ruffle-rs/ruffle

A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

Games & graphicsRust#swf#flash#rust#emulator#reimplementation

1.4 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

An Adobe Flash Player emulator written in Rust that supports ActionScript 1, 2 and 3 and runs on desktop and in the browser via WebAssembly. It lets you play legacy SWF content after Flash was discontinued.

Useful for

Open an old SWF file in the browser via the Ruffle web demo
Install the Ruffle desktop app to run Flash games locally
Run a collection of SWFs through the scanner to check parser compatibility

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

Why it’s trending

4 stars so far today, about 5 expected by the end of the day.

Stars per day

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

Numbers

Total stars: 18,547
Stars in a day: 5
Forks: 1,099
Issues and pull requests: 23,898
Watchers: 167
Language: Rust
Latest release: nightly-2026-09-18 · September 18, 2026
Created: April 25, 2019
Last push: September 18, 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 15, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #23, +7 stars
September 14, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #22, +5 stars

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