13 The Rust Ecosystem

Programming rarely happens in a vacuum these days—nearly every Rust crate you build is likely to take dependencies on some code that wasn’t written by you. Whether this trend is good, bad, or a little of both is a subject of heavy debate, but either way, it’s a reality of today’s developer experience.

In this brave new interdependent world, it’s more important than ever to have a solid grasp of what libraries and tools are available and to stay up to date on the latest and greatest of what the Rust community has to offer. This chapter is dedicated to how you can leverage, track, understand, and contribute back to the ...

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