What Julia has that Rust desperately needs
15 hours ago
- #Open Source
- #Rust
- #Julia
- The Rust ecosystem faces fragmentation with multiple forks of crates like ffmpeg-next, ffmpeg-the-third, and rffmpeg, leading to confusion.
- Julia's solution to similar problems involves organizing packages into GitHub organizations by domain (e.g., BioJulia for biology, JuliaData for data).
- Benefits of Julia's approach include better accessibility, community support, reduced noise from forks, and enhanced productivity.
- Governance issues may arise, but the advantages of centralized, self-organized efforts are significant.
- The author advocates for Rust to adopt a similar organizational structure to improve its ecosystem.