I have a crate of the week suggestion! It's colored. It is a terminal output coloring library. You can use it to color your terminal output, or make it bold, or underline it. It's easy to use and works like a charm (Unix only).
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+1 colored. I’ve moved onto other crates for cross platform requirements for some of my crates that previously used it but it’s a great crate to get your feet wet playing with colors, mocking up color palettes and designs, etc.
Also the developer is very nice 
if_chain looks very similar to Elixir's "with".
Do you have a cross platform one to recommend?
I use termcolor. Ftr I don’t recommend it at all for experimenting with colors/and or just beginning. the api is very unfriendly and tedious to use imho, but some of that is due to cross platform printing details (and some not). I have the same macro for writing colors more succinctly at the top of every project that uses it 
Termpainter looks also very cool, and should be cross platform as well, and looks to be interesting compromise between colored and termcolor, but haven’t had chance to experiment with it.
Good luck and have fun!
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noisy_float, mentioned in a comment in a recent (and popular) Reddit thread.
/u/kyrenn reply:
You know what, I was actually unaware of noisy_float, that actually looks like almost exactly what I wanted. It even implements all the important num_traits traits, including the Float trait. I actually wish I knew about this before, thank you for showing me that!
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I'm surprised that so many people don't know cargo outdated yet. Everyone should know this. 
Let's spread the word:
$ cargo outdated
Name Project Compat Latest Kind Platform
---- ------- ------ ------ ---- --------
clap 2.20.0 2.20.5 2.26.0 Normal ---
clap->bitflags 0.7.0 --- 0.9.1 Normal ---
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Ooh, cargo outdated looks nice. I would like to submit another for consideration:
cargo license which shows the licenses of all your dependencies
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I'd like to have both faster and failure as creates of the week. So I'd suggest that maybe one could be published in one week and the other the next week.
How about we just post it as
and leave if to readers to discover these are actually two links to crates?
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Considering how so many websites, whether high-profile or hobbyist, are still hacked by fairly trivial XSS and other injection attacks, I believe the Ammonia HTML sanitizer deserves a bit of spotlight!
They just now announced reaching a stable 1.0.0.
If you use Cargo, you've benefited from it already, as it powers the HTML sanitising behind crates.io.
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I just found out about bark: Dynamically choose between Arc or Rc - #13 by mbrubeck
https://github.com/TyOverby/Bark
Although still in research mode, it looks like a great idea.
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