dtolnay/inventory

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1338 stars · 58 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Rust crate providing typed distributed plugin registration, allowing plugins to be registered into a registry from any source file linked into an application without a central list. It uses macros like collect! and submit! to gather statically registered values at link time.

Use cases

• register command line flags from any source file without a central list
• build a plugin registry that downstream crates can contribute to
• avoid merge conflicts in large-scale codebases with distributed registration
• iterate over all statically registered plugin instances at runtime
• collect implementations or extensions across multiple crates

When to choose

• you need distributed registration of typed values across crates in Rust
• you want to avoid maintaining a central list of plugins or flags
• you are building extensible frameworks or CLI flag systems in Rust

When to avoid

• you need runtime dynamic plugin loading from shared libraries
• your project is not written in Rust
• you need plugins registered conditionally at runtime rather than statically

Facets

library · maturity stable

plugin-system serialization developer-tools programming-languages rust cross-platform distributed-registration static-initialization rust-crate linkage automation

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