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…

safe - a #[safe] attribute to document why an unsafe block is valid and the constraints it must uphold.

fast_paths - Fast shortest path calculations for Rust.

bstr - A string type for Rust that is not required to be valid UTF-8.

winit - a cross-platform window creation library written in pure Rust.

genact : A nonsense activity generator :smiley:

At request of @carols10cents , I suggest that we mention a site Rustexp as CotW for next week.

big_s : Rust's missing String literal

termimad : A library to display rich (Markdown) snippets and texts in a rust terminal application

immense : Meshes with L-Systems

Crate of the Week

nasa42 June 26, 2019, 4:43pm 574

aljabar - Extremely generic linear algebra libary for Rust.

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