facet
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 4, 2025first mention
Sep 30, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“facet (rust) allows tagging fields as sensitive so they won't show up in logs”
“There are libraries like facet[0] that implement general reflection, rather than just a subset of it”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“building a simple version manager for the language”
“We built Facet to solve a real problem”
Threads where it came up
- Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet 1 mention
- Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) 1 mention
- An Incoherent Rust 1 mention
- item 47064084 1 mention
- Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells 1 mention
Also written as Facet. Data: facet.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“Side by side comparison with SERDE https://facet.rs/guide/serde/”
“How does this compare to facet [0][1] by fasterthanlime?”
Language changes could help for sure. There’s a library implementation we can use right now though: https://facet.rs/ Basically a derive macro for reflection. Yeah it’s one (more) trait to derive on all your types but then users can use that to do reflection or pretty printing or diffing or whatever they want.
“facet (rust) allows tagging fields as sensitive so they won't show up in logs”
“There are libraries like facet[0] that implement general reflection, rather than just a subset of it”