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…

https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs Looks interesting...

https://github.com/ritchie46/polars

Not sure if this has been featured before: https://github.com/dtolnay/paste For concatenating idents!

https://github.com/agausmann/declio

https://crates.io/crates/genpdf From the readme: "A user-friendly PDF generator written in pure Rust."

That definitely gives me some ideas for the time crate! The formatting is (unsurprisingly) based on the Unicode standard, bit it is something to look at.

https://github.com/joshua-maros/scones An alternative to derive-builder

https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu 0.1 release was just announced: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu/releases/tag/v0.1

https://github.com/sonos/dinghy

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willi_kappler October 16, 2020, 8:12am 828

https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x
That's from the official unicode consortium!

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