I love browsing crates.io and blessed.rs for interesting and useful crates to experiment with. What are your favorite?

I’m especially interested in those simple ones that do one thing and do it will, like uuid, tempfile, and notify.

  • @RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works
    2•1 year ago

    Here is an originally random list (using cargo tree --prefix=depth) with some very loose logical grouping. Wide-scoped and well-known crates removed (some remaining are probably still known by most).

    mime data-encoding percent-encoding textwrap unescape unicode-width scraper
arrayvec bimap bstr enum-iterator os_str_bytes pretty_assertions paste
clap_complete console indicatif shlex
lz4_flex mpeg2ts roxmltree speedy
aes base64 hex cbc sha1 sha2 rsa
reverse_geocoder trust-dns-resolver
signal-hook signal-hook-tokio
blocking
fs2
semver
snmalloc-rs