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…

ncollide is a 2 and 3-dimensional collision detection library. This is from the wonderful rustsim package.

slice-group-by a crate that provide an efficient way to iterate over groups in str and slices. Useful to create tokenizers.

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

cargo-call-stack : Whole program static stack analysis

luster : An experimental Lua VM implemented in pure Rust.

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

descartes , a crate for Error-tolerant 2D geometry engine that allows for arbitrary error tolerances dealing with both floating-point inaccuracies and much larger user input inaccuracies

Sonic - Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche experimental HTTP/3 implementation

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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.

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