I've been thinking about this for a while and I think it would be very nice to have an automated way of populating the crates, instead of manually adding each of them.
The AeroRust Website
We can integrate www.areweinspaceyet.org as part of the AeroRust website (e.g. like a menu item) and populate the crates using the crates.io Categories - categories.toml using the same design.
Rust re-write
Instead of the Ruby app we can rewrite the server using Rust.
It will be easier to collect, parse and serve the website and easier to maintain as no Ruby knowledge will be required.
Tasks:
You can see an example binary for collecting the crates' information by categories from crates.io here
โ๏ธ More categories on crates.io
We can ask in the crates.io repository how we can extend the categories that can be used for crates.
This will allow us the collect these crates from the registry and show them on www.areweinspaceyet.org
Currently, these categories exist, which are very insufficient for our needs:
[science]
[science.categories.robotics]
[simulation]
[network-programming]
There should be categories related to Aerospace and simulations related to aerospace, so it might be possible to create categories like:
[aerospace]
[aerospace.categories.space-protocols]
[aerospace.categories.drones]
[aerospace.categories.unmanned-aerial-vehicles]
[aerospace.categories.simulation]
[aerospace.categories.protocols]
- etc.