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by wongarsu 1616 days ago
Crates.io is great, but it certainly has a discoverability issue. Even knowing about reqwest it's far from trivial to conjure up a search that yields reqwest on the first result page. And I'm sorely missing features like "crates that use this also use" and "instead of this crate, others use".

If I had infinite time on my hands it would be a fun exercise to try to improve on it.
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tempest_ 1616 days ago
I disagree that is hard to find this.

Searching "Http request in rust" for me yields the the rust cookbook on the first result, which is using reqwest! (https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/web/client...)

Regardless I agree that crates.io could have some more features but I am not sure how useful I would find a recommendation engine.

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staticassertion 1616 days ago
Right, but isn't it a bit of a shame that I search "http" in crates.io, the site that theoretically should be serving the "find a crate" use case, and I don't get suggestions that are useful?
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dureuill 1616 days ago
there is lib.rs that I find much more efficient to discover crates.

Requests is currently #6 in its Web programming > HTTP client category[0]. The download counts, number of contributors, version history, and dependent crates is also prominently displayed.

[0]: https://lib.rs/web-programming/http-client

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