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What things would you like to see included that aren’t currently in the standard library?

• 41b696ef1113 4y ago
  Fair question. Noting that I am a Python person who has only tooled around with Rust a bit, a few packages I think warrant inclusion because the base options are too anemic: - Command line parsing (more feature rich the manually iterating over args) - (De)Compression: tar, zip, gzip, bzip2 - CSV parser - Date time - Hashing: md5, sha1, sha256 - HTTP requests - Logging - Random generation: ints, floats, sampling, uuids - Regex - SQLite bindings - (De)serialization: json, ini, toml, yaml - System niceties: where is user home?, # of cpus? Appreciating some of these are quite complex, and probably best left to a crate that has more leeway in experimentation/breaking APIs. Edit: tried to make the formatting less bad
  • waaveshine 4y ago
    Maybe some of these can be chalked up to language philosophy or APIs as you said, but many of these would be welcome additions in my eyes. I think regex, time, and crates like num_cpus would especially be nice to have. There's plenty of those types of crates where it feels like you can't compile a single project without seeing it float by as you build the dependencies.
    • shepmaster 4y ago
      > and crates like num_cpus https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.available_parallelism.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.available_parallelis... — Rust 1.59