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Rust by itself is a great language, but what really makes it shine are its many great crates. The ecosystem around rust is one of the best there is, and its documentation is practically unrivalled. So lets look at some of those crates!
actix-web
Actix-web is an amazing web server framework for rust. It's modular, easy to use, intuitive and fast. It's also what lemmy is built on! So when you use this very site, you are using something build with actix!
Bevy
Bevy is a code first game engine for rust, based on the ECS paradigm. It's incredibly refreshing and different from most other engines. It is also unbelievably modular, in fact, just about every part of the engine cam be removed or added as you please! If you are every looking for something simple to play around, try bevy!
Tokio
The backbone of most asynchronous rust. It provides everything needed to build reliable, fast web applications!
Serde
Serde is the go-to library for serialization and deserialisation in rust. Its derive macros make it a breeze to use, and there are countless crates supporting various formats with Serde!
SQLx
SQLx is an amazingly simple sql handling crate. It is both feature rich and yet simple, and just a joy to use!
Reqwest
A neat little crate for sending http(s) requests! It's also used in Lemmy, and just about anywhere else where someone needs to do get some thing from an http(s) endpoint!
And this is far from all! Rust is a lovely language, with an even more amazing ecosystem!
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I watched a documentary recently which featured some trans people in Oaxaca, Mexico called Muxe, which is a third gender in Zapotec culture. they mention how many openly Muxe are in one town there, and I did the math which came out to about 3.5% of the town's population. This is around more than double the percentage of trans people in the US, which leads me to believe that there are a lot more trans people than we, or even they, know. Femicide and (trans)misogyny are still rampant down there which is surely a deterrent for people to transition, but still they have a lot more openly trans people where they have a historic precedent that being trans fits into the sociocultural framework.
Makes me wonder how many people would be trans in a fully communist society
Interestingly Samoa has a transfemme third gender called Faʻafafine that is broadly accepted by most Samoans. That also makes up 3.5% of the AMAB population.
I think the anime dirty pair, where like 10% of the population are trans doesn’t sound too wild, if it was far enough in the future and there were examples and good access to gender affirming care.