rand VS fastrand

Compare rand vs fastrand and see what are their differences.

rand

A Rust library for random number generation. (by rust-random)

fastrand

A simple and fast random number generator (by smol-rs)
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rand fastrand
29 3
1,553 345
2.4% 4.1%
8.2 5.7
6 days ago 5 days ago
Rust Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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rand

Posts with mentions or reviews of rand. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-11.

fastrand

Posts with mentions or reviews of fastrand. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rand and fastrand you can also consider the following projects:

fast-float-rust - Super-fast float parser in Rust (now part of Rust core)

winapi-rs - Rust bindings to Windows API

yew - Rust / Wasm framework for creating reliable and efficient web applications

cargo-fuzz - Command line helpers for fuzzing

rust - Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266

log - Logging implementation for Rust

regex - An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.

rust-sdl2 - SDL2 bindings for Rust

rayon - Rayon: A data parallelism library for Rust

json - JSON for Modern C++

thiserror - derive(Error) for struct and enum error types

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.