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…

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 "

smallbox : Small Box optimization: store small item on the stack and fallback to heap for large item. Faster memory allocation than Box.

Evcxr : A Rust REPL and Rust Jupyter Kernel.

I'm sure this has been nominated before, but just in case, I would like to nominate crossbeam for its large suite of high quality concurrency primitives.

Seems the last mention was back in November 2016 , and crossbeam-channel in December 2017 ... (Fun fact: Discourse warns us of such things when we try to include a previously posted URL) This is a long time, but my personal feeling is still that a crate should have recently done something noteworthy…

I'd like to nominate pest, the elegant parser for CotW. pest is a general purpose parser written in Rust with a focus on accessibility , correctness , and performance . It uses parsing expression grammars (or PEG) as input, which are similar in spirit to regular expressions, but which offer the e…

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gabrielm September 20, 2018, 6:35am 456

The packed_simd crate has been working towards bringing an implementation of portable SIMD, fit for inclusion in the standard library.

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