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This has been one of my biggest frustrations while learning Rust. I'm coming from .NET which has an incredible wealth of official System and Microsoft libraries all of which are robust and well documented.
Rust on the other hand has the bare minimum std library, with everything else implemented by the community. There isn't even a std async library. It's insane.
Even the popular community libraries are severely lacking in documentation or inexplicably unmaintained.
Rust has a ton of potential but it desperately needs some broad funding to align the fundamentals to a decent standard.