17 Rust’s most popular crates

This chapter covers

  • Serialization and deserialization with serde
  • Time with the time module and chrono crate
  • Speeding up your code with the rayon crate
  • Errors with the anyhow and thiserror crates
  • Statics with the lazy_static and once_cell crates
  • Blanket trait implementations on other types

This chapter is sort of a cookbook of some of the most popular external crates. These crates are so common that you can almost think of them as extensions of the standard library—they’re not just random crates sitting around that nobody uses. Learning just these few crates will allow you to turn data like JSON into Rust structs, work with time and time zones, handle errors with less code, speed up your code, and work with global ...

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