My awesome Rust CLI collection

Why Rust (from wg-cli)

  • Solid and quick
  • Easy distribution
    • source and binary
    • cross platform
    • cargo binstall
    • github action
  • Robust configuration
  • Manuals? done.
  • Data in, data out
    • talking to humans
    • talking to machines
  • Flexible logging

Why rust-cli for me?

  • a lot of resource
    • community
      • youtube / discord / zulipchat
  • 80% of my daily cli apps are rust
  • for learning rust

wezterm: Terminal Emulator / Multiplexer

  • cross platforms
  • Multiplex terminal panes, tabs and windows with native mouse and scrollback
    • on local / remotes
  • SSH client with native tabs
  • Connect to serial ports for embedded/Arduino work
  • Ligatures, Color Emoji and font fallback, with true color and dynamic color schemes.
    • https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#fira-code-monospaced-font-with-programming-ligatures
  • Kitty graphics support
  • Sixel graphics support

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/features.html#available-features

others: Alacritty

  • light

zellij: Terminal Multiplexer

pros:

  • multi-layout: floating / stacked https://zellij.dev/news/stacked-panes-swap-layouts/
  • wasm plugin: loading from web https://zellij.dev/news/session-resurrection-ui-components/
  • zellij as IDE: https://zellij.dev/news/config-command-layouts/
  • Multiple Cursors with colored: https://zellij.dev/news/multiplayer-sessions/
  • Sixel Support: https://zellij.dev/news/sixel-search-statusbar/

cons:

  • too many hotkey

fish (SHELL)

  • 3.x C++ + rust https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/master/doc_internal/fish-riir-plan.md

pros:

  • autosuggestion, history default enable
  • Web Interface for configuration: fish_config
  • fish plugins: fisher
    • tide https://github.com/IlanCosman/tide
  • light

cons:

  • not POSIX compliance

others: nushell

starship: cross shell prompt

  • Compatibility First: Use it everywhere!

    • powershell / zsh (Linux / MacOS / BSD / Windows)

  • Customizable

    • Every little detail is customizable to your liking, to make this prompt as minimal or feature-rich as you'd like it to be.

  • Advanced Support (depend shell functions)

    • TransientPrompt
    • pre-prompt and pre-execution

atuin: Sync, search and backup shell history with Atuin

  • global / dir / session scope
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Store extra context
    • working directory
    • exit code, and more!
  • stats
    • atuin stats last friday

helix: Kakoune / Neovim like editor

pros:

  • Vim-like modal editing
  • Multiple selections
  • Built-in language server support
  • Smart, incremental syntax highlighting and code editing via tree-sitter

cons:

  • lack plugins
    • An embeddable and extensible scheme dialect https://github.com/mattwparas/steel
    • wasm (been label won't fix)

comtrya: dotfiles manager

  • Configuration Management for Localhost
  • Run on any operating system
  • Provide a simple YAML interface to, potentially, complex tasks
    • file
    • command
    • package
    • service (not yet)

mydotfiles:

  • with mdbook
  • http://shawn111.github.io/dotfiles

others: rotz

  • focus on files (symlink / hardlink)
  • with install function

cargo binstall / install: app manager?

  • cargo-quickinstall
    • This will install pre-compiled versions of any binaries in the crate. If we don't have a pre-compiled version, it will fallback to cargo install automatically.
  • cargo-binstall
    • Binary installation for rust projects
    • github action

presenterm (md / slide)

  • Define your presentation in a single markdown file.
  • Images and animated gifs on terminals like kitty, iterm2, and wezterm.
  • Customizeable themes including colors, margins, layout (left/center aligned content), footer for every slide, etc. Several built-in themes can give your presentation the look you want without having to define your own.
  • Code highlighting for a wide list of programming languages.
  • Selective/dynamic code highlighting that only highlights portions of code at a time.
  • Column layouts.
  • LaTeX and typst formula rendering.
  • Introduction slide that displays the presentation title and your name.
  • Slide titles.
  • Shell code execution.
  • Export presentations to PDF.
  • Pause portions of your slides.
  • Custom key bindings.
  • Automatically reload your presentation every time it changes for a fast development loop.

mdcat

asciinema related / autocast

  • asciinema
    • 2.x python -> rust
  • agg (asciicast2gif)
  • autocast
    • Automatically generate an asciicast file for use with asciinema.

Note:

Here's how to use Nerd Fonts with agg:

Download one of the patched font sets from https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest , e.g. JetBrainsMono.zip Unzip them into ~/.local/share/fonts (on Linux) or install with system font manager (macOS, Windows)

fc-cache -v -f Specify font family like this:

agg --font-family "JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono" demo.cast demo.gif

tracing console

tui-logger

https://github.com/gin66/tui-logger

  • systemctl-tui