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…

prodash - is a dashboard for displaying progress of concurrent applications.

plotly for rust - Although it may seem like self-promoting I have to say having a plotting library that's on par with what's available in Python has allowed me to reach for Rust more often.

I'm interested, but the link is broken.

It looks like prodash has moved to GitHub - Byron/prodash: report progress of concurrent applications and display it in various ways

I'll nominate process_control . It makes it easy to terminate a process after a timeout, which is surprisingly difficult to do correctly. Different platforms have different types of identifiers, and some may be recycled for other processes.

beef::Cow Alternative implementation of Cow that's more compact in memory. [image] r/rust - beef::Cow, a more compact std::borrow::Cow 192 votes and 52 comments so far on Reddit

flume - A blazingly fast multi-producer, single-consumer channel.

Alchemy - An experimental GUI framework for Rust, backed by per-platform native widgets.

Alchemy's readme says it's unmaintained.

async-recursion - A procedural attribute macro to automatically transform async functions so that they can run recursively.

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beef::Cow Alternative implementation of Cow that's more compact in memory.

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