What are your favorite Rust-based tools and utilities for the CLI?

beeb, 9 months ago

I didn’t see anyone posting wezterm yet wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html

danielquinn, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I see these posts come up a lot actually, and I’m familiar with a lot of the ones you mention. What is like to see is a list of GUI apps that improve productivity in the same way many of your favourites here do.

projectdp, 9 months ago

I haven’t seen a bunch of these posts before, any cross references to aide in tool discovery?

I have some Rusty GUI apps and will consider doing a list when I find more useful ones.

danielquinn, 9 months ago

I’ve mostly seen them on Reddit, back when I was there. To be clear, I like seeing posts like these, but just wish I saw more GUI apps included.

ptman, 9 months ago

I really don’t care about them being in rust. Could we instead focus on something that rust aims to provide? Memory-bug-less? High quality? Performant? Dependency-free binary?

But my:

• ripgrep
• bupstash
• helix

Deebster, 9 months ago

If there's not much in it, I'll go with the rust app because I like to use something I can see myself contributing to if the urge takes me.

I know other languages, but there's no way I'm driving into a random C++ codebase unless I'm confident it's a trivial fix.

saveriobran, 9 months ago

@projectdp wow a great list! I'm especially interested to try cross-platform ones. Thanks!

RunAwayFrog, 9 months ago

From your list, I use bat, exa and rg.

delta (sometimes packaged as git-delta) deserves a mention. I use it with this git configuration:

<span style="color:#323232;">[core]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  # --inspect-raw-lines=false fixes issue where some added lines appear in bold blue without green background
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  # default minus-style is 'normal auto'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  pager = "delta --inspect-raw-lines=false --minus-style='syntax #400000' --plus-style='syntax #004000' --minus-emph-style='normal #a00000' --plus-emph-style='normal #00a000' --line-buffer-size=48 --max-line-distance=0.8"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[interactive]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  diffFilter = "delta --inspect-raw-lines=false --color-only --minus-style='syntax #400000' --plus-style='syntax #004000' --minus-emph-style='normal #a00000' --plus-emph-style='normal #00a000' --line-buffer-size=48 --max-line-distance=0.8"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[delta]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  navigate = true  # use n and N to move between diff sections
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  light = false    # set to true if you're in a terminal w/ a light background color (e.g. the default macOS terminal)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[merge]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  conflictstyle = diff3
</span>

projectdp, 9 months ago

You know what, when I started the list I had delta but when I searched for it I got a different tool that didn’t look right so I removed it, added this one back. Thanks for the added config!

abclop99, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

• https://helix-editor.com/ - text editor
• https://github.com/pvolok/mprocs - manage running multiple commands in parallel
• https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/cargo-update - A cargo subcommand for checking and applying updates to installed executables
• https://gitlab.com/imp/cargo-info.git - Extends cargo to query crates.io registry for crates details

projectdp, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Helix is a good one, I’ve tried it but didn’t feel comfortable switching 100% off vim yet. Added to the list!

zeemyst, 9 months ago

I’ve been happily using Nushell for a long time: github.com/nushell/nushell

abclop99, 9 months ago

It keeps introducing breaking changes so that I have to reset the config and re-add any custom configuration.

zeemyst, 9 months ago

It’s not stable and therefore introduces breaking changes. They clearly mention this on their README.

This project has reached a minimum-viable-product level of quality. Many people use it as their daily driver, but it may be unstable for some commands. Nu’s design is subject to change as it matures.

projectdp, 9 months ago

Had a discussion about this with one of the Nushell contributors, I am conflicted about it. I think the idea of it is somewhat amazing but also somewhat horrendous. I think the concept of this is a step in the right direction in terms of evolving the shell into something better than the traditional shell with concepts from more modern shells, but still has a way to go before adoption is more widespread. My 2c.

Deebster, 9 months ago

I would have posted this it you hadn't.

I have it set as my default shell on my main machine, but it's not going anywhere near my servers! It's definitely the most fun shell I've used, and hopefully some more of the warts can be shaved off as it matures.

deadcatbounce, 9 months ago

Thank-you for this. I have a Google Alert for rust cli but many of these have been missed.

anlumo, 9 months ago

github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell

projectdp, 9 months ago

Hm didn’t know fish was rust based, nice!

ggnoredo, 9 months ago

https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet