Many Rust projects have done cool new stuff. Alacritty is possibly the greatest terminal emulator on the market today. I'm not into cryptocurrencies, but Parity and ZCash are doing cool stuff in that space thanks to Rust.
I'm also the author of Pijul, a much simpler and more scalable (yes, both! why choose?) version control system, and of Sanakirja, an on-disk transactional allocator to write persistent datastructures (like B trees, ropes, radix trees, HNSW…).
I'm also the author of Pijul, a much simpler and more scalable (yes, both! why choose?) version control system, and of Sanakirja, an on-disk transactional allocator to write persistent datastructures (like B trees, ropes, radix trees, HNSW…).