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24 alternatives to Inception: Automatic Rust Trait Implementation by Induction
Hi HN, I thought this would be a good place to share a little puzzle I've been working on. Inception is a Rust library that helps you share behaviors in Rust using structural induction. Practically, this means that instead of having a derive macro for each behavior, a single derive can be used to enable any number of behaviors. It doesn't do this using runtime reflection, but rather type-level programming - so there is monomorphization across the substructures, and (at least in theory) no greater overhead than with macro expansion. While there are a lot of things missing still and the…
Inception is a Rust library that automatically implements traits across data structures using type-level programming and structural induction. Rather than requiring separate derive macros for each trait, developers can… 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.
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2020 · paytonturnage.gitbook.io · its alternatives →
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Common data structures and algorithms in Rust. Contribute to EbTech/rust-algorithms development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We all know Rust's trait system is Turing complete, so tell me, why aren't we exploiting this??? - cofibrant/trait-eval
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An implementation of a dynamic programming language in Rust. Includes: Parser/Compiler, REPL, Virtual Machine, Bytecode Disassembler This started out as a learning project to teach myself Rust. It has grown into a decently substantial piece of software and I've learned quite a bit in the process! Some neat things: + A garbage collector that can store dynamically sized types without any double-indirection (i.e. I have my own Box implementation with manual alloc/dealloc) + The smart pointer used to reference GCed data is a thin pointer. The ptr metadata needed for DSTs is stored in…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, In the past few years I've become more interested in machine learning. Since I'm sure the same is true for many here, I wanted to share this project I've been working on: glowstick uses type-directed metaprogramming to keep track of tensor shapes in Rust's type system and determine which operations are permitted or not at compile time. I find Rust has a lot of strengths when it comes to ML applications, but waiting until runtime to find shape related issues feels a bit strange since normally I don't run the code all that often while developing. Given Rust has fancy types available, I…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We wrote our inference engine on Rust, it is faster than llama cpp in all of the use cases. Your feedback is very welcomed. Written from scratch with idea that you can add support of any kernel and platform.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Actor runtime and distributed systems framework for Rust - LeonHartley/Coerce-rs
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · jamesmunns.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to connorwstein/exchange development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Traits for Python3. Contribute to xrudelis/pytrait development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight engine for durable execution / deterministic workflows I built with Rust, wasmtime and the WASM Component Model. Its main use is running reliable, long-running workflows that can automatically resume after failures. Looking for feedback on the approach and potential use cases!
2025 · obeli.sk · its alternatives →
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TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989. Contribute to wojtczyk/trust development by creating an account on GitHub.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Layout is a rust library and a tool that renders Graphviz dot files. - nadavrot/layout
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Alternative to magic.h and infer. Zero dependencies. Fully extensible. Works in no_std, async, and embedded contexts.
2025 · crates.io · its alternatives →
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This is a hobby project of mine that I started a few years ago to learn about programming language implementation. It was created 95% without AI, although a few recent commits include code from Gemini CLI. I started out following Crafting Interpreters, but gradually branched off that until I had almost nothing left in common. Tech stack: Rust, Cranelift (JIT compilation), LALRPOP (parser). Original title: "A small programming language where everything is a value" (edited based on comments)
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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2025 · mackow.ski · its alternatives →
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rust macro util for batching expensive operations. Contribute to hackermondev/batched development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SIMD noise library for Rust. Contribute to verpeteren/rust-simd-noise development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Basically wrap your data struct in Option>> Better yet, use your custom type that provides few helper functions that make using it as nice as old C++ pointers. Obviously there's no pointer arithmetic, but it works great for dynamically allocated structures like trees or linked lists. Please comment how it's a horrible idea that will bring doom to me and my family. fn main() { struct Data { pub number: i32 } // struct Data { int number; }; let mut p:Pointer = Pointer(None); // Data *p = NULL; println!("{}", p.is_none()); // printf(p == NULL ? "true\n" :…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hey! This is something i have been working on. A tiny neural networking lib to learn how something like pytorch works, and to improve my own coding standards.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Machine Learning library for Rust. Contribute to AtheMathmo/rusty-machine development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I’m sure many of you are familiar, but there’s a treacherous gap between finding (or building) a model that works in PyTorch, and getting that deployed into your application, especially in consumer-facing applications. I’ve been very interested in solving this problem with a great developer experience. Over time, I gradually realized that the highest-impact thing to have was a way to go from existing Python code to a self-contained native binary—in other words, a Python compiler. I was already pretty familiar with a successful attempt: when Apple introduced armv8 on the iPhone 5s, they…
2025 · blog.fxn.ai · its alternatives →
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Actor runtime and distributed systems framework for Rust - LeonHartley/Coerce-rs
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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