Battery Packs: Curated Rust Crates to Simplify Your Development Workflow
Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby
I'm introducing Battery Packs, a new way to share curated sets of Rust crates for common tasks like CLI tools or embedded systems. Instead of spending hours researching alternatives, developers can use these community-driven packs as flexible defaults. Anyone can publish a pack, ensuring recommendations come from experts building similar systems while avoiding lock-in. We even have a prototype tool called cargo-bp ready for you to try.
The best people to recommend what libraries you ought to use are other people building systems like yours.
- rickdeckard
The hobbyist device maker in me took waaay to long to be certain that this is NOT about physical batteries...
(was already confident, then there's suddenly a screenshot mentioning display components)
- two_handfuls
For those struggling for context like me: this is about the Rust programming language.
- yjftsjthsd-h
> Battery packs are meant to address one of the most common things I hear from new Rust adopters. Everyone loves the wealth of high-quality crates available on crates.io. And everyone hates having to spend a bunch of time researching and comparing alternatives.
> [...]
> One of the key ideas from battery packs is that anybody can publish one.
So now we get to research and compare alternative battery packs? I guess it could help if there's fewer of them, but I don't see why that would be.
- efaref
I guess the name is intending to evoke the "batteries included" metaphor, but it seems pretty terrible to me.
If we're sticking with the crates/cargo metaphor, surely this should be called a "pallet".
- Arcuru
Since I don't see it mentioned yet, https://blessed.rs seems to be pretty popular for finding common/recommended crates in the Rust ecosystem.