Alternatives to rustup
The official installer and toolchain manager for the Rust programming language. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
rustup
The official installer and toolchain manager for the Rust programming language.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as rustup.
mise
Keep project tools, environment variables and tasks in one configuration.
mise manages tool versions, environment variables and project tasks from one configuration across many languages. It is a general tool rather than the official Rust-only installer and toolchain manager.
asdf
One version manager for many language runtimes.
asdf handles many language runtimes through plugins and one .tool-versions file. It runs on macOS and Linux only, uses shims that add latency, and its plugin quality varies.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Rust
A compiled systems programming language with no garbage collector, installed through the rustup toolchain manager.
Cargo
Rust's build system and package manager.
RustRover
A JetBrains IDE for Rust with code analysis, refactoring, debugging, testing and Cargo integration.
GHCup
The main installer for the Haskell toolchain, managing GHC, Cabal, Stack and the Haskell Language Server.
SDKMAN!
Manages parallel versions of JVM SDKs and build tools.
pyenv
Builds and switches between multiple Python versions.
