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Personally I would like a standard http library that has async and non async methods. One of the things that initially turned me away from Rust was the complexi

Personally I would like a standard http library that has async and non async methods. One of the things that initially turned me away from Rust was the complexity of finding a library to use for simple http requests. I know this is also a strength, but it makes the intro days incredibly challenging

staticassertion 5y ago
I wonder if that's a discovery issue. Having used rust for years the quick answer would be 'reqwest', but I guess there's not really any way someone would know that just jumping into the language.
- wongarsu 5y ago
  Crates.io is great, but it certainly has a discoverability issue. Even knowing about reqwest it's far from trivial to conjure up a search that yields reqwest on the first result page. And I'm sorely missing features like "crates that use this also use" and "instead of this crate, others use". If I had infinite time on my hands it would be a fun exercise to try to improve on it.
  - tempest_ 5y ago
    I disagree that is hard to find this. Searching "Http request in rust" for me yields the the rust cookbook on the first result, which is using reqwest! (https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/web/clients/requests.html https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/web/client...) Regardless I agree that crates.io could have some more features but I am not sure how useful I would find a recommendation engine.
    - staticassertion 5y ago
      Right, but isn't it a bit of a shame that I search "http" in crates.io, the site that theoretically should be serving the "find a crate" use case, and I don't get suggestions that are useful?
  - dureuill 5y ago
    there is lib.rs that I find much more efficient to discover crates. Requests is currently #6 in its Web programming > HTTP client category[0]. The download counts, number of contributors, version history, and dependent crates is also prominently displayed. [0]: https://lib.rs/web-programming/http-client https://lib.rs/web-programming/http-client

staticassertion 5y ago

I wonder if that's a discovery issue. Having used rust for years the quick answer would be 'reqwest', but I guess there's not really any way someone would know that just jumping into the language.

wongarsu 5y ago
Crates.io is great, but it certainly has a discoverability issue. Even knowing about reqwest it's far from trivial to conjure up a search that yields reqwest on the first result page. And I'm sorely missing features like "crates that use this also use" and "instead of this crate, others use". If I had infinite time on my hands it would be a fun exercise to try to improve on it.
- tempest_ 5y ago
  I disagree that is hard to find this. Searching "Http request in rust" for me yields the the rust cookbook on the first result, which is using reqwest! (https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/web/clients/requests.html https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/web/client...) Regardless I agree that crates.io could have some more features but I am not sure how useful I would find a recommendation engine.
  - staticassertion 5y ago
    Right, but isn't it a bit of a shame that I search "http" in crates.io, the site that theoretically should be serving the "find a crate" use case, and I don't get suggestions that are useful?
- dureuill 5y ago
  there is lib.rs that I find much more efficient to discover crates. Requests is currently #6 in its Web programming > HTTP client category[0]. The download counts, number of contributors, version history, and dependent crates is also prominently displayed. [0]: https://lib.rs/web-programming/http-client https://lib.rs/web-programming/http-client