Awesome Rust crates

General purpose awesome Rust crates! For a mega list of even more crates, see Awesome Rust.

• Clap - Command line argument parsing.
• Rstest - Rust test fixtures.
• Rayon - Multithreading library for iterators.
• Dashmap - Concurrent HashMaps.
• Serde - Serialization/Deserialization.
• Thiserror - Easily create custom error types.
• Anyhow - Idiomatic error handling.
• Log and SimpleLogger - Switch those pesky println! macros for proper logging.
• Flate2 - Compression/Decompression library.
• Bindgen - Rust bindings for C and C++.
• Polars - Blazingly fast dataframes. NOTE - Using polars with native Rust can be a bit cumbersome. An alternative is to use the Python bindings.
• Pyo3 - Generate Rust bindings to Python or vice versa.
• Plotly-rs - Rust bindings for the popular Plotly plotting library.
• Linfa - Closely resembles Pythons scikit-learn for Machine Learning applications.
• Statrs - Statistical utilities such as distributions, etc.
• Dioxus - Fullstack framework in Rust that resembles React. Build you own (bioinformatic) web or desktop applications!
• Validify - Struct validation and modification.