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8 posts tagged with "dependency-management"
The Rust & AI Engineer's Learning Stack: 15 Resources Vetted Like Dependencies
Courses, books, and learning platforms for Rust and AI engineers, evaluated with the same due diligence you'd apply to a production dependency. Currency, stewardship, real cost, and what completing each one actually proves. Verified July 2026.
Slint 1.17: Is Rust Finally Desktop-Ready?
Slint 1.17 ships drag and drop, system tray icons, tooltips, and an embedded MCP server that lets AI assistants drive a running UI. An engineering-leader's evaluation of whether the Rust-native GUI toolkit belongs in your dependency tree, licensing, DSL cost, and exit cost included.
Rust for AI: A Crate Radar on the Agent and Inference Stack
A Rust Crate Radar digest of the crates building the Rust+AI stack — rig, candle, mistral.rs, burn, and swiftide — each scored against the same engineering-leadership rubric, each ending in a one-word verdict.
Radar Digest: An Extended Std Lib, a Pure-Rust SMB Client, and Four More
A Rust Crate Radar digest of six notable releases from the week — stdx, smb2, Ratatui 0.30, kache, OmniScope, and rustion — each scored against the same engineering-leadership rubric and given a one-word verdict.
smb2: The Pure-Rust SMB Client That Outruns macOS's Own
A months-old, pure-Rust SMB2/3 client beats the native macOS file client on a NAS and is tested harder than most funded libraries. Should it be in your stack yet? The Crate Radar verdict: Trial.
Rust Crate Radar Digest #1: Memory-Safe Zstd, a Fast SMB Client, and a Standard Library Rewrite
Five recent Rust crates worth knowing about — a memory-safe Zstandard, a pure-Rust SMB2/3 client that outruns the native macOS client, two Crate-of-the-Week picks, and an ambitious extended standard library — each scored Adopt, Trial, Assess, or Hold through an engineering-leader lens.
Introducing Rust Crate Radar: A New Series on Crates Worth Betting On
A new series that evaluates newly-released and meaningful Rust crates the way an engineering leader actually decides on a dependency — adoption risk, total cost of ownership, and architectural fit, ending in a one-word verdict. First up: Toasty, the Tokio team's new async ORM.
Toasty: Should the Tokio Team's New ORM Enter Your Dependency Tree?
Toasty is a new async ORM from the Tokio team that targets both SQL and DynamoDB from one model definition. An engineering-leader's evaluation of whether it belongs in production yet — and a reusable rubric for judging any new crate.