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{
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"slug": "common",
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"name": "Common",
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"description": "Very commonly used crates that everyone should know about",
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"subgroups": [
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{
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"slug": "general",
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"name": "General",
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"description": "General purpose ",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Random numbers",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "rand",
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"notes": "De facto standard random number generation library split out from the standard library"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Time & Date",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "time",
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"notes": "The original datetime crate which was split out of std pre-rust-1.0. Preferrable if covers your needs, but it's quite limited in what it provides."
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}, {
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"name": "chrono",
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"notes": "The most comphrehensive and full-featured datetime library, but more complex because of it."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Serialization (JSON, YAML, etc)",
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"notes": "See <a href=\"https://docs.rs/serde/latest/serde/#data-formats\">here</a> for supported formats.",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "serde",
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"notes": "De facto standard serialization library. Use in conjunction with sub-crates like serde_json for the specific format that you are using."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Regular Expressions",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "regex",
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"notes": "De facto standard regex library. Very fast, but does not support fancier features such as backtracking."
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},
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{
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"name": "fancy_regex",
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"notes": "Use if need features such as backtracking which regex doesn't support"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "UUIDs",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "uuid",
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"notes": "Implements generating and parsing UUIDs and a number of utility functions"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Temporary files",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "tempfile",
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"notes": "Supports both temporary files and temporary directories"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Gzip (de)compression",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "flate2",
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"notes": "Uses a pure-Rust implementation by default. Use feature flags to opt in to system zlib."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Insertion-ordered map",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "indexmap",
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"notes": "A HashMap that seperately keeps track of insertion order and allows you to efficiently iterate over its elements in that order"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Stack-allocated arrays",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "arrayvec",
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"notes": "Arrays that are ONLY stack-allocated with fixed capacity"
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}, {
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"name": "smallvec",
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"notes": "Arrays that are stack-allocated with fallback to the heap if the fixed stack capacity is exceeded"
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}, {
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"name": "tinyvec",
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"notes": "Stack allocated arrays in 100% safe Rust code but requires items to implement the Default trait."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "HTTP Requests",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "reqwest",
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"notes": "Full-fat HTTP client. Can be used in both synchronous and asynchronous code. Requires tokio runtime."
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}, {
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"name": "ureq",
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"notes": "Minimal synchronous HTTP client focussed on simplicity and minimising dependencies."
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}]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "error-handling",
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"name": "Error Handling",
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"description": "Crates for more easily handling errors",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "For applications",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "anyhow",
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"notes": "Provides a boxed error type that can hold any error, and helpers for generating an application-level stack trace."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "For libraries",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "thiserror",
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"notes": "Helps with generating boilerplate for enum-style error types."
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}]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "logging",
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"name": "Logging",
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"description": "Crates for logging. Note that in general you will need a seperate crate for actually printing/storing the logs",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Text-based logging",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "tracing",
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"notes": "Tracing is now the go-to crate for logging."
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}, {
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"name": "log",
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"notes": "An older and simpler crate if your needs are simple and you are not using any async code."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Structured logging",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "tracing",
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"notes": "Tracing is now the go-to crate for logging."
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}, {
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"name": "slog",
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"notes": "Structured logging"
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}]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "lang-extensions",
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"name": "Language Extensions",
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"description": "General purpose utility crates that extend language and/or stdlib functionality.",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Lazy static variable initialization",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "once_cell",
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"notes": "Newer crate with more ergonomic API. On track to be incorporated into the standard library. Should be preferred for all new projects."
