Are there any categories or subcategories that should be added on crates.io? Should any categories be split or merged?
You can see the list of categories here and their crates here.
To get some data, here are most popular keywords in each category:
- algorithms = hash, algorithm, random, mathematics, math, sort, graph, numerics, rng, algorithms
- api-bindings = api, gstreamer, audio, ffi, multimedia, gnome, database, amqp, video, gmp
- asynchronous = async, futures, tokio, asynchronous, io, future, non-blocking, networking, http, concurrency
- authentication = authentication, security, cryptography, password, serialization, web, encryption, jwt, crypto, merkle
- caching = cache, caching, memoization, lazy, redis, lru
- command-line-interface = cli, terminal, argument, color, clap, tui, parser, git, console, readline
- command-line-utilities = cli, git, command-line, cargo, file, terminal, markdown, tool, search, command-line-tool
- compression = compression, gzip, zlib, deflate, decompression, encoding, compress
- concurrency = concurrency, parallel, thread, atomic, futures, lock-free, coroutine, mutex, threadpool, actor
- config = config, configuration, json, yaml, toml, environment, dotenv, settings, env
- cryptography = cryptography, crypto, hash, security, encryption, digest, block-cipher, password, curve25519, authentication
- data-structures = data-structures, data-structure, vec, map, array, tree, vector, hashmap, container, graph
- database = database, sql, nosql, postgres, lmdb, orm, postgresql, migration, client, graph
- database-implementations = database, blockchain, storage, graph, search, bitcoin
- date-and-time = time, date, calendar, cron, chrono, duration, schedule, float, periodic
- development-tools = cargo, git, cargo-subcommand, kailua, cli, build, macro, testing, language, plugin
- development-tools::build-utils = build, cargo, subcommand, cli
- development-tools::cargo-plugins = cargo, subcommand, plugin, cargo-subcommand, tests, mobile, build, ios, android, cli
- development-tools::debugging = logging, log, debug, logger, slog, elf, dwarf, binary, structured, file
- development-tools::ffi = ffi, c, bindings, compiler, ios, objective-c, gnome, gstreamer, win32
- development-tools::procedural-macro-helpers = syn, nom, proc-macro, derive, macro, enum, macros, reflection, type
- development-tools::profiling = tests, benchmark, profiler, mobile, ios, android, cargo, timer
- development-tools::testing = testing, test, mock, mocking, tdd, bdd, quickcheck, unit-test, property, tests
- email = email, imap, mime
- embedded = arm, cortex-m, stm32, embedded, svd2rust, embedded-hal-driver, no-std, hal, embedded-hal, no_std
- emulators = emulator, interpreter, machine, learning, esolang
- encoding = serde, serialization, encoding, json, base64, parser, encode, binary, decode, deserialization
- external-ffi-bindings = ffi, bindings, wayland, dpdk, compositor, audio, networking, ffi-wrapper, cryptography, database
- filesystem = filesystem, file, directory, fs, io, storage, path, fuse, archive, files
- game-engines = gamedev, graphics, engine, 2d, sprite, game-engine, ai, ecs, gui, vector
- games = game, chess, games, gamedev, vector, steam, cards, graphics, sprite, 2d
- gui = gui, wayland, web, ui, graphics, asmjs, webasm, tui, javascript, window
- hardware-support = arm, cortex-m, embedded-hal-driver, hal, stm32, serial, svd2rust, embedded-hal, hardware, embedded
- internationalization = unicode, character-property, internationalization, localization, text, i18n, l10n, version, intl, grapheme
- localization = localization, internationalization, l10n, i18n, intl, chinese
- memory-management = allocator, memory, slab, pool, rc, alloc, box, no_std, malloc
- multimedia = image, audio, gstreamer, multimedia, graphics, video, dsp, gnome, ffi, p2p
- multimedia::audio = audio, sound, music, mp3, decoder, gamedev, signal, codec, midi, dsp
- multimedia::encoding = audio, webm
- multimedia::images = image, color, svg, rgb, bitmap, gif, jpeg, bmp, palette, png
- multimedia::video = video, youtube, encoder, subtitle, hardware, animation
- network-programming = networking, network, http, dns, tokio, protocol, dpdk, proxy, async, packet
- no-std = arm, cortex-m, no_std, stm32, embedded, cryptography, svd2rust, hash, embedded-hal-driver, wasm
- os = system, command, memory, os, window, linux, process
- os::macos-apis = system, macos
- os::unix-apis = system, linux, unix, freebsd, udp, docker, process, memory, ipc, shared
- os::windows-apis = windows, ffi, win32
- parser-implementations = parser, parsing, atom, nom, lexer, ssh, csv, json, javascript, bytecode
- parsing = parser, parsing, nom, peg, text, html, xml, grammar, parse, protocol
- rendering = graphics, gamedev, rendering, vulkan, gui, sprite, glsl, shadertoy, shaders, character-property
- rendering::data-formats = graphics, text, image, font, glsl, ttf, opengl, 2d, 3d
- rendering::engine = game, ffi
- rendering::graphics-api = graphics, vulkan, opengl, vulkan-api, spir-v, gui, graphics-programming, input, bindings, gpu
- rust-patterns = macro, error, iterator, derive, string, no_std, static, di, data-structure, async
- science = math, linear-algebra, mathematics, science, astronomy, machine-learning, units, weather, numerics, physics
- simulation = simulation
- template-engine = template, html, templating, web, template-engine, jinja2, handlebars, macro
- text-editors = cickets
- text-processing = text, unicode, nlp, string, character-property, markdown, fuzzy, parser, cli, parsing
- value-formatting = format, numbers, bytes, formatting, string, humanize, float
- visualization = visualization, plot, gui
- wasm = wasm, javascript, binding-generator, webassembly, js
- web-programming = web, http, javascript, rocket, wasm, api, microservices, iron, zipkin, html
- web-programming::http-client = http, client, hyper, rest, api, request, https, web, jsonrpc, tokio
- web-programming::http-server = http, web, server, framework, hyper, iron, rocket, file, static, middleware
- web-programming::websocket = websocket, websockets, web, http, async, rfc6455, io, pubsub, tokio
And here are most popular keywords, except the keywords listed above:
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