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Had the same feeling browsing through the Haskell package collection. Felt like and almagamation of PhD theses, none of which were maintained after the author got his degree. Every single one a work of art, but most engeneered so badly that you would only use them begrudgingly.

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My impression of Rust crates is that most are developed because a standardized solution to the problem didn't exist or didn't meet the author's needs, so they built their own. Many are well designed, but were never used by enough people to become truly usable or robust before they were abandoned.

It seems like outside certain problem domains, there isn't any effort to pool resources to keep projects alive. The few I did find were forks of forks where each subsequent maintainer stopped responding to proposed changes.

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