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• getrandom

  8 257 7.0 Rust

  A small cross-platform library for retrieving random data from (operating) system source

  

The crypto source in Go is great, no complaints there. Lints like gosec even recommend using it when generating crypto entropy. Go did a good job here, and I expect Rust will do the same sometime after getrandom reaches 1.0 so the API questions are settled, plus whatever makes sense for the future-proofing the standard library needs.

• cargo-xtask

  26 752 5.4

For simple cli apps for internal use, such as cargo-xtasks, I prefer pico_args due to its fast compile times.

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• gosec

  20 7,527 8.7 Go

  Go security checker

  

The crypto source in Go is great, no complaints there. Lints like gosec even recommend using it when generating crypto entropy. Go did a good job here, and I expect Rust will do the same sometime after getrandom reaches 1.0 so the API questions are settled, plus whatever makes sense for the future-proofing the standard library needs.

• rand

  3 234 2.0 Go

  Fast, high quality alternative to math/rand and golang.org/x/exp/rand (by flyingmutant)

This may very well be a bit offtopic in the rust subreddit, but in case you need fast high quality non-crypto PRNG in Go, I've made one that I believe to be decent. It is unfortunate that math/rand is unlikely to significantly improve due to the backward compatibity and can't be recommended for anything non-trivial.

• go

  2,093 120,346 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

Making a compatibility promise for the default source, without even really looking into the qualities of that source first, meant the default source will be both weak and slow forever. I don't know what the plan is here, the issue hasn't seen activity in 2 years as of the time of writing.

• rand

  29 1,589 8.7 Rust

  A Rust library for random number generation.

  

Making compatibility promises for distributions means they cannot take advantage of potential advancements in the field.

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