The zip crate is the most commonly used Rust library for manipulating ZIP archives. It supports reading and writing .zip files with different compression methods (store, deflate, bzip2). There are at least three crates for LZMA (de)compression on crates.i...

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mononoke - A Mercurial source control server, specifically designed to support large monorepos. (more…)

In March 2015 I started a small pilot project to ship some Rust code in the Firefox web browser. It was the first Rust code to ship in… (more…)