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…

overloadable -- "This crate provides you with the capabilities to overload your functions in a similar style to C# or C++, including support for meta attributes, type parameters and constraints, and visibility modifiers."

rstest : rstest use it to implement fixtures and table based tests. Disclaimer... Is a create of mine.

heim : Cross-platform async library for system information fetching

hashcow : A Rust HashMap implementation with copy-on-write keys and values

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https://crates.io/crates/prettytable-rs CLI library for printing tables. It's pretty flexible but easy to use.

async-trait :Type erasure for async trait methods

cargo-cache : tool for inspecting and managing the local cargo download cache

Rustarok - Multiplayer, fast-paced Moba style game.

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