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0 pointssteveklabnik2y ago0 comments

Note that boost is also not the C++ standard library.

A few people have tried to make boost-like meta-packages in Rust over the years, but in practice, people don’t use them, and they die out.

Also, like, serde's main maintainer is also a member of the libs team, so it being moved into the standard library meaning more maintenance doesn't really make sense to me.

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thesuperbigfrog2y ago

>> Note that boost is also not the C++ standard library.

I know, but many components that are now in the C++ standard library were previously in Boost or were heavily influenced by / inspired by Boost:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59912393/boost-libraries...

Similar events also happened in Java 8 with the Joda time library:

https://www.joda.org/joda-time/

>> serde's main maintainer is also a member of the libs team, so it being moved into the standard library meaning more maintenance doesn't really make sense to me.

I did not know that.

I was just using serde as an example of a widely-used crate that feels essential enough to be included in the Rust standard library.

At what point does a third-party crate become so useful that it might be considered for inclusion in the Rust standard library?

Is there a process for adding crates to the Rust standard library?

If so, how do such crates get nominated and approved?

steveklabnikOP2y ago

The process is roughly the same as the boost one: the rust project maintains a number of packages outside the standard library, such as regex. Projects may graduate from the community to being owned by the project. And then, if the team decides that it's a good decision, a package owned by the project can move into the standard library.

It happens pretty rarely because there is not much advantage to doing so, but the path does exist.

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