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…

slotmap : "A Rust library providing two containers with persistent unique keys to access stored values". Good for game entities or graph nodes.

froggy : "Froggy is a prototype for Component Graph System". Also good for game entities.

generational-arena : "A safe arena allocator that allows deletion without suffering from the ABA problem by using generational indices." Again this is good for game entities or graph nodes.

spin-sleep : providing a very accurate sleep() function as well as a LoopHelper which is really handy. The author puts quite some effort into measuring a lot on different platforms ( see here ).

Crate of the week suggestion: https://crates.io/crates/cargo-lichking . Attempts to summarize licenses of crates you depend on.

failsafe (reddit thread) - Wrap function in a supervisor that prohibits execution (returns error early) for some time in case of consequtive failures of the wrapped function.

I was just told about cargo-src .

mdproof : "A standalone markdown to PDF converter"

mtpng : "A parallelized PNG encoder in Rust "

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yoshuawuyts September 1, 2018, 10:48am 450

cgroups: "Native Rust library for managing control groups under Linux".

I'm nominating this because it unlocks the ability to start writing lightweight Docker-like libraries in Rust for Linux!

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