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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/1825728

Lots of new features!

Thought I should share this with those who don't use users.rust-lang.org. Note: I'm not affiliated with lib.rs, I'm only reposting to lemmy.

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[–] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 4 points 2 years ago

Its too bad they closed sourced the site. I really like the way it makes exploring crates easy, but after major devs having their crates removed Im very hesistant to use it.

[–] hallettj@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Neat! And for anyone not familiar Lib.rs is ~~a package repository, described as~~ an alternative [frontend] to Crates.io.

[–] Vorpal@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Not really: lib.rs is a different website frontend to the same old crates.io, presenting the data in a better way.

[–] Anders429@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Hey, maybe this will actually lead to standardization of feature documentation? It's been in terrible shape for years. The fact that optional dependencies and features have been treated nearly the same by cargo, but treated differently by crates.io, makes it useless for discovering features for crates. Up until now, my go-to method is to examine the Cargo.toml file directly, and if I can't figure out what a feature does there I look directly at the source code.