Idea: The “left-pad index”, a score for Rust crates that combines small size with popularity. The goal would be to find potential candidates for additions to the standard library, or at least merging into larger crates.
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It's a tradeoff: "batteries included" standard libraries are nice in that an official distribution generally has a more secure software supply chain, ideally stretching all the way to distribution releases... In absence of that, I think frameworks help:https://iqlusion.blog/introducing-abscissa-rust-application-framework …
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At the cost of fewer people using the standard library. no_std is getting more and more popular because people *already* think the standard library is bloated. If Rust gets a reputation for having a bloated stdlib that threatens its claim to being a systems language.
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Maybe the best solution is to group small, popular, related crates together under a trusted organization. e.g. same-file and walkdir could be in a fs-utils crate. That kind of thing.
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I like this because you can get individual crates or grab the whole utility belt.
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Isn't the square-the-circle solution to have the Rust team ship some things even if they aren't in the "standard library"?
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we already do this a lot fwiw
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Perhaps the "merge into larger crates" bit is the one to focus on, not the std addition path.
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