A list of useful and relatively mature crates for various tasks, for you need a de-facto-standard way of doing stuff.

Basically, if there’s an obvious answer to a common “how do I do X” question, or if someone might ask “Why isn’t X in std?”, X should go here.

Now at https://github.com/icefoxen/arewestdlibyet

To do: Short descriptions, links to crates, note whether or not it is pure rust

Bit mongling/endianness stuff

• bitflags
• byteorder

Compression

• bzip2
• flate2
• zip

Control structures(?)

• itertools

Cryptography

• openssl

Data structures

• phf
• typemap
• arrayvec

File/directory stuff

• tempdir

Graphics

Low-level

• gfx
• vulkano
• ash
• glium

Higher-level

• conrod?

Windowing/context creation

• glutin
• winit
• glfw
• sdl2

Font stuff

• rusttype

Misc

• genmesh

Image loading/saving

• image

Kitchen sink

• odds
• monster

Languages

Lua

• hlua

Other

• gluon

Logging

• env_logger
• log

Math

Numerical traits/generics

• num

Vector algebra/computer graphics/physics

• nalgebra
• cgmath

Misc

• noise

Memory management

• typed_arena

Misc stuff

• semver

Parsing/formatting

JSON

• serde_json

TOML

• toml

Parser generators

Platform-specific interfacing

Windows

• winapi

Linux

Mac

Misc

• num_cpus

Random numbers

• rand

Reference/lifetime mongling

• rental
• owning_ref
• lazy_static
• thread_local

Serialization

• rustc_serialize
• serde

Text/string/templating stuff

• handlebars
• symtern
• regex

Thread management

• threadpool

Time

• time
• chrono

Web stuff

HTTP libraries

• hyper
• solicit

Web frameworks

• pencil
• iron

Misc

• cookie
• formdata
• idna