Oxide and Friends Crates We Love
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Jan 16, 2025 
Rain Paharia and Eliza Weisman, both key members of the Oxide team, dive into the vibrant world of Rust crates. They explore innovative tools like the 'pretty please' crate for code formatting and Miette for error handling. The duo shares their experiences navigating Rust's CLI ecosystem, highlighting crates such as Clap and Lexopt. They also discuss the powerful capabilities of the PetGraph library and the often overlooked Bytes crate for network data handling, blending technical insights with a dash of humor.
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Wifely Discontent
- Bryan Cantrill's wife didn't enjoy the previous two-hour-long "predictions" episode.
- He jokes about taking fractional credit for correct predictions based on the month they come true.
Impactful Books
- Bryan Cantrill's son's English teacher assigned students to ask adults about impactful books.
- Cantrill recommended Soul of a New Machine, Skunk Works, and the Steve Jobs biography.
Pretty Printing
- Use the prettyplease crate for programmatic Rust formatting in code generation.
- It simplifies the process and improves readability.
