Rust Ecosystem Documentation Quality Review: Hits and Misses
2025-05-11
This article provides an in-depth assessment of the documentation quality across numerous popular crates in the Rust ecosystem. It covers various domains, including random number generation, time handling, web frameworks, game engines, and error handling. The author evaluates each crate's documentation based on four quadrants (explanations, how-to guides, tutorials, reference) and highlights excellent examples (like `jiff`'s comprehensive documentation and design rationale) and areas for improvement (incomplete documentation or lack of practical guidance in some crates). This review offers valuable insights for Rust developers and points to directions for improving the Rust ecosystem's documentation.
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