dirs VS directories-rs

Compare dirs vs directories-rs and see what are their differences.

dirs

a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows (by xdg-rs)

directories-rs

a mid-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows (by dirs-dev)
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dirs directories-rs
1 5
182 689
1.1% 4.8%
0.0 4.0
about 1 year ago 7 months ago
Rust Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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dirs

Posts with mentions or reviews of dirs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-16.

directories-rs

Posts with mentions or reviews of directories-rs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dirs and directories-rs you can also consider the following projects:

watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications

rattler - Rust crates to work with the Conda ecosystem.

wasmer - 🚀 The leading Wasm Runtime supporting WASIX, WASI and Emscripten

boxxy - boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. [Moved to: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty]

xdg-ninja - A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

config-finder-rust - Rust crate to easily find config files and directories for your CLI application

espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

platformdirs - A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".

cibuildwheel - 🎡 Build Python wheels for all the platforms with minimal configuration.