wedge_of_existence VS dirs-rs

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

dirs-rs

a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows (by dirs-dev)
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wedge_of_existence dirs-rs
2 3
2 603
- 2.3%
0.0 2.9
about 3 years ago 29 days ago
Rust Rust
- Apache License 2.0
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wedge_of_existence

Posts with mentions or reviews of wedge_of_existence. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-01.

dirs-rs

Posts with mentions or reviews of dirs-rs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-29.
  • Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2022
    There are several libraries that handle directory for you in the appropriate OS-specific manner.

    One Rust example being https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-rs

    > The library provides the location of these directories by leveraging the mechanisms defined by

    > the XDG base directory and the XDG user directory specifications on Linux and Redox

    > the Known Folder API on Windows

    > the Standard Directories guidelines on macOS

  • Rust 1.62.0 pre-release testing
    2 projects | /r/rust | 28 Jun 2022
    Yes. We have dirs for that, folks!
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (5/2021)!
    13 projects | /r/rust | 1 Feb 2021
    I'm using dirs to get the home directory. However, dirs::home_dir() returns an Option, which I can't quite grasp how to extract the string from, and the repo doesn't have examples for it either.

What are some alternatives?

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

ruggrogue - A simple web-playable roguelike made with Rust and SDL, with Emscripten for the browser port

libsqlfs - a library that implements a POSIX style filesystem on top of an SQLite database

aoc-runner-derive

tail - My implementation of the tail tool to (continuously) read the tail end of a file. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_(Unix)

rust-peg - Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) parser generator for Rust

nix-1p - A (more or less) one page introduction to Nix, the language.

not_snake_game - A snake-inspired game made in Rust using the Bevy game engine.

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

nix-book - Nix documentation – centralized community online learning resource for Nix

rust-sdl2 - SDL2 bindings for Rust

sqlfs - Sqlite FUSE filesystem with sqlcipher support