The Rustmax Radar

This is where we collect crates and tools of interest, but that are not yet part of Rustmax.

Crates

• backtrace-on-stack-overflow. Nice missing feature, but code looks underdeveloped.
• bitvec. Operate directly on bits.
• borsh. Fast and stable binary serialization.
• boringtun. WireGuard.
• cpal. Cross-platform audio I/O.
• console and dialoguer. Pretty terminals.
• criterion. Advanced benchmarking.
• dashmap. Concurrent hash map.
• datatest-stable Data-driven tests.
• dotenv.
• derive-new Derive the new function.
• ena. The union find algorithm.
• encoding, charset, codepage, oem_cp, icu_normalizer, detone. Text encoding.
• enum-iterator. Iterate over variants.
• eyre. Sophisticated error handling.
• fnv or some other non-ahash fast hash
• rustc-hash
• hashbrown. Hash maps with no-std.
• html5ever, scraper, and selectors. HTML parsing and CSS selectors. html5ever is low-level; scraper provides a convenient DOM + selector API.
• home
• include_dir.
• indexmap
• libm. Useful for no-std.
• memmap
• ndarray
• nix
• num.
• num-traits
• ordered-float
• parking_lot Non-poisoning mutexes, etc.
• petgraph
• ratatui. Seriously cool CLIs.
• rangetools
• rodio. Cross-platform audio playback.
• rustls. TLS.
• rustversion
• rust-embed. Embedding of file system resources into binaries, with hot-reloading during development.
• scopeguard. Like defer.
• smallvec. The "small vector" optimization. There may be better / newer options.
• sqlx.
• tar.
• tungstenite. WebSockets.
• stacker. Manually-growable call stacks.
• time. Another time crate.
• tracing.
• tracing-subscriber.
• tracing-tracy.
• unicode-xid.
• xdg

Tools

• cargo-duplicates
• cargo-hack
• cargo-llvm-cov
• cargo-outdated
• flamegraph
  • and inferno
• hyperfine
• rust-analyzer
• wasmtime-cli
• delta. Improved git diff plugin.

Wanted

• SHA3
• gRPC
• wasm crates and tools, wasm-bindgen, stdweb
• threadpool
• zip, gzip
• parser generator (pest?)
• alternative to bitflags
• gui stuff
  • winit, wgpu vs glow, morphorm, css, iced vs egui
• i18n
• QUIC - either quinn or quiche
• HTTP3
• markdown
• csv
• small string, smartstring
• rational numbers
• fixed-point, decimal numbers, rust-decimal

Graveyard

These projects were once useful or notable, but are now deprecated by others.

• lazy_static. Use std::sync::LazyLock.
• static_assertions. Use inline const blocks.
• num_cpus. Use std::thread::available_parallelism.
• once_cell. Use std::sync::OnceLock.
• memoffset. Use std::mem::offset_of!.