Rust

My personal projects are released under the simonhyll- prefix on crates.io. Additionally I am planning on launching a simple cargo index for my own crates so you can get added guarantees that I am the one who developed the crate, to effectively act as a form of namespace. All my crates will be available both on crates.io and on my own registry.

Caution

There is no guarantee on crates.io that just because you find a crate that uses the simonhyll- prefix that it’s actually officially released by me. This is a serious shortcoming in the Rust ecosystem but sadly there hasn’t been much interest to implement a proper namespacing system yet from the maintainers themselves.

As a result, whenever you find a crate you want to use you have to manually validate ownership of the crate. For my projects this can be easily done by checking the mixture of the repository link and the owner user. If the user says simonhyll and the repository links to a simonhyll user owned repository on GitHub it’s definitely owned and maintained by me.