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…

prettier assertions https://crates.io/crates/pretty-assertions looks interesting

@mark-i-m : Yes it's really nice but has already been crate of the week in issue 175: https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2017/03/28/this-week-in-rust-175/

validator : simple validation for Rust structs inspired by marshmallow and Django validators

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cargo-call-stack : Whole program static stack analysis

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safety-guard : Provides a #[safety] attribute to generate a corresponding doc entry and a debug assertion if a constraint is specified.

cargo-instruments for generating Instruments.app trace data on macOS. So cool for performance work!

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kvark March 18, 2019, 3:35pm 503

copyless - library that helps putting values into Box or Vec without memcpy instructions generated by the compiler.

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