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Rust by itself is a great language, but what really makes it shine are its many great crates. The ecosystem around rust is one of the best there is, and its documentation is practically unrivalled. So lets look at some of those crates!

actix-web

Actix-web is an amazing web server framework for rust. It's modular, easy to use, intuitive and fast. It's also what lemmy is built on! So when you use this very site, you are using something build with actix!

Bevy

Bevy is a code first game engine for rust, based on the ECS paradigm. It's incredibly refreshing and different from most other engines. It is also unbelievably modular, in fact, just about every part of the engine cam be removed or added as you please! If you are every looking for something simple to play around, try bevy!

Tokio

The backbone of most asynchronous rust. It provides everything needed to build reliable, fast web applications!

Serde

Serde is the go-to library for serialization and deserialisation in rust. Its derive macros make it a breeze to use, and there are countless crates supporting various formats with Serde!

SQLx

SQLx is an amazingly simple sql handling crate. It is both feature rich and yet simple, and just a joy to use!

Reqwest

A neat little crate for sending http(s) requests! It's also used in Lemmy, and just about anywhere else where someone needs to do get some thing from an http(s) endpoint!

And this is far from all! Rust is a lovely language, with an even more amazing ecosystem!

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  • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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    4 days ago

    Getting the gender marker updated at the Social Security Administration office was easy, once I was able to get an appointment. Was complete within 5 minutes, and the staff was nice.

      • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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        4 days ago

        Well, it is right now. The Biden admin effectively instituted self-id for federal identification documents (Passports and Social Security Cards). It's very likely that the Trump admin will quickly halt this policy, so I'd recommend getting it done soon if you can.

    • Yukiko [she/her]M
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      3 days ago

      There's gender markers at Social Security? My card never has had any marker of gender on it.

      • frankfurt_schoolgirl [she/her]
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        3 days ago

        I second that everyone should go get it changed. Some companies will use a federal background check program when they hire you, and if there is a mismatch between social security record and other forms or ID it can be a problem that prevents you from starting work.

      • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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        3 days ago

        Yes, it's in the database. I strongly recommend that you get it changed if other federal IDs are changed as well, since a mismatch between that and other documents might be flagged if the new administration tries to audit those databases to find trans people.