Software Development Resources

softwaredev_res.md

Project Management:

• Gantt Diagrams
• Trello

Software Development Resources

• Handmade Network => Community of people that prefer hand making systems over using premade libraries.
• Graphics Programming Resources => Collection of usefull resources for learning about Graphics Programming.
• BallDontLie => Public API for fetching NBA related data. Usefull for testing stuff.

Debuggers

• gdb => Debugger for gcc executables.
• lldb => Debugger for llvm executables.
• WinDbg Preview => GUI debugger for msvc executables.

Rust Development

• Google's Comprehensive Rust => Google's 4 day course into Rust programming.
• Cheats.rs => Online Cheat Sheet for Rust.

Usefull Crates

General

• tokio => Async executor and framework for building IO bound applications.
• rayon => High-level library for parallel computation.
• serde => Data structure serialization and de-serialization.
• thiserror => Derive macro for custom std::error Errors, easy to use and flexible.
• bitflags => Macro for creating custom bitflags with binary operators supported.
• lazy_static => Macro for declaring lazily evaluated statics.
• phf => Generate Compile Time lookup tables with Perfect Hash Functions.
• cfg_aliases => Create cfg aliases in build.rs.
• geese => Simplistic Event Loop.
• libloading => Allows loading and using of dynamic libraries. Abstracts away the platform specific code.
• hot-lib-reloader => Dev tool to allows hot reloading of libraries to speed up development. Built on top of the libloading crate.

Profiling

• cargo-flamegraph => Flamegraph generator with builtin rust project support (uses perf/dtrace).
• env_logger => Simple and configurable Logger (for binaries).
• log => Logging facade (for libraries).

Terminal Applications

• clap => Command line argument parsing (video).
• ratatui => Framework for building Terminal User Interfaces (uses crossterm by default).
• crossterm => Cross-platform terminal manipulation for text based interfaces.
• confy => Cross-platform configuration manager for TOML/YAML files (needs serde).
• dontenv => Grab configurations from a .env file or the enviroment.

Graphics

• egui => Immediate mode portable GUI Library.
• eframe => Immediate mode GUI Framework (video).
• winit => Cross-platform Window creation and management.
• egui-winit => Bindings for egui and winit interoperation.
• ash => Lightweight Vulkan API wrapper.
• ash-window => Cross-platform raw-window-handle vulkan extension requirements.
• vulkano => Vulkan API wrapper with compile-time shader checking and other safety features.

Databases

• sled => Simple and lightweight embedded transactional database with a BTreeMap like api.
• diesel => Schema Migration tool and ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite databases.4
• sqlx => Toolkit for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite, with compile-time query checking.
• sea-orm => Schema Migration tool and ORM based on SQLx.
• r2d2 => A Generic database Connection Pool.

Database Drivers

• mongodb => Driver for MongoDB databases.
• postgres => Driver for PostgreSQL databases.
• mysql => Driver for MySQL databases.
• sqlite => Driver for SQLite databases.
• surrealdb => Driver for SurrealDB databases.

Other

• serenity => Discord API.