# Crate evaluation for 2017-07-25: rand

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**Created:** [July 8, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/crate-evaluation-for-2017-07-25-rand/5505 "2017-07-08T03:31:08Z")\
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Welp, here’s a big one. This is scheduled for 7/25 but I suspect that date is going to slip to give this time to percolate. A lot of people have opinions about rand.

I’d urge caution about letting perfect be the enemy of the good - this crate has been around a long time and has suffered from neglect and analysis paralysis. I bet there’s a whole bunch of improvements we can make, even if we don’t solve all the problems.

Let’s see what happens!

@briansmith has previously critiqued this crate [here](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/27703#issuecomment-178143920), and I bet there are some other prior critiques that could be dug up.

cc @nagisa @bhickey @bstrie

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