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by mlindner 2142 days ago
There's a bigger problem that someone has reserved a ton of common names and they're all empty projects with nothing in them.
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Or even in a non-malicious case: https://crates.io/crates/logger

"logger" is now forever a middleware for the iron framework. Same with "router". Iron is pretty much obsolete now.

that sounds like a good thing.

It might have been good if the rust team themseleves had pre-squated

get rid of all the common names arguments and have everyone use prefixed or unique names