Useful Crates - Learning the Rust Ecosystem

Matt Davies walks us through some top crates in the Rust Ecosystem, hosted on crates.io.
He gives us a whistle stop tour of:
1. log - lightweight logging facade to provide a consistent API for different logging implementations
2. env_logger - A simple logging crate, implementing the facade provided by the log crate, which can be configured via environment variables
3. chrono - for all your time keeping needs
4. uuid - generates and parses UUIDs (standard 128 bit universally unique identifiers)
5. rand - for all your random needs
6. bitflags - typesafe bitmask flag generator useful for sets of C-style bitmask flags
7. tinyvec - provides useful speedy and sometimes stack allocated vec like data structures
8. dirs - for all your cross platform directory needs
9. itertools - all the extra iterator bells and whistles you could need
10. anyhow - allows you to easily propagate any error that implements the `std::error::Error` trait
11. tap - provides extensions to allow you to conveniently insert debugging or modification points into an expression without changing the surrounding code (tapping the expression, like you would tap a phone)
12. rayon - for work stealing data-parallelism
13. colored - adding pretty colors to your terminal
Presenter(s): Matt Davies
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[@irlshrek]

thanks for this! chrono is is not being maintained anymore and its recommended to use the `time` crate now

[@josecarloscirqueirajunior2914]

thanks