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We have getrandom at home
Making compatibility promises for distributions means they cannot take advantage of potential advancements in the field.
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Blog Post: On Random Numbers
Defining an error type that is meaningful, portable, and compatible with no-std isn't straightforward. If the std lib's getrandom requires std, then just like that, rand and many other crates won't use it anyway. Using io::Result seems to me to face this challenge.
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (52/2022)!
Some wasm targets can’t generate random numbers at all but in the case of the book because you are using wasm in a browser you can use JS to generate random numbers. I believe there’s a way to get the rand crate to use JS as the backend for generating rand but its a bit more convoluted than the easy one-liner that the book suggests.
- Data-driven performance optimization with Rust and Miri
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What crates are considered as de-facto standard?
rand
- Why Rust?
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[Media] Nebulabrot rendered with Rust — Explanations in the comments
This uses rand and xcomplex to handle the mathematics, png to write image files, and dialoguer and indicatif for some pretty prompts and progress bars.
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Do you ever use unsafe { .. } when not implementing custom data structures or interacting with external C code?
You can often achieve this without any unsafe by putting an assert!() on the length before the hot loop. For example, I got rid of some unsafe in rand that way.
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Original source of `(seed * 9301 and 49297) % 233280` random algorithm?
This is a widely used method to map random integers to floating point numbers, but it has the disadvantage of wasting 1 bit of float mantissa precision.
On modern CPUs, its computational advantage over full-precision mapping methods, such as multiplication by a float, is not always clear [1].
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Any plans for built-in support of Vec2/Vec3/Vec4 in Rust?
In fact, there are a lot of crates in Rust where in other programming languages, it would be included in the standard library. Examples are regex, random number generators, additional iterator methods, macros for other collections, num traits, loggers, HTTP libraries, error handling, async runtimes, serialization and deserialization, date and time, and many more.
cargo-edit
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (23/2023)!
“cargo add” from https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit has that behavior, but not the built in one that was added to cargo
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Is Rust's cargo-edit crate still relevant?
I have also noticed that the last commit of cargo-edit crate's GitHub repo (https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit) was two days ago (pretty recent.) So it is probably relevant for a lot of people.
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What are some useful tools for Rust?
cargo-upgrade from cargo-edit (somewhat more intentional than builtin update)
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How to list upgradable crates programmatically
I've also tried cargo-upgrade from cargo-edit like so:
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (9/2023)!
You can also see how other crates do it. For example, cargo-edit is just like that - a single package with a library with a couple of small cli wrappers around it. You can compare their Cargo.toml to yours, maybe there is something different about them.
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`toml` vs `toml_edit` (ie `toml` 0.6 is out)
Just to check, are you aware of cargo-edit's cargo-set-version or cargo-release?
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Rust 1.66
Speaking of cargo remove, see also cargo-edit [0] from which adding and removing originally came, as well as cargo-binstall [1] which installs binaries rather than compiling from source every time. The binaries are updatable with cargo-update [2].
The latter two can replace a package manager for Rust related utilities, as I often find that those in OS package repositories are often not as up to date as directly from cargo.
[0] https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit
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TIL about cargo add
For context, it was/is part of cargo-edit crate which provides other nice functionalities as well. Hope all gets integrated in time.
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clap 4.0.0, a Rust argument parser, is released!
cargo-edit
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Announcing Rust 1.64.0
cargo-upgrade now supports it in 0.11.2
What are some alternatives?
nexus-repository-cargo - Nexus Repository Cargo Format
cargo-outdated - A cargo subcommand for displaying when Rust dependencies are out of date
cargo-do - allows you to run multiple cargo commands in a row
Cargo - The Rust package manager
cargo-dot - Generate graphs of a Cargo project's dependencies
cargo-script - Cargo script subcommand
fastrand - A simple and fast random number generator
cargo-watch - Watches over your Cargo project's source.
cargo-multi - Extends cargo to execute the given command on multiple crates - upstream is at
fast-float-rust - Super-fast float parser in Rust (now part of Rust core)
anyhow - Flexible concrete Error type built on std::error::Error
cargo-graph