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That sounds like something that could be solved by having crates.io provide a curated list of common popular crates for certain features. That is, this seems to

That sounds like something that could be solved by having crates.io provide a curated list of common popular crates for certain features. That is, this seems to be mostly a documentation issue.

kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s really a reputation bootstrapping problem, for which popularity can be a useful proxy. For me to use third-party code, I have to trust that the future behavior of the developers will be reasonable: I want my side projects that don’t get touched for months or years to still mostly work when I get back around to them. Not everyone or every project will have the same desires, though. Sometimes, a fast-moving experimental library is the right choice. The trouble is figuring out which I’m looking at.
- xenocratus 7y ago
  I'm not sure I follow these concerns about "working in the future" - as long as you specify versions that work for you in your Cargo.toml file, that should work at any point in the future given that you use Rust 1.x. If you'll want to update to always be on the latest version of each crate, well that discomfort about them potentially not working is part of the price.
  - kd5bjo 7y ago
    If I come back to something, it’s because I want to resume active development. Keeping a dependency pinned at an old version makes that more difficult in various ways, so I personally value forward compatibility. Not everyone does, and that’s fine. I just want to know what a library developer’s stance on it is before I try to use their library.
roblabla 7y ago
This was attempted by the Libz Blitz back in 2017. See the rust-cookbook: https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/ https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/ . I agree that this should be better documented and probably more integrated with crates.io somehow.
p0nies 7y ago
Anyone can search for "awesome [lang]" when they want such a thing.

That sounds like something that could be solved by having crates.io provide a curated list of common popular crates for certain features. That is, this seems to be mostly a documentation issue.

kd5bjo 7y ago

It’s really a reputation bootstrapping problem, for which popularity can be a useful proxy. For me to use third-party code, I have to trust that the future behavior of the developers will be reasonable: I want my side projects that don’t get touched for months or years to still mostly work when I get back around to them. Not everyone or every project will have the same desires, though. Sometimes, a fast-moving experimental library is the right choice. The trouble is figuring out which I’m looking at.

xenocratus 7y ago
I'm not sure I follow these concerns about "working in the future" - as long as you specify versions that work for you in your Cargo.toml file, that should work at any point in the future given that you use Rust 1.x. If you'll want to update to always be on the latest version of each crate, well that discomfort about them potentially not working is part of the price.
- kd5bjo 7y ago
  If I come back to something, it’s because I want to resume active development. Keeping a dependency pinned at an old version makes that more difficult in various ways, so I personally value forward compatibility. Not everyone does, and that’s fine. I just want to know what a library developer’s stance on it is before I try to use their library.

roblabla 7y ago

This was attempted by the Libz Blitz back in 2017. See the rust-cookbook: https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/ https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/ . I agree that this should be better documented and probably more integrated with crates.io somehow.

p0nies 7y ago

Anyone can search for "awesome [lang]" when they want such a thing.