random-rs
This repository is highly inspired by the rand crate. But it plans to give something a bit different. this is meant to give a very minimalistic random generation with as little crates + code as possible. And keep backwards compatibily for as long as possible.
Rust version requirements
random-rs is currently tested against rust 1.13.0. it might also support older compilers, but no promises.
The plan is to keep supporting 1.13 as long as possible, in a case where a bump will be needed it will be accompanied by a major version bump.
Crates
| name | version | purpose | algorithm |
|---|---|---|---|
| random-trait |  |
The main trait, let's you randomly generate generic types | The only part that requires a specific algorithm here is the floating points, using https://mumble.net/~campbell/2014/04/28/uniform-random-float |
| random-fast-rng |  |
Blazing fast non cryptographic random number generator | Uses Pcg32 and seeds it from system time |