Crate of the Week

https://github.com/epi052/feroxbuster

https://github.com/sassman/t-rec-rs

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https://github.com/pemistahl/lingua-rs

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With Rust 1.48 out:

(If this is not visible, both points above are links to crates.io)

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https://github.com/tesselode/kira

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BreadX: The X Window protocol implemented in 100% safe and mutex-free Rust.

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https://github.com/AltSysrq/crymap

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From the ReadMe:

A set of macros for conveniently initializing Vec, HashMap, HashSet, BTreeMap, BTreeSet and iterators.

Not a new crate, but I just ran across cargo-inspect

https://github.com/mre/cargo-inspect

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How does it differ from cargo-expand?

cargo-expand just expands out macros and inlines modules. cargo-inspect will let you view what a for loop desugars to, for example. Practical purpose for most people? Probably not a ton. But for nerds like me…it's interesting.

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From the ReadMe:

Thermite is a WIP SIMD library focused on providing portable SIMD acceleration of SoA (Structure of Arrays) algorithms, using consistent-length1 SIMD vectors for lockstep iteration and computation.

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From the ReadMe:

An Rust implementation of asynchronous parallel streams analogous to rayon.

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As a response to BreadX, here is something even more powerful: x11rb

  • x11rb supports all the X11 extensions for which the libxcb project provides XML project (BreadX so far only supports the core X11 protocol that is older than I am)
    • Basically: All X11 extensions that are still relevant are supported
  • x11rb can be used as 100% safe Rust (with #[forbid(unsafe_code)])
  • When the allow-unsafe-code feature is enabled (which it is by default), you additionally gain access to an FFI-based libxcb interop. All the serializing / unserializing still happens in safe Rust and only the "on-the-wire bytes" are exchanged with libxcb
  • On Unix, x11rb also supports FD-passing. This allows to exchange file descriptors with the X11 server. For example, this is used by the shared memory extension to exchange shared memory in a safe way.
  • Also supports Windows (and this is even tested in CI) (but I guess BreadX also works on Windows)
  • Besides the pure protocol, there are also a couple of helpers to load cursor files, simplify image handling, and to access the X11 resource database (Xrm)

To be fair, the first commit to BreadX happened in June (half a year ago), while x11rb was started in September 2019 (15 months ago).

The only downside to x11rb is that you cannot opt-out Sync. However, I am also curious to see numbers for BreadX's claim "generally faster". Is Mutex really that bad for a network protocol? If so, one could easily add a variant to x11rb that uses RefCell instead of Mutex.

Since BreadX's README also says that its "dependencies are either safe or verified":

  • On Unix, x11rb depends on gethostname and nix
  • On Windows, x11rb depends on winapi and winapi-wsapoll (smaller wrapper crate that exposes a safe API to winapi's WSAPoll())
  • With the allow-unsafe-code feature, the libxcb FFI needs libc::free() and some type definitions from libc

I do not know what "verified" refers to, but I would say these dependencies are reasonable. The gethostname dependency is needed to properly deal with ~/.Xauthority files, which is something that BreadX does not support yet.

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Since my previous post apparently disappeared: x11rb, a crate similar to this week's BreadX, but supporting all the X11 extensions and file descriptor passing. Also, if you not disable the allow-unsafe-code cargo feature, there is FFI-based interoperability with libxcb (where all the "messing with bytes" still happens in safe Rust and only the "on-the-wire bytes" are exchanged with libxcb).

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From the ReadMe:

This crate is primarily used to load new function definitions from shared object files in an exceedingly easy way.

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The new experimental 5.0 release seems to be faster than FFTW:

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Autograd: Tensors and differentiable operations (like TensorFlow) in Rust

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nom-supreme is a crate of utilities for nom parsers, especially for great parse error handling.

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