I've been learning Rust for 3 days and this is my first impression

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  1. num

    A collection of numeric types and traits for Rust.

    Use num: https://github.com/rust-num/num

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  3. zig

    General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

    https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Integers https://github.com/ziglang/zig/commit/dc8bda7e0203410132e0689b7561d9e8731176e9

  4. LittleIntPacker

    C library to pack and unpack short arrays of integers as fast as possible

    I think the best fit is bit fields. But you’d probably be better suited with a library like https://github.com/lemire/LittleIntPacker

  5. rfcs

    RFCs for changes to Rust

    [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0212-restore-int-fallback.md

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