dirs-rs

a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows (by dirs-dev)

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  • Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2022
    There are several libraries that handle directory for you in the appropriate OS-specific manner.

    One Rust example being https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-rs

    > The library provides the location of these directories by leveraging the mechanisms defined by

    > the XDG base directory and the XDG user directory specifications on Linux and Redox

    > the Known Folder API on Windows

    > the Standard Directories guidelines on macOS

  • Rust 1.62.0 pre-release testing
    2 projects | /r/rust | 28 Jun 2022
    Yes. We have dirs for that, folks!
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (5/2021)!
    13 projects | /r/rust | 1 Feb 2021
    I'm using dirs to get the home directory. However, dirs::home_dir() returns an Option, which I can't quite grasp how to extract the string from, and the repo doesn't have examples for it either.
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