Nine Rules for Elegant Rust Library APIs

Practical Lessons from Porting Bed-Reader, a Bioinformatics Library, from Python to Rust

I love creating software libraries. Two months ago, I started porting one of our Python packages into a Rust crate. This new Rust crate matches the Python package’s ease of use and expressiveness. Along the way, I learned nine rules that can help you create beautiful libraries in Rust. The rules are:

1. Create examples that don’t embarrass you.
2. Accept all kinds of …

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