What crates would you consider essential?

1. serde

   1 199 9,619 9.0 Rust

   Serialization framework for Rust

   

   serde and serde_json - https://github.com/serde-rs/serde & https://crates.io/crates/serde\_json

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3. chumsky

   2 55 4,005 8.8 Rust

   Write expressive, high-performance parsers with ease.

   

   That said, this feature (collecting into custom types) is in development, along with a whole heap of extra stuff, in the zero-copy branch.

4. clap-rs

   3 158 14,944 9.7 Rust

   A full featured, fast Command Line Argument Parser for Rust

   

   Link to docs: https://crates.io/crates/clap

5. rand

   4 33 1,823 8.8 Rust

   A Rust library for random number generation.

   

   Link to docs: https://crates.io/crates/rand

6. rayon

   5 68 11,680 6.9 Rust

   Rayon: A data parallelism library for Rust

   

   Rayon for simple parallelisation.

7. thiserror

   6 16 4,851 9.2 Rust

   derive(Error) for struct and enum error types

   

   thiserror - https://crates.io/crates/thiserror

8. actix-web

   7 180 22,790 9.2 Rust

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

   

   actix-web - https://crates.io/crates/actix-web

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

10. futures-rs

    8 12 5,590 7.9 Rust

    Zero-cost asynchronous programming in Rust

    

    futures

11. tracing

    9 55 5,865 7.1 Rust

    Application level tracing for Rust.

    

    I think any project instantly becomes better to work with when it has good logging. For that reason tracing is something I always use: https://crates.io/crates/tracing

12. pest

    10 47 4,890 7.4 Rust

    The Elegant Parser (by pest-parser)

    

    Have you seen pest? It's probably not going to have the best performance, but you can get off the ground quickly. I've been using it lately and really dig it.

13. tracing_prism

    11 2 14 0.0 Rust

    Side by side split of async log files

    

    yeah, I use Instrumented from tracing-futures to instrument executors, then I wrote tracing_prism to show logs of several components side by side in a browser.

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