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24 alternatives to Octopii, a runtime for writing distributed applications in Rust

🦑 Distributed Systems Kernel written in rust. Contribute to octopii-rs/octopii development by creating an account on GitHub.

Octopii is a runtime designed for building distributed applications using Rust. It provides developers with tools and infrastructure needed to write, deploy, and manage code across multiple machines or systems. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    it won't let me put url for some reason, here it is: https://github.com/octopii-rs/octopii

    Nov 2025 · 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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    Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed. Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular…

    2023 · ambient.run · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I went to an ATProto meetup last week, and as a burnt-out semi-academic who hates academic publishing, I thought there might be a cool opportunity to build on Octopus (https://www.octopus.ac/), so I got a bit excited over the weekend and built Octosphere. Hopefully some of you find it interesting! Blog post here: https://andreasthinks.me/posts/octosphere/octosphere.html

    Feb 2026 · octosphere.social · its alternatives →

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    Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly - lunatic-solutions/lunatic

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I made a game (https://polyfight.io/) which revolves around a player (a tank) leveling up and upgrading by killing shapes and other tanks (partially inspired by https://diep.io). It has a bunch of features, a vast number of tanks, an inbuilt chatting system, clans to make teams with your friends, a colour scheme maker, controllable sandboxes which can be public or private, a last man standing gamemode, and an inbuilt 1v1 system with its own ELO rankings and a global leaderboard. The game has a few players right now, and I'd hope to spread the joy players have with…

    2024 · polyfight.io · its alternatives →

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    I think that asdf (https://asdf-vm.com) was a great idea for a project. It helps consolidate installing and running different programming languages into a similar UX. It also is built with a plugin interface that makes it easy to build support for new languages. However it is so slow. I was just testing `node -v` and it was taking ~900ms. That kind of overhead is completely unusable. My shell prompt uses runtimes inside of it for various things so this effectively makes every command take multiple seconds to complete. So I rebuilt it in Rust but using the same plugin ecosystem so…

    2023 · 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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    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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    Godot-based Rust multi-PTY emulator desktop application - godot-pty/gpty

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Introducing Sphere - A lightweight, sandboxed compute runtime written in Rust. - introducing-sphere.md

    2025 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Octri.dev▲136

    Octri provides API teams a single platform to publish docs, generate SDKs, add MCP access, and monitor APIs in production. API Studio includes editable API docs with Ask the Docs, agent-readable docs, custom guides, code examples, and an API playground. SDK Studio generates clien

    Sep 2026 · octri.dev · 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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    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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    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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    "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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    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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    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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    Contribute to orch8-io/engine development by creating an account on GitHub.

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Features from the rust language in javascript: Provides Traits/Type classes & a hashing infrastructure and an advanced library for working with sequences/iterators in js - adobe/ferrum

    2019 · github.com · 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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    Workflow orchestrator written in rust. Contribute to RainingComputers/Flowmium development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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