In RFC : Try-Catch Blocks , someone expressed concern over the discoverability of crates. To improve this situation, I suggested to have a "Crate of the Week" similar to TWIR's "Quote of the Week". To jump-start this, I'm hereby asking you folks for nominations. We seek crates that are useful, unsun…

Hey! I'd like to nominate git-drive a nice CLI tool written by my friend and colleague knutwalker who helped me a lot getting started with Rust :slight_smile: The tool is especially useful for teams who pair a lot and want to use the Co-Authored-By feature to give credit to everyone involved in a c…

I would like to self-nominate my crate num-order . It just reached version 1.0! This crate is used to support numerically consistent ordering and hashing on various fundamental numeric types (including integers, floats, rational and complex numbers, etc.). This enables the comparing between differen…

Self nomination of hifitime , currently in version 3.1 (and no-std for most). It's a high fidelity time management library that guarantees exactly one nanosecond precision for 32,768 years before 01 January 1900 and 32,767 years after that 01 January 1900. It supports several time systems: TAI, UTC,…

self nominating xbuild build/deploy a rust mobile/desktop app in less than 30 min

actually, unnominating crate of the week. the crate will likely be renamed soon

I'd like to self-nominate shuttle a crate that uses traits and annotations to configure your backend deployment - including databases. shuttle lets you deploy Rust apps with a single Cargo command

I'd like to nominate enum_dispatch . enum_dispatch transforms your trait objects into concrete compound types, increasing their method call speed up to 10x. I discovered it on this Reddit thread of crates considered essential.

https://crates.io/crates/darkbird darkbird is an in-memory storage also persist data to disk with non-blocking disk_log

Self-ish nominating rustdoc-types , which contains the types to deserialize the output of rustdoc --output-format json, allowing programatic access to a crates API without having to use all of rustc or rust-analyzer.

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GeorgeHahn April 17, 2022, 4:13am 1057

I'd like to nominate the ttrpc crate, which implements "GRPC for low-memory environments." More information on the ttrpc protocol is available alongside the Go implementation.

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