 people idling in our #halloy channel on Libera. My hope is that this client will outlive me and that IRC will live on.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A terminal-based text editor written in Rust. Contribute to gchp/iota development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. Contribute to ducaale/xh development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I made a bridge (https://github.com/fzyzcjy/flutter_rust_bridge v2.0.0) between Flutter and Rust, which auto translates syntaxes like arbitrary types, &mut, async, traits, results, closure (callback), lifetimes, etc. The goal is to make a bridge between the two, seamlessly as if working in one single language. Then, as an example, I showed how to write Rust applications with GUI by utilizing Flutter. That is discussed in the link in details. To play with it, please visit the GitHub repo, or refer to the end of the article for detailed folders and commands. When I…

    2024 · cjycode.com · its alternatives →

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    Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required - ekzhang/rustpad

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A World of Warcraft addon manager written in Rust. - ajour/ajour

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    lambdock - Modern, hyper-hackable, Wayland-native desktop dock application (C and Guile Scheme + GTK4) w/ REPL

    Aug 2026 · codeberg.org · its alternatives →

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    Hello everyone, Today we released iceoryx2 v0.4! iceoryx2 is a service-based inter-process communication (IPC) library designed to make communication between processes as fast as possible - like Unix domain sockets or message queues, but orders of magnitude faster and easier to use. It also comes with advanced features such as circular buffers, history, event notifications, publish-subscribe messaging, and a decentralized architecture with no need for a broker. For example, if you're working in robotics and need to process frames from a camera across multiple processes, iceoryx2 makes it…

    2024 · ekxide.io · its alternatives →

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    A high-performance CLI to benchmark HTTP/3 servers

    2024 · crates.io · its alternatives →

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    HTTP client/libcurl TUI front end in Rust, with request + key storage - PThorpe92/CuTE

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Last week Cloudflare released Cap'n Web [1], a schema-free capability-based RPC protocol. I built capn-rs this week - a Rust implementation with full wire protocol compatibility. Links: GitHub: https://github.com/currentspace/capn-rs Crates: https://crates.io/crates/capnweb-server API docs: https://docs.rs/capnweb-server What's working: Wire compatibility verified via integration tests against TypeScript reference Multi-transport: HTTP batch, WebSocket, WebTransport (HTTP/3) Complete IL (intermediate language) expression evaluator…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    API prototyping/mocking server & rust unit tests library to mimic external 3rd party API endpoints with Rhai scripting capabilities - rustrum/apate

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    📶 Troubleshoot problems with your Internet connection - jesusprubio/up

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sockudo▲14

    High-performance Pusher alternative in Rust

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    HN discussion about the initial release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112273

    2023 · seri.tools · its alternatives →

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    Netty-rs is a networking library written in Rust that is meant to help create stateful and p2p application level protocols.

    2021 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →

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    Set up a modern rust+react web app by running one command. - GitHub - Wulf/create-rust-app: Set up a modern rust+react web app by running one command.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN — I just open-sourced Hibana and hibana-agent. Hibana is an Affine MPST runtime for Rust: - global choreography -> compile-time projection -> role-local execution - core is no_std / no_alloc-oriented - deterministic route/offer/recv/decode model Repo: https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana Demo (AI control with session-typed branching): https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana-agent

    Feb 2026 · hibanaworks.dev · its alternatives →

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    AnyLeaf: Cutting-edge SUAS hardware

    2021 · anyleaf.org · its alternatives →

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    A simple performant GeoIP server written in Rust using MaxMind DBs with auto database update - alisinabh/atlas

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Beam▲8

    A HTTP client for developers built with Rust

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    About a year ago I was working on a project with mirrored Kubernetes clusters deployed across various regions. Constantly switching contexts was a big pain for me and I badly needed something more practical to work with multiple clusters, ideally simultaneously. At that time everyone was talking about Rust and I really wanted to try it out. I then found Tauri, a framework to build GUI apps with Rust + JavaScript. I was sold. I learned Rust and built the app I always wanted to use. Fast, lightweight and with the ability to connect to multiple clusters simultaneously. Fast forward to today,…

    2023 · aptakube.com · its alternatives →

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