The most creative, funny, clever, ridiculous, ... library names!

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  • tungstenite-rs

    Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation for Rust.

  • tungstenite: "Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation. It's formerly WS2, the 2nd implementation of WS. WS2 is the chemical formula of tungsten disulfide, the tungstenite mineral."

  • cargo-geiger

    Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies.

  • Technically a binary, not a library, but cargo-geiger, which detects usages of unsafe code in dependencies.

  • InfluxDB

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  • cargo-mommy

    Mommy's here to support you when running cargo~

  • rouille

    Rust programming, in French.

  • https://github.com/bnjbvr/rouille and its many forks

  • oSUS

    Some osu! utilities written in Rust.

  • Not a crate yet, but here's my oSUS project.

  • octocrab

    A modern, extensible GitHub API Client for Rust.

  • octocrab is a good one and a nice library.

  • abomonation

    A mortifying serialization library for Rust

  • Abomonation - "A mortifying serialization library for Rust"

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • genemichaels

    Even formats macros

  • Gene Michaels, code formatter

  • thirtyfour

    Selenium WebDriver client for Rust, for automated testing of websites

  • thirtyfour is a Selenium / WebDriver library for Rust, for automated website UI testing. 34 is the atomic number for the Selenium chemical element (Se).

  • ambassador

    Delegation of trait implementations via procedural macros

  • ambassador is the similar one

  • gitoxide

    An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git

  • gitoxide, because, well, everything around rust is kind-of low-hanging fruit of puns to make

  • libass

    libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format.

  • Not Rust but libass :D

  • lemmeknow

    The fastest way to identify anything!

  • lemmeknow - it let's you know what a text is. Basically identifies text / analyze strings in malware using regular expressions.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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