Problem understanding Crates

• crates.io

  662 2,802 10.0 Rust

  The Rust package registry

  

Unfortunatly the term crate is used for both, rustc's compilation units as well as Cargo packages. Historically crate was clearly the term for a Rust compilation unit and some people stick to this convention. Unfortunatly others, like the crates.io website have popularized the usage for packages. This is indeed confusing and will hopefully be resolved at some point in the future.

• ripgrep

  348 45,040 9.3 Rust

  ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

Both! Here's an example of a binary crate.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• cargo-edit

  45 2,992 7.4 Rust

  A utility for managing cargo dependencies from the command line.

E.g. cargo-edit. It contains multiple binaries (and a library crate which you can't see below):

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