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…

json-benchmark , which shows the opposite :wink:

Oh, you catched up! :slight_smile:

Still faster than Serde for DOM except for that damn canada.json benchmark ;). I really like how beneficially this whole benchmarking endeavour has been for both libraries thus far.

Since there have been a few exciting low-level networking posts recently (as in the last few months), how about libpnet , the crate that the community is coalescing around for this kind of work?

I'm going to go ahead and put my trace library out there. trace is a syntax extension for tracing the execution of functions in your code. I've found it very useful for debugging complex recursive programs, where I normally would have inserted print statements everywhere for seeing which functions w…

I'd like to announce a project I've been working on for a while: git-series provides a tool for managing patch series with git, tracking the "history of history". git series tracks changes to the patch series over time, including rebases and other non-fast-forwarding changes. git series also trac…

Edit: this project has been renamed to rst (from rsk) I'd like to announce the beta release of my rust project and submit it for crate of the week. rst is a requirements tracking tool made for developers. It is cmd line and text based, integrating easily with the work flows of unit testing and rev…

Nominating RustType ! It's an easy to use, well documented, efficient, pure-rust alternative to libraries like FreeType by @dylanede . We recently adopted it within Conrod as a replacement for FreeType and as the final piece to our pure-rust puzzle. It will make life a lot easier for new users (esp…

[image] mindtree: It's an easy to use, well documented, efficient, pure-rust alternative to libraries like FreeType How does this compete with font-rs ?

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gregwtmtno July 26, 2016, 1:32pm 167

I was recently happy to discover lru_time_cache by maidsafe. It's a useful least recently used cache crate that implements the entry API.

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