Jani Nikula<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rust</span></a> newbie questions:</p><p>Do you generally try to find existing crates for everything for maximum reuse? When do you resort to (re)writing routines yourself?</p><p>How do you assess the trustworthiness of a crate? For example, I check if cargo itself depends on it, must be fairly reliable if it does. Better tips?</p><p>For example, in Python I try to stick to the extensive standard library, use pypi dependencies conservatively, and choose them carefully.</p>