Useful Crates - Learning the Rust Ecosystem

Matt Davies walks us through some top crates in the Rust Ecosystem, hosted on crates.io. He gives us a whistle stop tour of: - 1. log - lightweight logging facade to provide a consistent API for different logging implementations - 2. env_logger - A simple logging crate, implementing the facade provided by the log crate, which can be configured via environment variables - 3. chrono - for all your time keeping needs - 4. uuid - generates and parses UUIDs (standard 128 bit universally unique identifiers) - 5. rand - for all your random needs - 6. bitflags - typesafe bitmask flag generator useful for sets of C-style bitmask flags - 7. tinyvec - provides useful speedy and sometimes stack allocated vec like data structures - 8. dirs - for all your cross platform directory needs - 9. itertools - all the extra iterator bells and whistles you could need - 10. anyhow - allows you to easily propagate any error that implements the `std::error::Error` trait - 11. tap - provides extensions to allow you to conveniently insert debugging or modification points into an expression without changing the surrounding code (tapping the expression, like you would tap a phone) - 12. rayon - for work stealing data-parallelism - 13. colored - adding pretty colors to your terminal Presenter(s): Matt Davies Meetup info: This was a recording of a virtual meetup. For information about future events join our meetup group: https://www.meetup.com/rust-and-c-plus-plus-in-cardiff/ You can also find us on discord, drop us a message to be sent the link. Big thank you to Esri for sponsoring our meetup page