COOLJAPAN Rust Ecosystem — Sovereign software infrastructure built in Rust.
Run the same software, with the same commands, across Linux, macOS, Windows, containers, and WebAssembly — without being locked into a specific OS, cloud, or vendor. We are rebuilding the entire scientific, media, AI, semantic web, formal verification, and systems stack in pure Rust — so AI agents and critical software can run anywhere with full sovereignty.
Sovereignty by design.
We build a comprehensive Rust-native software ecosystem designed to keep computation, data, and execution under the user's control.
The goal is not merely portability. It is sovereignty: the ability to run, inspect, modify, reproduce, and deploy software across environments without surrendering control to a particular platform, cloud, or vendor.
Same software. Same commands. Your infrastructure. Your control.
📖 Read the full story: Why We Rebuilt 40 Million Lines of the AI & Scientific Stack in 100% Pure Rust
Most of this ecosystem is Apache-2.0 and free. Seven vertical workspaces are licensed, priced in public, with paid 30-day full-source evaluation, credited in full against a licence, and no sales call required.
| Product | Domain | Price | |
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| OxiAutoRS | AUTOSAR Classic + Adaptive | from $40k/yr | → |
| OxiMed | DICOM · FHIR · IEC 62304 evidence | from $48k/yr | → |
| OxiCAD | B-Rep geometry kernel | from $60k/yr | → |
| OxiAero | DO-178C evidence tooling | on request | → |
| OxiEDA | RTL to GDSII | on request | → |
| Oxi3D | Spatial · tessellation · point cloud | on request | → |
| OxiCAR | Autonomous driving simulation | on request | → |
Each page states its own gaps by file. Start with the source, not a meeting.
- Total crates: 1100+ (and growing daily)
- Total Rust SLoC: ~40 million (Mostly the same as Linux Kernel) (OSS: 30M + Licensed: 10M SLoC)
- Total Rust Files: 100,000+
- Passing tests: 400,000+
- Projects: 75+ production-grade libraries
- All projects: 100%
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One of the largest pure-Rust sovereignty stacks in history.
| Category | Project | Description | Link |
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| Scientific Computing | SciRS2 | Complete NumPy/SciPy/scikit-learn replacement (~3M SLoC) | → |
| Scientific Computing | OxiPhysics | Unified physics engine - Bullet/OpenFOAM/LAMMPS/CalculiX replacement | → |
| LLM | OxiBonsai | Pure Rust 1-Bit (Sub-2-Bit) LLM Inference Engine + IMAGEN for PrismML Bonsai Models | → |
| LLM | OxiLLaMa | Pure Rust LLM inference engine — the sovereign alternative to llama.cpp | → |
| GPU (CUDA) | OxiCUDA | NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit software stack with type-safe, memory-safe Rust code | → |
| Media & Computer Vision | OxiMedia | FFmpeg + OpenCV replacement (108 crates) (~3M SLoC) | → |
| Geospatial | OxiGeo | Pure Rust geospatial data processing engine — cloud-native, full CRS & format support | → |
| GIS | OxiGIS | Pure Rust (100%) Implementation of Full-Stack GIS Interface — a desktop and browser GIS application with zero C/C++/Python FFI - DEMO | → |
| Deep Learning | ToRSh | PyTorch-compatible framework with native sharding | → |
| Semantic Web & AI Reasoning | OxiRS | Rust-native platform for Semantic Web, SPARQL 1.2, GraphQL, Digital Twin (Apache Jena replacement) - DEMO1 | → |
| Scientific Computing | QuantRS2 | Full Quantum Computing Framework (QuantRS2) | → |
| Digital Humans | OxiHuman | Privacy-first parametric human body generator (WASM/WebGPU) - DEMO | → |
| Digital Humans | OxiGAF | Gaussian avatar reconstruction from monocular video (Sponsor Only) | → |
| Formal Verification | OxiLean | Memory-safe Interactive Theorem Prover (Lean 4 inspired) | → |
| Formal Verification | OxiZ | High-performance SMT solver (Z3 replacement) - DEMO | → |
