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by ssdfe 3339 days ago
I do wish cargo packages were namespaced a la Github. Squatting on usernames is one thing, but package and project names are often the only way you hear about something. cargo react-svg might be a terrible project or a good quality one maintained by facebook, but you wouldn't know from the name. Because of the name, it'll be at least somewhat downloaded if that's a common need. It makes grouping by org difficult too.
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I wrote cargo-esr[1], an alternative tool for searching crates, with the purpose of narrowing down good choices.

Feedback welcome.

[1] https://github.com/rust-alt/cargo-esr

Yeah I agree. It would be unfortunate if for example I were to register a crate called 'json' or 'http' or whatever but make it shit.