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, unsung and/or ubercool! @nasa42 Should we find a strong contender, I'd like to put a few lines on it in the next TWIR. If you like I can write them personally.

https://github.com/ruma/ruma I think this is an amazing example of a strongly typed JSON API, which is no small feat considering how flexible JSON is when sent from javascript or python. Ruma accomplishes this with some pretty cool macros, that are also worth checking out, and lots of custom serde impls. ruma-events => macros ruma-client-api => macros

rust_ipify is a small client library for ipify service. Is a Client of API-bindings to retrive information about IP address and the global IP address of the machine. You can find the Crate here

Self-nominating my own crate / side project :slight_smile: : Project homepage: https://www.endbasic.dev/ GitHub repository: https://github.com/endbasic/endbasic/ This is a BASIC interpreter and DOS-like environment fully written in Rust. The goal of the project is to provide a learning environment for coding, but also to offer a "fun" retro-looking computing experience. The cool thing about this crate, which was not intended at first but that Rust made possible "for free", was targeting the web via WASM. Oh, and it now also has a cloud service running on Azure Functions, also written fully in Rust, but I haven't published the code to that...

Self-nominating https://github.com/Plato-solutions/siderunner A library for running selenium .side files.

fltk-rs has just released 1.1.0, and my own experience has been very positive. Recommended!

Shameless self-nomination: sync_file, to concurrently read from files without race conditions.

I'd like to nominate Loadstone, a bare-metal bootloader for embedded systems, specifically systems running on Cortex-M microcontrollers.

Self-nomination: sycamore, a Rust library for making web applications using WebAssembly. Features include components, no VDOM, fine-grained reactivity, Server Side Rendering (SSR), Router, among others... Sycamore is actually pretty fast (it's faster than Svelte) based on js-framework-benchmark. Repo: GitHub - sycamore-rs/sycamore: A reactive library for creating web apps in Rust and WebAssembly Homepage: https://sycamore-rs.netlify.app

Another self-nomination: synth is an open source declarative command line test data generator written in Rust.

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GeorgeHahn July 16, 2021, 4:52am 938

trailofbits/dylint: A tool for running Rust lints from dynamic libraries.

I'm looking into this for writing application-specific lints for a large codebase.

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