| Pure Rust Demo (EML) | Phop | Differentiable symbolic-discovery engine written entirely in pure Rust (Sponsor Only) | → |
| Legal Technology | Legalis-RS (legalis) | Legal statute parser, analyzer & simulator (Legal DX) | → |
| Government Technology (GovTech) | OxigenAI | OxigenAI rebuilds the (Japan) Digital Agency's government AI legal system "GenAI", powered by Legalis-RS and OxiZ | → |
| XML | OxiXML | Pure Rust libraries of XSLT 3.0 / XQuery / XSD 1.1 / RELAX NG / Schematron / XMLDSig / XSL-FO / RDF 1.2 / Turtle / RDF-XML / JSON-LD / RDFa / SVG / canonicalization / SPARQL | → |
| Ephemeris | OxiEphemeris | A pure-Rust, clean-room astronomical ephemeris engine (esp. for Astrology) (Sponsor Only) | → |
| Robot OS | AstRS | Pure Rust dataflow middleware for the robotic age (Pure Rust alternative to ROS2) (Sponsor Only) | → |
| Real-time Signal Processing | Kizzasi | Rust-native AGSP for continuous audio, sensor, robotics & video streams | → |
| Compression & Archive | OxiArc | Pure Rust compression & archive stack — zero-C/FFI replacement for zlib / zstd / brotli / xz / libarchive (DEFLATE, Zstd, Brotli, LZMA, LZH, ZIP, TAR) — Live Demo | → |
| ... | 50+ more projects | Full ecosystem overview at cooljapan.tech | — |
Full project list → Ecosystem Overview
Latest updates → Tech Blog
Independent write-ups about the COOLJAPAN Pure Rust ecosystem, updated monthly.
Curated by KitaSan — the first individual sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation and the founder of the Apache Newsletter (2003).
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2026-05 — 1-Bit LLMs in Pure Rust — A field report from OxiBonsai v0.1.3 · Naz Quadri A hands-on field report: measured decode and prefill throughput across the CPU AVX-2 and CUDA backends on real hardware, read through the SIMD kernels and error model, and documented three defects. Assesses the source as senior-level human Rust, and notes that release count rather than commit count is the meaningful activity signal for this codebase.
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2026-08 — Local Inference Engine: OxiBonsai · 4D Developer Community Introduces OxiBonsai as a pure Rust inference engine for PrismML's sub-2-bit Bonsai models, noting its OpenAI-compatible server API as a drop-in replacement for existing workflows, and its zero C/FFI construction on the COOLJAPAN ecosystem.
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2026-10 — The Rust Revolution Missed a Spot: Unveiling OxiRS for Next-Gen Knowledge Systems · Monika Singhal Explores how the Rust ecosystem previously lacked a native semantic web stack and introduces OxiRS as a memory-safe, zero-C/JVM replacement for legacy platforms like Apache Jena—powering next-generation knowledge graphs, SPARQL 1.2, and AI reasoning.
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2026-11 — The Pure Rust GIS Revolution: Unraveling Its True Lineage and Unmatched Power · Monika Singhal Traces the architectural lineage of the COOLJAPAN geospatial stack (OxiGDAL and OxiGIS), illustrating how a 100% Pure Rust implementation eliminates legacy C/C++ GIS dependencies while unlocking native browser-based WASM analytics and memory-safe spatial processing.
📚 Full archive → cooljapan.tech/articles
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- Tech Blog (official): blog.cooljapan.tech
- Medium (release announcements & Philosophy): kitasanio.medium.com
- Play Ground: play.cooljapan.dev
- LinkedIn: KitaSan -- LinkedIn Member since Feb. 29th, 2004
- Main Website: cooljapan.tech
- Follow the blog for daily release updates
The Rust sovereignty stack is here.
No more C dependencies (in default). No more Python for science. No more cloud lock-in.
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