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'd like to recommend ulid crate for making "Universally Unique Lexicographically Sorted Identifiers."

I'd like to nominate arbitrary, a crate for state-of-the-art fuzzing and property-based testing: [image] GitHub - rust-fuzz/arbitrary: Generating structured data from arbitrary,... Generating structured data from arbitrary, unstructured input. - GitHub - rust-fuzz/arbitrary: Generating …

A promising crate, for those who work with both Rust and TypeScript ts-rs : auto-generate your TypeScript definitions directly from your Rust structs, with many customization options :rocket: Big up to its author and contributors :tada:

bigdecimal or please suggest if you know something better

Thats really useful. Would like to try it out asap.

I would like to nominate Flowistry , which is a static analysis tool for Rust. It's implemented as a VSCode plugin and looks really awesome! [image] GitHub - willcrichton/flowistry: Flowistry is an IDE plugin for Rust that... Flowistry is an IDE plugin for Rust that helps you focus on re…

I'll nominate tap ( crates.io ): This crate provides extension methods on all types that allow transparent, temporary, inspection/mutation (tapping), transformation (piping), or type conversion. These methods make it convenient for you to insert debugging or modification points into an expression wi…

I'd like to nominate miette , a new crate for error handling and reporting that's a mixture of thiserror, anyhow/eyre, and codespan-reporting, all in a nice neat package. It adds stuff like unique error codes (with automatic linking to docs-rs), help messages, footers, multiple messages, and even sni…

I was thinking maybe this tiny crate might be interesting. skip_error allows you to discard a Result::Err and continue to the next iteration of the loop. Usually, we would think short-circuit is a good idea, but in some cases, you might want to continue the processing and just ignore the error. On …

It would be great to hear from someone at Solokeys on their experience building an open source embedded solution for crypto keys, which they built entirely in Rust!

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I would like to nominate Flowistry, which is a static analysis tool for Rust. It's implemented as a VSCode plugin and looks really awesome!

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