# brson/stdx

The missing batteries of Rust

Repository: https://github.com/brson/stdx
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/stdx
Language: Rust
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-02-10T06:48:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 35/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 6, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4078, "days_push": 569, "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 2083, forks 48 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:11.787080+00:00)

## What it is
stdx is a curated meta-crate collecting the best-known Rust crates ('the missing batteries of Rust'), bundling libraries like serde, regex, rayon, and clap into one dependency. The project is explicitly unmaintained, with rustmax suggested as its successor.

## Use cases
- find the best rust crates for common tasks
- bootstrap a rust project with recommended libraries
- learn which crates to use as a rust beginner
- get serialization, regex, and http in one dependency

## When to choose
- you want a historical snapshot of the recommended Rust ecosystem circa 2017
- you are exploring what crates exist and why they are recommended

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - it is unmaintained and pins 2017-era crate versions
- you need current versions - use rustmax or pick crates individually

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: developer-tools, serialization, logging, error-handling, http-client, cli, date-time, compression, concurrency
- domain: developer-tools, programming-languages
- platform: rust, cross-platform
- tags: rust, curated-crate-list, standard-library-extensions, unmaintained, learning-resource

## Member repositories
- brson/stdx (main) score 35

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.787080+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 2026-08-30T02:55:53.256862+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/brson/stdx (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.787080+00:00, sha 0a7edac23ac8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.