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There are over 100K #RustLang packages!

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State of the Rust/Cargo crates ecosystem

How many packages there are? How many dependencies they have? Which crate is the oldest or biggest? Is Rust usage growing?
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grin
grin  
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yes but that's also horrible. I mean, there are probably a dozen crates all claiming to do FOO... Half of them was updated before the maya empire ruled.
Kornel
Kornel  
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@grin There are also lots of pages on the Web about the same thing, and most of them are bad. This doesn't mean we should stop people from writing more web pages.

https://lib.rs exists specifically to pick the best crates out of the 100K.

Lib.rs — home for Rust crates

List of Rust libraries and applications. An unofficial experimental opinionated alternative to crates.io
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@grin
grin
grin  
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I am not sure how one is supposed to pick. Like when I was looking for a simple 2D library to paint pixels, had to actually try 3 crates because the "documentation" didn't quite convey the purpose and means of the crates.
Maybe there should be a tutorial about how to read the documentation "right"? Most of those I've checked were borderline incomprehensible. 🤷‍♂️
grin
grin  
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I don't see the logic behind lib.rs ordering.
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