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Tips on Cargo

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Create a Project

cargo init
cargo new project_name
cargo new --lib project_name

Install a Rust Crate (Package)

Install a Rust crate from GitHub (the default branch).

cargo install --git https://github …

Rust Crates for RPC

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

prost

prost is a Protocol Buffers implementation for the Rust Language. It helps generate simple, idiomatic Rust code from proto2 and proto3 files.

Useful Rust Crates for Bit Manipulations

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

bytemuck

ByteMuck is a crate for mucking around with piles of bytes. It lets you safely perform "bit cast" operations between data types. That's where you take a value and just …