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…

gfx-hal - Hardware abstraction layer for gfx-rs.

Ropey - an editable text buffer for Rust.

OpenMoonstone - Open source reimplementation of Moonstone: A Hard Day's Knight.

This looks interesting: GitHub - palfrey/serial_test: Allows for the creation of serialised Rust tests

"Easy way to log function outputs, even when they contain the ? operator" log-derive

"A system handler to interact with processes." sysinfo

Zero-cost declarative DOM library: https://github.com/Pauan/rust-dominator

num_format - A Rust crate for producing string-representations of numbers, formatted according to international standards.

Crate of the Week

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"Serde trait objects the way you wish they worked": https://github.com/dtolnay/typetag

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