On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 11:55:42 UTC, rjframe wrote:
- I click "Browse All Crates"; the default sort is alphabetical
- not
useful unless I'm just browsing,
Right side:
* Alphabetical
* All-Time Downloads
* Recent Downloads
even then I'd likely want to browse by category.
https://crates.io/categories
Each project takes up too much space (it looks like something's
missing on each project), but I like the links to the
project's
homepage/repo/docs being right there in the list.
- I don't see any sort of categories/tags to organize projects.
https://crates.io/categories
I guess I
have to know what I'm looking for and use the right search
term.
- Overall, I have the impression that it was designed to look
good, but
less effort has gone into what people will want to do with it
in the
first place (assuming I can consider myself normal for a
moment).
Dub doesn't look so nice, but it's efficient; I could see me
searching Cargo for something and not finding it;
True... but both dub and cargo are not exactly the pinnacle in
user friendly and informative packages websites.
I've never thought that about Dub (granted, far fewer packages)
or Pypi.
1,193 packages found
13,605 Crates in stock Side note: End of 2016, this was 1400.
If you consider 12 times "far fewer packages".
The issue is that a lot of D's packages are even less maintained
then Rust, mostly because Rust being newer and attracting more
active crowds. And it does not help when Dmd having constant
deprecating functions and regressions ( what happens WAY too
often ) that break packages.
Its a long term weakness. Depending on 3th party packages is
always dangerous but even more so when the compiler forces people
to use older versions, just to stay safe.
