nix-rust/nix
Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
70/100
- Activity 83
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4409
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 106
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3069 stars · 769 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A Rust crate providing safe, friendly bindings to Unix-like platform APIs (Linux, macOS, BSD, etc.), wrapping unsafe libc calls in typed, Result-based abstractions. It is one of the most widely downloaded Rust libraries for system-level programming.
Use cases
- call unix system calls from rust safely
- get hostname or process info in rust
- avoid unsafe libc code in rust
- write cross-platform unix tooling in rust
- manage file descriptors, signals, or processes in rust
When to choose
- you need safe, idiomatic Rust wrappers around POSIX/*nix syscalls
- you want errno handling handled for you via Result types
- you target Linux, macOS, or BSD from Rust
When to avoid
- you need Windows-only APIs
- you want a fully unified cross-platform OS abstraction layer
- you need raw unsafe libc access with exact C semantics
Facets
library · maturity active
developer-tools concurrency file-system networking developer-tools operating-systems cross-platform rust bsd cross-platform libc unix system-programming safe-bindings syscall linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/nix-rust/nix · fetched 2026-08-28 · 312cec645ea3
- registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/nix · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9a956e3490ed
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| nix-rust/nix | main | 70 |
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