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Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

23 pointsby MeetingsBrowserlast Thursday at 10:48 PM9 commentsview on HN

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rickdeckardtoday at 8:22 AM

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_handfulstoday at 5:36 AM

For those struggling for context like me: this is about the Rust programming language.

yjftsjthsd-htoday at 7:29 AM

> 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.

ho_lee_phuktoday at 8:12 AM

Go ecosystems seems to choose quality over quantity (fewer higher-quality libraries) over Rust.

What seems to be causing this?

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wseqyrkutoday at 6:18 AM

Off we go comparing battery packs.

Seriously though, I wish the dual futures, streams types to be consolidated first than building anything on top of the situation.

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