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+{% assign title = "Restarting development: 20,000 new crates in 8 months" %}
+{% include 'templates/incl/header.html' %}
+
+<section class="section">
+  <div class="container">
+  <h1 class="title is-3">{{title}}</h1>
+  <div class="content">
+    <p>
+      Date: 2024.03.27
+    </p>
+    <p>
+        I started to write the <b>Rust Digger</b> on Sat Jun 17 11:08:42 2023 +0300, I made the <a href="/news/first-report">first post</a> about it on 2023.07.22, that was more than 8 months ago.
+        I made some progress with the site after the first report, but in the recent months I have not touched in and I never got to the second post.
+        In that time I worked on a number of other <a href="https://szabgab.com/rust">Rust projects</a> and I posted a lot on the
+        <a href="https://rust.code-maven.com/">Rust Maven</a> site. A month ago I started to record a <a href="https://he.code-maven.com/rust-course">Rust course in Hebrew</a>
+        and recently even recorded a few videos abour Rust in English: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqVgTafRCCU">Strings and memory reallocation in Rust</a> and
+        <a href="https://rust.code-maven.com/extreme-clippy">Extreme Clippy for a new crate</a>.
+    </p>
+    <h2>Add Clippy lints</h2>
+    <p>
+        This last video brought me to add a lot more lints to the Rust Digger project and to start to clean up the code. I've recorded a video about that
+        and I'll publish it soon. Follow <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGsgaBYSAcia5op2Umer-9g">my YouTube channel</a> to get notified when I publish it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+    <h2>Number of crates</h2>
+    There are now 140,209 crates almost 20,000 more than the 120,484 crates last July. So 20,000 new crates in 8 months.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+     <h2>Repository</h2>
+        The percentage of crates without <b>repository</b> field slightly went down from 20.06% to 19.36%, but 
+        there are now 27,148 crates without the <b>repository</b> field compared to 24,173 8 months ago. That means a lot of the new crates 
+        came without the <b>repository</b> entry. Some probably have it in the <b>homepage</b> field. That should be better incorporated in the report,
+        but I think it would be better if these crates had the link to their repository in the <b>repository</b> field.
+        </p>
+    <p>
+    <h2>VCS platforms</h2>
+
+    75.57% of all the crates use GitHub as their repository, 2.55% use the hosted version of <a href="https://gitlab.com/">GitLab</a>. 
+    There are many organizations and individual people who run their own git hosting service. The most popular ones are GitLab,
+    <a href="https://forgejo.org/">Forgejo</a>, <a href="https://about.gitea.com/">Gitea</a>, <a href="https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/">cgit</a>.
+
+    There are now almost a 100 Version control hosts mapped in the Rust Digger project. Most of them also include the platform they use.
+    We don't yet have statistics showing how popular are these platforms, but that should be a simple matter of adding the numbers together.
+
+
+    There are also <a href="/vcs/other-repos">858 crates (0.61%) where we did not categorize the repository yet.
+    Down from 1,821 crates due to the longer list of manually mapped hoss.
+    </p>
+
+    <h2>How can you help?</h2>
+    <p>
+        Many of the crates <a href="/vcs/other-repos">listed as having unrecognized VCS</a> has some incorrect URL as <b>repo</b>.
+        Track down the real repo and send a Pull-Request to fix it or notify the author in some other polite way.
+    </p>
+
+  </div>
+  </div>
+</section>
+
+{% include 'templates/incl/footer.html' %}