0.1.1 (current) Thoroughness: Medium Understanding: Medium
by fishi0x01 on 2020-03-13
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I am the maintainer of libdb. libdb is an idiomatic rust wrapper for Berkeley DB. It uses unsafe ffi methods from libdb-sys.
The underlying code was forked from Jesse Morgan, who allowed me to modify it and publish it to crates.io. I do not fully understand every aspect of Jesse Morgan's original code and I mainly added new features. That is why I can only rate this with a medium understanding value.
As this crate is an idiomatic wrapper by design it contains a lot of unsafe calls to external ffi methods. However, as I also maintain and trust libdb-sys, I can give this crate an overall positive rating.