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}, {
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"name": "lazy_static",
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"notes": "Older crate. API is less convenient, but crate is stable and maintained."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Iterator helpers",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "itertools",
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"notes": "A bunch of useful methods on iterators that aren't in the stdlib"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Abstracting over different number types",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "num",
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"notes": "Traits like Number, Add, etc that allow you write functions that are generic over the specific numeric type"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Endian conversion",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "byteorder",
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"notes": "Utility functions to convert between different endianness or read/write data with a specific endianness"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Bitflags",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "bitflags",
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"notes": "Strongly typed bitflag types"
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}]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "system",
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"name": "System",
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"description": "For low-level interaction with the underling platform / operating system",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Memory mapping files",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "memmap2",
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"notes": "The older memmap crate is unmaintained."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Libc",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "libc",
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"notes": "Bindings for directly calling libc functions."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Windows (OS)",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "windows",
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"notes": "The official Microsoft-provided crate for interacting with windows APIs"
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}, {
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"name": "winapi",
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"notes": "Older binding to the windows APIs. Unofficial, but more complete than windows-rs"
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}]
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}
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]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "cryptography",
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"name": "Cryptography",
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"description": "Crates that provide implementations of cryptographic algorithms. This section attempts to list the best crates for the listed algorithms, but does not intend to make recommendations for the algorithms themselves.<br />",
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"subgroups": [],
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Password Hashing",
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"notes": "For more algorithms, see <a href=\"https://github.com/RustCrypto/password-hashes#rustcrypto-password-hashes\">Rust Crypto Password Hashes</a>.",
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"crates": [
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{ "name": "argon2", "notes": "" },
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{ "name": "scrypt", "notes": "" },
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{ "name": "bcrypt", "notes": "" }
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "General Purpose Hashing",
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"notes": "For more algorithms, see <a href=\"https://github.com/RustCrypto/hashes#rustcrypto-hashes\">Rust Crypto Hashes</a>.",
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"crates": [
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{ "name": "sha2", "notes": "" },
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{ "name": "sha1", "notes": "" },
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{ "name": "md-5", "notes": "" }
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "AEAD Encryption",
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"notes": "For more algorithms, see <a href=\"https://github.com/RustCrypto/AEADs#rustcrypto-authenticated-encryption-with-associated-data-aead-algorithms\">Rust Crypto AEADs</a>.",
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"crates": [
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{ "name": "aes-gcm-siv", "notes": "" },
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{ "name": "aes-gcm", "notes": "" },
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{ "name": "chacha20poly1305", "notes": "" }
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "RSA",
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"crates": [
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{ "name": "rsa", "notes": "" }
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "Digital Signatures",
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"notes": "For more algorithms, see <a href=\"https://github.com/RustCrypto/signatures#rustcrypto-signatures--\">Rust Crypto Signatures</a>.",
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"crates": [
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{ "name": "ed25519", "notes": "Use in conjunction with the ed25519-dalek crate." },
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{ "name": "ecdsa", "notes": "" },
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{ "name": "dsa", "notes": "" }
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "Certificate Formats",
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"notes": "For more formats, see <a href=\"https://github.com/RustCrypto/formats#rustcrypto-formats--\">Rust Crypto Formats</a>.",
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"crates": [
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{ "name": "der", "notes": "" },
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{ "name": "pem‑rfc7468 ", "notes": "" },
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{ "name": "pkcs8", "notes": "" },
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{ "name": "x509-cert", "notes": "" }
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]
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},
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{
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"name": "TLS / SSL",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "rustls",
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"notes": "A portable pure-rust high-level implementation of TLS. Implements TLS 1.2 and higher."
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}, {
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"name": "rust-native-tls",
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"notes": "Delegates to the system TLS implementations on windows and macOS, and uses OpenSSL on linux."
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}, {
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"name": "webpki",
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"notes": "X.509 Certificate validation. Builds on top of ring."
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}, {
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"name": "ring",
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"notes": "Fork of BoringSSL. Provides cryptographic primitives for TLS/SSL"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Utilities",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "subtle",
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"notes": "Utilities for writing constant-time algorithms"
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},
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{
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"name": "zeroize",
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"notes": "Securely erase memory"
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}]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "networking",
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"name": "Networking",
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"description": "TCP, HTTP, GRPc, etc. And the executors required to do asynchronous networking.",
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"subgroups": [
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{
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"slug": "async-executors",
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"name": "Async Executors",
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"description": "To do async programming using the async-await in Rust you need a runtime to execute drive your Futures.",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "General purpose",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "tokio",
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"notes": "The oldest async runtime in the Rust ecosystem and still the most widely supported. Recommended for new projects."
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}, {
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"name": "async-std",
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"notes": "A newer option that is very similar to tokio. Its API more closely mirrors the std library, but it doesn't have as much traction as Tokio."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "io_uring",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "glommio",
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"notes": "Use if you need io_uring support. Still somewhat experimental but rapidly maturing."
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}]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "http-foundations",
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"name": "HTTP",
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"description": "HTTP client and server libraries, as well as lower-level building blocks.",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Types & Interfaces",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "http",
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"notes": "The `http` crate doesn't actually contain an HTTP implementation. Just types and interfaces to help interoperability."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Low-level HTTP Implementation",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "hyper",
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"notes": "A low-level HTTP implementation (both client and server). Implements HTTP 1, 2, and 3. Requires the tokio async runtime."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "HTTP Client",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "reqwest",
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"notes": "Full-fat HTTP client. Can be used in both synchronous and asynchronous code. Requires tokio runtime."
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},{
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"name": "surf",
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"notes": "Client that uses the async-std runtime rather than the tokio runtime."
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}, {
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"name": "ureq",
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"notes": "Minimal synchronous HTTP client focussed on simplicity and minimising dependencies."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "HTTP Server",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "axum",
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"notes": "A minimal and ergonomic framework. An official part of the tokio project. Recommend for most new projects."
