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This is my project (although I didn't submit this to HN), AMA

I consider quite incomplete at this point (but hopefully already useful). There are several categories of crate that just aren't covered yet (suggestions very welcome, either here or on the github repo https://github.com/nicoburns/blessed-rs).

I'd also like to add more hand curated content such as:

- Installation and developer environment setup - Link to learning resources (books, projects, etc) - Explanations of the community (reddit, TWIR, discourse, github, zulip, etc) - Themed guides (backend web development, CLI tools, game development, etc)

I want to put together more guidance on how to contribute, and gradually transition this into more of a community maintained model over time, but I haven't had a chance to do this yet.

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Thanks for compiling this! One small nitpick: "De facto random number generation library" doesn't mean what you probably want to say, it should be "De facto standard [...] library". Otherwise the "de facto" applies to "library", and that doesn't really make sense (at least not in Rust, where it's very well defined what can be called a library and what not)...

Yeah, I guess you're right. I've updated this.

Just a small suggestion might be the category templating engines (incomplete list, based on my experience):

- askama

- tera

- liquid

And more importantly logging, due to this being a common usecase:

- log

- ... and companions

- (maybe even advanced things, like opentelemetry)

OTOH, this is supposed to be a list of "de facto standard" libraries. If there are several alternatives with no clear "winner", that may not be a good fit for this list?

Ramhorns is a great templating engine. Faster than askama, although parsing the templates on runtime. https://docs.rs/ramhorns

Thanks for putting this together.

Some other ideas:

* Config: dotenvy

* Database: sqlx (async), diesel (sync, ORM)

* gRPC: prost (protobuf library)

Another for config: https://crates.io/crates/config

+1 for sqlx. Native SQL queries that are typechecked at compile time.

sqlx is awesome but I'd add the small caveat that it has an annoying sharp edge with sqlite where it relies on sqlite's loose typing, but if you want to use the recent strict feature[1] (which enforces type & check constraints), you need to use the specific underlying types (eg, you need to specify INTEGER, not DATETIME). In which case, I'd recommend the excellent rusqlite. You'll also be able to use all sorts of advanced sqlite features that way, like writing functions in Rust that you can call from your queries[2].

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html

[2] https://docs.rs/rusqlite/latest/rusqlite/functions/index.htm...

Thank you, this will help me a lot. I'm playing around a bit with Rust and knowing which libraries are popular and therefore somewhat trustworthy and dependable is really important. Your list is a nice collection and lists many of the things I've come across and played with, but there are some new ones which I didn't know existed and which I know will come in handy at some point.

I think [slotmap](https://docs.rs/slotmap/latest/slotmap/) could be on there somewhere, I have found it very useful for various projects. I guess it could be listed under datastructures?

I’ve been interested in dabbling with Rust for some time but haven’t really had an idea of where to start or what to use if I do - this is super helpful in a way that the Awesome ** pages just aren’t bc of the info it gives on each library. Nice initiative - thanks for putting it together.

Is there a standard Arena library?

There is `slab` (each instance can only store a single type), and `bumpalo` (which allows a mix a types in the same memory chunk).

There is also `slotmap` which isn't really an arena, but can be used for some of the same use cases.

I think typed-arena fills this role.

As someone who is just starting to learn Rust, thanks so much for building this.

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