bootandy/dust

A more intuitive version of du in rust

Developer toolsRust

2.7 Breakout Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 25, 2026, 13:57 UTC.

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About the project

A Rust CLI that shows which directories and files use disk space as colored bars instead of du output, automatically sorting and limiting to the largest entries.

Useful for

Find which folders eat disk space without sorting du output
Limit output to the ten largest directories with dust -n 10
Find the largest files with dust -F

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

10 stars so far today, about 20 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 4 per day, so that's 4.8× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 7.4× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending Rust today: #12, +41 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 12,343
Today: 10 · ≈ 20 by evening
Forks: 294
Issues and pull requests: 606
Watchers: 39
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v1.2.6 · September 16, 2026
Created: March 16, 2018
Last push: September 16, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 25, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #12, +41 stars

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