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}, {
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"name": "tide",
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"notes": "Similar to Axum, but based on async-std rather than tokio"
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}, {
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"name": "actix-web",
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"notes": "A performance focussed framework. All Rust frameworks are fast, but choose actix-web if you need the absolutely maximum performance."
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}, {
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"name": "poem",
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"notes": "Automatically generates OpenAPI defintions."
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}, {
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"name": "warp",
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"notes": "Very similar to axum but with a quirkier API. This is a solid framework, but you should probably prefer Axum unless you particular like the API"
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}, {
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"name": "rocket",
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"notes": "Focussed on ergonomics. This is a solid framework, however development has stalled. Avoid for new projects."
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}]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "websockets",
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"name": "Websockets",
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"description": "This section includes libraries for you to use just websockets. However note that many of the HTTP server frameworks in the section above also support websockets",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Low-level",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "tungstenite-rs",
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"notes": "Low-level crate that others build on"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "General Purpose",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "tokio-tungstenite",
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"notes": "If you are using the tokio executor"
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}, {
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"name": "async-tungstenite",
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"notes": "If you are using the async-std executor"
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}]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "grpc",
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"name": "gRPC",
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"description": "",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "General Purpose",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "tonic",
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"notes": "gRPC over HTTP/2 with full support for asynchronous code. Works with tokio"
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}]
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}
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]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "cli-tools",
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"name": "CLIs",
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"description": "",
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"subgroups": [
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{
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"slug": "argument-parsing",
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"name": "Argument Parsing",
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"description": "See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://github.com/rust-cli/argparse-benchmarks-rs\">argparse-benchmarks-rs</a> for a full comparison of the crates mentioned here and more.",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Fully-featured",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "clap",
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"notes": "Ergonomic, supports everything, and is fast at runtime. However compile times can be slow"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Minimal",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "lexopt",
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"notes": "Fast compile times, fast runtime, pedantic about correctness. API is less ergonomic"
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}, {
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"name": "pico-args",
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"notes": "Fast compile times, fast runtime, more lax about correctness. API is more ergonomic"
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}]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "utility",
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"name": "Utility",
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"description": "Helpers that are often useful when implementing CLIs",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Globbing",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "globset",
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"notes": "High-performance globbing that allows multiple globs to be evaluated at once"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Directory walking",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "walkdir",
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"notes": "Basic recursive filesystem walking."
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}, {
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"name": "ignore",
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"notes": "Recursive filesystem walking that respects ignore files (like .gitignore)"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "File watching",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "notify",
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"notes": "Watch files or directories and execute a function when they change"
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}]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "rendering",
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"name": "Terminal Rendering",
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"description": "For fancy terminal rendering and TUIs. The crates recommended here work cross-platform (including windows).",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Coloured Output",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "termcolor",
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"notes": "Cross-platform terminal colour output"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Full TUI library",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "crossterm",
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"notes": "Cross-platform terminal rendering and event handling"
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}]
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}
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]
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"slug": "concurrency",
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"name": "Concurrency",
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"description": "",
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"subgroups": [
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{
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"slug": "data-structures",
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"name": "Data Structures",
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"description": "",
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"purposes": [
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{
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"name": "Mutex",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "parking_lot",
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"notes": "std::mutex also works fine. But Parking Lot is faster."
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Atomic pointer swapping",
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"crates": [{
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"name": "arc_swap",
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"notes": "Useful for sharing data that has many readers but few writers"
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}]
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},
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{
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"name": "Concurrent HashMap",
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"notes": "See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://github.com/xacrimon/conc-map-bench\">conc-map-bench</a> for comparative benchmarks of concurrent HashMaps.",
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"crates": [{
|
||
"name": "dashmap",
|
||
"notes": "The fastest for general purpose workloads"
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}, {
|
||
"name": "flurry",
|
||
"notes": "Particularly good for read-heavy workloads."
|
||
}]
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
"name": "Channels",
|
||
"notes": "See <a href=\"https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/sync/mpsc/index.html#communicating-between-sync-and-async-code\">communicating-between-sync-and-async-code</a> for notes on when to use async-specific channels vs general purpose channels.",
|
||
"crates": [
|
||
{
|
||
"name": "crossbeam_channel",
|
||
"notes": "The absolute fastest channel implementation available. Implements Go-like 'select' feature."
|
||
}, {
|
||
"name": "flume",
|
||
"notes": "Smaller and simpler than crossbeam_channel and almost as fast"
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
"name": "postage",
|
||
"notes": "Channels that integrate nicely with async code"
|
||
}]
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
"name": "Parallel computation",
|
||
"crates": [
|
||
{
|
||
"name": "rayon",
|
||
"notes": "Convert sequential computation into parallel computation with one call - `par_iter` instead of `iter`"
|
||
}]
|
||
}
|
||
]
|
||
}
|
||
]
|
||
}
|
||
]
|
||
}
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