Source: https://seerepo.com/r/huggingface/candle/built
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/r/huggingface/candle/built.md
Description: candle is a Rust repo built with objc2-foundation and Tokio. It uses AI through candle-nn, candle-onnx, candle-transformers, safetensors, hf-hub, and 1 more.

# What is candle built with?

candle is a Rust repo built with objc2-foundation and Tokio. It uses AI through candle-nn, candle-onnx, candle-transformers, safetensors, hf-hub, and 1 more, makes its content with parquet, image, and zip, and deploys with tracing. It has 232,128 written lines, with 54 test files.

Read on November 5, 2026, at commit cfcbd71.

Repository: https://github.com/huggingface/candle

## Frontend

### Interface

- **objc2-metal**: 21 files

## Backend

### AI

- **candle-nn**
- **candle-onnx**
- **candle-transformers**
- **[safetensors](https://seerepo.com/uses/safetensors)**: 5 files
- **hf-hub**: 4 files
- **[tokenizers](https://seerepo.com/uses/tokenizers)**: 1 file

## Support

### The base

- **[objc2-foundation](https://seerepo.com/uses/objc2-foundation)**: 7 files
- **[Tokio](https://seerepo.com/uses/tokio)**: 1 file

### Content

- **parquet**: 4 files
- **[image](https://seerepo.com/uses/image)**: 3 files
- **[zip](https://seerepo.com/uses/zip)**: 2 files

### Deploy

- **[tracing](https://seerepo.com/uses/tracing)**: 50 files

### Tools

- **clap**: 1 file

### Other

- **getrandom**
- **once_cell**
- **serde**: 74 files
- **half**: 35 files
- **rayon**: 15 files
- **byteorder**: 13 files
- **num-traits**: 13 files
- **objc2**: 10 files
- **thiserror**: 6 files
- **libc**: 4 files
- **pyo3**: 4 files
- **rand**: 4 files
- **serde_json**: 4 files
- **memmap2**: 3 files
- **anyhow**: 2 files
- **fancy-regex**: 2 files
- **parking_lot**: 2 files
- **block2**: 1 file
- **num_cpus**: 1 file
- **prost**: 1 file
- **rand_distr**: 1 file
- **zerocopy**: 1 file

## Other repos with a similar stack

- [aaif-goose/goose](https://seerepo.com/r/aaif-goose/goose/built): Tokio, candle-nn, candle-transformers, hf-hub, tokenizers, image, zip, tracing · [Compare](https://seerepo.com/compare/aaif-goose/goose/vs/huggingface/candle)
- [screenpipe/screenpipe](https://seerepo.com/r/screenpipe/screenpipe/built): objc2-foundation, Tokio, hf-hub, tokenizers, parquet, image, tracing · [Compare](https://seerepo.com/compare/huggingface/candle/vs/screenpipe/screenpipe)
- [warpdotdev/warp](https://seerepo.com/r/warpdotdev/warp/built): objc2-foundation, Tokio, tokenizers, image, zip, tracing · [Compare](https://seerepo.com/compare/huggingface/candle/vs/warpdotdev/warp)
- [meilisearch/meilisearch](https://seerepo.com/r/meilisearch/meilisearch/built): Tokio, candle-nn, safetensors, hf-hub, tokenizers, tracing · [Compare](https://seerepo.com/compare/huggingface/candle/vs/meilisearch/meilisearch)
- [openai/codex](https://seerepo.com/r/openai/codex/built): objc2-foundation, Tokio, image, zip, tracing · [Compare](https://seerepo.com/compare/huggingface/candle/vs/openai/codex)
- [tauri-apps/tauri](https://seerepo.com/r/tauri-apps/tauri/built): objc2-foundation, Tokio, image, zip, tracing · [Compare](https://seerepo.com/compare/huggingface/candle/vs/tauri-apps/tauri)

## Frequently asked questions

### What language is candle written in?

candle is written in Rust, with 232,128 written lines.

### What framework does candle use?

candle is built with objc2-foundation and Tokio.

### Does candle use AI?

Yes. candle uses AI through candle-nn, candle-onnx, candle-transformers, safetensors, hf-hub, and tokenizers.

### Does candle have tests?

Yes. candle has 54 test files.

### Which repos have a stack like candle's?

The ones that share most of its stack: aaif-goose/goose, screenpipe/screenpipe, and warpdotdev/warp.

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.