Note wanted libraries

Travis CI Status

Audio

See Computer Graphics and Game Development.

Collections

See Containers.

Compression

We want compression/decompression support for TAR and ZIP file formats.

• alexcrichton/rust-compress: compression algorithms, all written in rust
• erickt/rustzlib: libzlib bindings.
  • Status: last commit in December 2012
• thestinger/rust-snappy: libsnappy bindings
  • Status: last commit in September 2013

Computation

• GMP
  • thestinger/rust-gmp
• OpenCL
  • eholk/rust-opencl: OpenCL bindings

Concurrency

• task management, actor, OTP, Bikeshed mapreduce, pools

Crypto

Do not belong in std.

• crypto
• DaGenix/rust-crypto:
• LibNSS
  • mletterle/rust-nss
• libsodium
  • dnaq/sodiumoxide
• OpenSSL
  • erickt/rustcrypto: OpenSSL libcrypto bindings
  • sfackler/rust-ssl

Database Access

Do not belong in std.

• NoSql
  • LevelDB
    • lht/rust-leveldb
  • MongoDB
    • 10gen-interns/mongo-rust-driver-prototype
  • Redis
    • mneumann/rust-redis
• SQL
  • PostgreSql
    • sfackler/rust-postgres:
  • Sqlite
    • linuxfood/rustsqlite: Sqlite3 bindings

Date and Time

• luisbg/rust-datetime
• tedhorst/rust_datetime

Encoding

• Base64
• Cap'n Proto
  • dwrensha/capnproto-rust:
• Character Encoding
  • lifthrasiir/rust-encoding:
• CSV
  • grahame/rust-csv
  • koko1000ban/rust-csv-parser
• HTML
  • veddan/rust-htmlescape:
• JSON
• MsgPck
  • mneumann/rust-msgpack
  • omasanori/msgpack-rust
• ProtocolBuffers
  • stepancheg/rust-protobuf:
• S-Expressions
  • darkf/rust_sexpr
• Thrift
  • see https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/1677
• Tnetstring
  • erickt/rust-tnetstring:
• XML
  • bjz/sax-rs: bindings to libxml2's SAX parser
  • Florob/RustyXML

Graphics

See Computer Graphics and Game Development.

GUI

• Cocoa
  • mozilla-servo/rust-cocoa
• Gtk
  • JeremyLetang/rgtk
• ncurses
  • drhodes/rust-ncurses
  • eevee/amulet
  • jeaye/ncurses-rs:
• Termbox
  • apribadi/rust-termbox
• wxWidgets
  • kenz-gelsoft/wxRust:

IO

• AIO, SIO, stdio
• filesystem
• path manipulation
• <> or fileinput.
• timers

Localizability

• one aspect of L10n is to map a key to a text, based on the current locale (eg Java's ResourceBundle or GNU gettext)
• another aspect is to format a string based on the current locale (eg Java's MessageFormat)
• See issue #4630

Mathematics

• bjz/lmath-rs

Misc

• low-level OS services
• Simple search on a filesystem (eg Ruby's glob)
• unit testing
• FFI, ctypes
• dlopen, os processes
• standard predicates
• text, numeric, sorted
• error-trapping wrappers, in-place task?
• Consistent error handling
• quotas, accounting
• reflection

Networking

• GUID
• HTTP
  • rust-http:
• URI/URL
  • SimonSapin/rust-url
• UUID
• NanoMsg
  • glycerine/rust-nanomsg
• ZeroMQ
  • erickt/rust-zmq:

Parser Generator

• erickt/ragel
• jesse99/rparse
• kevinmehall/rust-peg

Random Numbers

• random

Regular Expressions

See https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/3591

• sanxiyn/rree
• PCRE
  • cadencemarseille/rust-pcre:
  • erickt/rustpcre
  • glennsl/rust-re
  • luqmana/rust-regex2
  • uasi/rust-pcre:

String manipulation

• Slicing w/o copy, stringref
• Ropes
• Tokenizer
• Unicode
  • Unicode
  • Convertions between text encodings. Ideally, with a customizable way of handling conversion errors.
  • Unicode normalization (NFD, NFC, NFKD, NFKC)
  • Collator (locale sensitive string comparison), with a configurable degree of strictness

Template engine

• Mustache
  • erickt/rust-mustache:

Testing

• QuickCheck
  • mcandre/rustcheck

Web Programming

• erickt/rust-mongrel2: bindings for the Mongrel2 webserver
• skade/widmann: