I literally just published my first crate: candle_embed[1]

It uses Candle under the hood (the crate is more of a user friendly wrapper) and lets you use any model on HF like the new SoTA model from Snowflake[2].

[1] https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/candle_embed [2] https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-l