# nicoburns/blessed-rs

A community guide to the Rust ecosystem

Repository: https://github.com/nicoburns/blessed-rs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/blessed-rs
Homepage: https://blessed.rs
Language: Rust
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-03T17:00:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1634, "days_push": 30, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1597, forks 111 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:09.305703+00:00)

## What it is
Blessed.rs is a community-maintained, hand-curated guide to the Rust crate ecosystem, recommending crates for common use cases like HTTP, JSON, datetime, async, and CLI building. It is implemented as a Rust web application serving a browsable crate directory at blessed.rs.

## Use cases
- find the recommended crate for http requests in rust
- which  serialization crate should i use in rust
- rust datetime library comparison chrono vs time vs jiff
- discover popular rust crates for cli argument parsing
- guide to the rust ecosystem for beginners
- recommended crates for async and websockets in rust

## When to choose
- you are unsure which rust crate to pick for a common task
- you want a curated, opinionated alternative to browsing crates.io or lib.rs
- you are new to rust and want to learn the de facto standard crates

## When to avoid
- you need an official or exhaustive crate index
- you need detailed documentation for a specific crate rather than recommendations
- you need a machine-readable package registry or API

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, programming-languages, tutorials
- platform: rust
- tags: rust-ecosystem, crate-directory, curated-guide, crates-io, community-resource, web-server

## Member repositories
- nicoburns/blessed-rs (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.305703+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:54:00.445513+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nicoburns/blessed-rs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.305703+00:00, sha c6b3ab31cb78)
  - homepage: https://blessed.rs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:24:43.510131+00:00, sha 29836c52cba2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.