Note wanted libraries

Notes taken at rust work week, 2011/06/23

Things that standard libraries might want

• collections (see Containers)
• IO
• AIO, SIO, stdio
• filesystem
• path manipulation
• <> or fileinput
• timers
• string manipulation
• slicing w/o copy, stringref
• regexp (external)
• ropes
• networking
• HTTP
• client
  • rust-http-client (external)
• server
  • rwebserve (external)
• URI/URL
• UUID (external)
• GUID
• date and time
  • rust_datetime (external)
• math (external)
• random
• compression (external)
• libicu
• serialization/encoding
• base64
• CSV (external)
• json
• protobuf
• thrift
• tnetstring (external)
• xml
• crypto (external)
• concurrency
• task management, actor, OTP, Bikeshed mapreduce, pools
• low-level OS services
• unit testing
• FFI, ctypes
• dlopen, os proceses
• standard predicates
• text, numeric, sorted
• error-trapping wrappers, in-place task?
• Consistent error handling
• quotas, accounting
• reflection

Things that do not belong in std

• DB API (sql, nosql)
  • postgres
  • mongodb
  • redis (external)
  • sqlite (external)
• ZeroMQ (external)
• How will libs like this be integrated with regular nonblocking io?
• ZeroMQ sockets need to be used from a fixed thread, can we do this in rust?
• GUI
• Cocoa (external)

Missing language features

• big
• any
• claim
• note