Nim: Curated Packages

Re:Nim: Curated Packages by 41b696ef1113 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:07AM (#31537521)

Fair question. Noting that I am a Python person who has only tooled around with Rust a bit, a few packages I think warrant inclusion because the base options are too anemic:

  - Command line parsing (more feature rich the manually iterating over args)
  - (De)Compression: tar, zip, gzip, bzip2
  - CSV parser
  - Date time 
  - Hashing: md5, sha1, sha256
  - HTTP requests
  - Logging
  - Random generation: ints, floats, sampling, uuids
  - Regex
  - SQLite bindings
  - (De)serialization: json, ini, toml, yaml
  - System niceties: where is user home?, # of cpus?

Appreciating some of these are quite complex, and probably best left to a crate that has more leeway in experimentation/breaking APIs.

Edit: tried to make the formatting less bad

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Re:Nim: Curated Packages by waaveshine on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:44AM (#31537909)

Maybe some of these can be chalked up to language philosophy or APIs as you said, but many of these would be welcome additions in my eyes.

I think regex, time, and crates like num_cpus would especially be nice to have. There's plenty of those types of crates where it feels like you can't compile a single project without seeing it float by as you build the dependencies.

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Re:Nim: Curated Packages by shepmaster on Saturday May 28, 2022 @07:42AM (#31539532)

> and crates like num_cpus

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.available_parallelis... — Rust 1.59

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