Bytecodealliance Rustix by bytecodealliance
Safe Rust bindings to POSIX-ish APIs
About Bytecodealliance Rustix
From the project's README at github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
provides efficient memory-safe and [I/O-safe] wrappers to POSIX-like, Unix-like, Linux, and Winsock syscall-like APIs, with configurable backends. It uses Rust references, slices, and return values instead of raw pointers, and [I/O safety types] instead of raw file descriptors, providing memory safety, [I/O safety], and [provenance]. It uses s for reporting errors, [] instead of bare integer flags, an [] trait with optimizations to efficiently accept any Rust string type, and several other efficient conveniences.
is low-level and, and while the API supports [Windows Sockets
Health score breakdown
6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.
Adoption signals
Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.
| Signal | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 2.0k | github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix |
| GitHub forks | 262 | github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix |
| CRATES downloads (last month) | 178452k | rustix |
Release & maintenance
Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.
| Project age | 5.6 years | since Sep 2020 |
| Last commit | 19 days ago | Apr 18, 2026 |
| Releases shipped | 7 | last: 1.2 years ago |
| Security policy | SECURITY.md | declared by maintainers |
Self-hosting cost across providers
Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.
| Provider | Plan | Specs | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hetzner | CAX11 | 2c · 4GB · 40GB | $4.13 USD | Deploy → |
| vultr | VC2 | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5 USD | Deploy → |
| linode | Nanode 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5.12 USD | Deploy → |
| digitalocean | Basic Regular 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $6 USD | Deploy → |
Security advisories
CVE-2024-43806. What people say on Hacker News
Ready to self-host Bytecodealliance Rustix?
Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.
Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.
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