Any plans for built-in support of Vec2/Vec3/Vec4 in Rust?

• cgmath-rs

  4 1,101 0.0 Rust

  A linear algebra and mathematics library for computer graphics.

  

But I am writing a Vulkan-based game engine and I use https://crates.io/crates/cgmath extensively. It has vector classes, all the math functions I need, and it even supports a version of swizzling if you activate the feature. Maybe this crate can do what you need?

• regex

  91 3,345 9.1 Rust

  An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.

  

In fact, there are a lot of crates in Rust where in other programming languages, it would be included in the standard library. Examples are regex, random number generators, additional iterator methods, macros for other collections, num traits, loggers, HTTP libraries, error handling, async runtimes, serialization and deserialization, date and time, and many more.

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• tokio

  196 24,677 9.5 Rust

  A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

  

In fact, there are a lot of crates in Rust where in other programming languages, it would be included in the standard library. Examples are regex, random number generators, additional iterator methods, macros for other collections, num traits, loggers, HTTP libraries, error handling, async runtimes, serialization and deserialization, date and time, and many more.

• serde

  191 8,558 9.2 Rust

  Serialization framework for Rust

  

In fact, there are a lot of crates in Rust where in other programming languages, it would be included in the standard library. Examples are regex, random number generators, additional iterator methods, macros for other collections, num traits, loggers, HTTP libraries, error handling, async runtimes, serialization and deserialization, date and time, and many more.

• rand

  29 1,568 8.2 Rust

  A Rust library for random number generation.

  

In fact, there are a lot of crates in Rust where in other programming languages, it would be included in the standard library. Examples are regex, random number generators, additional iterator methods, macros for other collections, num traits, loggers, HTTP libraries, error handling, async runtimes, serialization and deserialization, date and time, and many more.

• async-std

  19 3,836 5.3 Rust

  Async version of the Rust standard library

  

In fact, there are a lot of crates in Rust where in other programming languages, it would be included in the standard library. Examples are regex, random number generators, additional iterator methods, macros for other collections, num traits, loggers, HTTP libraries, error handling, async runtimes, serialization and deserialization, date and time, and many more.

• Pandas

  393 41,923 10.0 Python

  Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

  

Is this really true? Python do not have first class support for Vec2 etc., but because of Python libraries such as numpy and pandas, a lot of data scientists and engineers use Python for these exact libraries.

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  The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.

  

Is this really true? Python do not have first class support for Vec2 etc., but because of Python libraries such as numpy and pandas, a lot of data scientists and engineers use Python for these exact libraries.

• rust

  2,682 92,831 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

If that were the case then I would see less linear algebra and more of type theory and category theory in stdlib, like monads, etc. In fact, they are adding a bunch of type theory stuff right now!

• portable-simd

  19 810 8.7 Rust

  The testing ground for the future of portable SIMD in Rust

  

See: https://github.com/rust-lang/portable-simd

• rust-gpu

  82 6,930 8.2 Rust

  🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧

  

Isn't std::simd (nightly) what you're looking for? (Swizzling primitives, vectorized arithmetic, etc) Regardless, GPU and SIMD don't use the same abstractions because it's not a clean fit. There would need to be a rather clever innovation to make optimal code for both from a single abstraction. But rust-gpu is another project that might interest you.

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