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
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    7 months 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