Rust API Guidelines Checklist
  • Naming (crate aligns with Rust naming conventions)
    • [ ] Casing conforms to RFC 430 (C-CASE)
    • [ ] Ad-hoc conversions follow as_, to_, into_ conventions (C-CONV)
    • [ ] Getter names follow Rust convention (C-GETTER)
    • [ ] Methods on collections that produce iterators follow iter, iter_mut, into_iter (C-ITER)
    • [ ] Iterator type names match the methods that produce them (C-ITER-TY)
    • [ ] Feature names are free of placeholder words (C-FEATURE)
    • [ ] Names use a consistent word order (C-WORD-ORDER)
  • Interoperability (crate interacts nicely with other library functionality)
    • [ ] Types eagerly implement common traits (C-COMMON-TRAITS)
      • Copy, Clone, Eq, PartialEq, Ord, PartialOrd, Hash, Debug, Display, Default
    • [ ] Conversions use the standard traits From, AsRef, AsMut (C-CONV-TRAITS)
    • [ ] Collections implement FromIterator and Extend (C-COLLECT)
    • [ ] Data structures implement Serde's Serialize, Deserialize (C-SERDE)
    • [ ] Types are Send and Sync where possible (C-SEND-SYNC)
    • [ ] Error types are meaningful and well-behaved (C-GOOD-ERR)
    • [ ] Binary number types provide Hex, Octal, Binary formatting (C-NUM-FMT)
    • [ ] Generic reader/writer functions take R: Read and W: Write by value (C-RW-VALUE)
  • Macros (crate presents well-behaved macros)
    • [ ] Input syntax is evocative of the output (C-EVOCATIVE)
    • [ ] Macros compose well with attributes (C-MACRO-ATTR)
    • [ ] Item macros work anywhere that items are allowed (C-ANYWHERE)
    • [ ] Item macros support visibility specifiers (C-MACRO-VIS)
    • [ ] Type fragments are flexible (C-MACRO-TY)
  • Documentation (crate is abundantly documented)
    • [ ] Crate level docs are thorough and include examples (C-CRATE-DOC)
    • [ ] All items have a rustdoc example (C-EXAMPLE)
    • [ ] Examples use ?, not try!, not unwrap (C-QUESTION-MARK)
    • [ ] Function docs include error, panic, and safety considerations (C-FAILURE)
    • [ ] Prose contains hyperlinks to relevant things (C-LINK)
    • [ ] Cargo.toml includes all common metadata (C-METADATA)
      • authors, description, license, homepage, documentation, repository, readme, keywords, categories
    • [ ] Crate sets html_root_url attribute "https://docs.rs/CRATE/X.Y.Z" (C-HTML-ROOT)
    • [ ] Release notes document all significant changes (C-RELNOTES)
    • [ ] Rustdoc does not show unhelpful implementation details (C-HIDDEN)
  • Predictability (crate enables legible code that acts how it looks)
    • [ ] Smart pointers do not add inherent methods (C-SMART-PTR)
    • [ ] Conversions live on the most specific type involved (C-CONV-SPECIFIC)
    • [ ] Functions with a clear receiver are methods (C-METHOD)
    • [ ] Functions do not take out-parameters (C-NO-OUT)
    • [ ] Operator overloads are unsurprising (C-OVERLOAD)
    • [ ] Only smart pointers implement Deref and DerefMut (C-DEREF)
    • [ ] Constructors are static, inherent methods (C-CTOR)
  • Flexibility (crate supports diverse real-world use cases)
    • [ ] Functions expose intermediate results to avoid duplicate work (C-INTERMEDIATE)
    • [ ] Caller decides where to copy and place data (C-CALLER-CONTROL)
    • [ ] Functions minimize assumptions about parameters by using generics (C-GENERIC)
    • [ ] Traits are object-safe if they may be useful as a trait object (C-OBJECT)
  • Type safety (crate leverages the type system effectively)
    • [ ] Newtypes provide static distinctions (C-NEWTYPE)
    • [ ] Arguments convey meaning through types, not bool or Option (C-CUSTOM-TYPE)
    • [ ] Types for a set of flags are bitflags, not enums (C-BITFLAG)
    • [ ] Builders enable construction of complex values (C-BUILDER)
  • Dependability (crate is unlikely to do the wrong thing)
  • Debuggability (crate is conducive to easy debugging)
  • Future proofing (crate is free to improve without breaking users' code)
    • [ ] Sealed traits protect against downstream implementations (C-SEALED)
    • [ ] Structs have private fields (C-STRUCT-PRIVATE)
    • [ ] Newtypes encapsulate implementation details (C-NEWTYPE-HIDE)
    • [ ] Data structures do not duplicate derived trait bounds (C-STRUCT-BOUNDS)
  • Necessities (to whom they matter, they really matter)
    • [ ] Public dependencies of a stable crate are stable (C-STABLE)
    • [ ] Crate and its dependencies have a permissive license (C-PERMISSIVE)