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…

Self-nominating bincheck ( GitHub - kazu11max17/bincheck: Binary hardening checker for ELF and PE — RELRO, NX, PIE, CFG, and more · GitHub ). A CLI tool for checking binary hardening properties on ELF, PE, and Mach-O files. Inspects RELRO, Stack Canary, NX/DEP, PIE/ASLR, CFG, and more. Outputs resu…

flodl - A deep learning framework built on libtorch. Up to 31% faster than PyTorch, heterogeneous multi-GPU DDP, and a Graph computation builder.

The Embassy Executor - Crate of the Year :slight_smile:

I’d like to share my project, Celerity a pure Rust implementation of ZMTP 3.1 built around a sans-IO core. It provides Tokio-based TCP/IPC transport, PUB/SUB and REQ/REP helpers, plus optional CURVE-RS encryption for secure remote links. Designed for developers who want a lightweight Rust-native mes…

I'd like to nominate farben. This is a highly underrated library that has a very nice syntax for printing to the standard output. Fantastic for scripts. cprintln!("[bold red]Error:[/] something went wrong."); cprintln!("[bg:blue fg:white]White on blue!"); Supports defining custom styles. Has mac…

I would like to self-nominate dithr , a buffer-first dithering and halftoning library designed around typed mutable slices. Features include explicit stride-aware image handling, Gray/Rgb/Rgba support across u8/u16/f32, palette/indexed workflows, and optional image adapters. There are implementations…

I'd like to self-nominate vtcode . A Rust-based terminal UI coding agent with BYOK multi-provider support (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, GitHub Copilot, Ollama, and more). Notable additions since then: A2A (Agent2Agent) protocol, Anthropic Messages API compatibility layer, ATIF trajectory for…

Self-nominating clap-config-fallback . Do you ever wish using clap with configuration files didn’t require custom glue code? clap-config-fallback works alongside clap to integrate configuration file support directly into your existing CLI definition. It removes the need for duplicated structs and …

I would like to self nominate corylus . Is a library for embedded distributed objects , inspired by Hazelcast . It runs a small cluster of nodes that share partitioned, replicated objects . The current main object is a DistributedMap<K, V> (a distributed key/value map). Currently a work in progress…

[image] manuelgdlvh: contribute ideas for features that must be added before the first release TLS or other form of packet encryption. Documentation of replication model you're using and its properties (plus that it's not Byzantine-resistant), too.

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handewo June 4, 2026, 6:33pm 1610

I would like to self nominate rustion

Rustion is a lightweight, high-performance SSH bastion/jump host server with a TUI management interface

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