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…

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.

stork Impossibly fast web search, made for static sites. A strange one to recommend because it isn't actually on crates.io (a different crate called stork is). I think it is a very cool use of rust to make a combined binary tool and wasm js library

explaine.rs : An interactive Rust syntax playground

i nominate iced, a gui library that just had its 0.1 release: https://github.com/hecrj/iced/pull/253 This crate was previously nominated by @nasa42 in September, but didn't make it, so i'm nominating it again.

format A utility crate to make it easier to work with the Formatter

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zicklag March 27, 2020, 10:02pm 744

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

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