The ecosystem of crates
Compared to other languages, you will see that there is a tendency in Rust to move functionalities out of the core language into their own crates. It serves to keep the standard library small, thereby reducing the size of compiled apps. This is done, for example, for working with dates and times (see next section), or for providing special concurrency primitives.
An ever-growing ecosystem of crates for Rust is at your disposal at https://crates.io/, with nearing 11,000 crates in stock at the time of writing (Sep 2017). This repository site is also a showcase, because it is written in Rust! You can search for crates on specific keywords or categories, or browse them alphabetically or on the number of downloads. Find ...
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