rustviz/rustviz

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2849 stars · 75 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

RustViz generates interactive timeline visualizations of ownership and borrowing events for short Rust programs, integrating directly with rustc via a nightly plugin that walks HIR/MIR. It is primarily a teaching aid for explaining Rust's ownership model, available as a CLI, mdbook preprocessor, library, and web playground.

Use cases

• visualize ownership and borrowing events in a Rust snippet
• teach students how the Rust borrow checker works
• generate interactive timelines for Rust code examples in course materials
• embed ownership diagrams into mdbook documentation
• see when variables become owners and when references go out of scope

When to choose

• you are teaching or learning Rust ownership and borrowing concepts
• you want diagrams that reflect the real borrow checker's view rather than hand annotations
• you need to embed interactive visualizations into Rust educational material

When to avoid

• you need visualizations for large production Rust codebases
• you cannot use a specific nightly Rust toolchain
• you need a general-purpose Rust debugger or profiler

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

compiler developer-tools data-visualization education programming-languages developer-tools tutorials windows rust rust-ownership borrow-checker teaching-aid interactive-visualization rustc-plugin mdbook-preprocessor education linux macos web

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