Radar · Rust · Archive · Week 22 · May 25 – 31, 2026
Crates.io Username Concept Introduced
Worth knowingtooling
- What changed
- The RFC proposes a separate crates.io username from GitHub or other OAuth providers to support multiple OAuth providers and handle username collisions.
- Production impact
- The source does not say.
- Try it
- Read the RFC text at https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/3946-crates-io-username-identity.md.
- Source
- github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3963
Understand it, then run it
Run it now
// This program demonstrates the problem that the new crates.io username concept
// solves: two users with the same GitHub name cannot both use that name on crates.io.
// Since the change is not yet in the current Rust release, we simply illustrate
// the issue with a mock example.
fn main() {
// Two users with the same GitHub username "alice"
let github_user_a = "alice";
let github_user_b = "alice";
// On crates.io before the change, both would collide
if github_user_a == github_user_b {
println!("Collision: both users would have the same crates.io name.");
} else {
println!("No collision.");
}
// After the change, each can choose a distinct crates.io username
let crates_io_username_a = "alice_dev";
let crates_io_username_b = "alice_prod";
if crates_io_username_a != crates_io_username_b {
println!("No collision after username decoupling: {} vs {}", crates_io_username_a, crates_io_username_b);
}
}
What it printed when we ran it on Rust 1.98.1 (edition 2024)
Collision: both users would have the same crates.io name. No collision after username decoupling: alice_dev vs alice_prod
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