README.md

CLI working group

This repo is for coordinating the work of the Rust CLI Working Group, also known as "Rust CLIQuE" (Rust CLI Quality Enhancement).

• Working groups?
• Announcement of this WG
• Chat with us on Zulip

Vision

Let's make this a true statement:

Rust makes writing crossplatform, tested, modern command line applications frictionless while incorporating industry best practices and providing great documentation.

Role of WG-CLI

• Identify gaps between here and the vision
• Mentoring people working to fill the gaps
• Keeping the lights on for core CLI crates
• Venue for CLI authors to collaborate

Focus Areas

• Argument parsing
  • argpaerse-rosetta-rs
• Ease of solving CLI related problems (e.g. filesystem interactions)
• Terminal output styling
• Interactive terminal (prompts, progress bars)
• TUI (full control of terminal)
• Program diagnostics (errors, panics, logging, etc)
• Configuration management
• One-shot testing of CLIs (no interaction)
  • assert_cmd / assert_fs
  • snapbox
  • trycmd
• Testing of time and user dependent CLIs
• Documenting your CLI (e.g. man pages)
• Licensing, packaging, etc
• Documenting how to create CLIs
  • book

While most of these cross-domains with GUIs, web backends, etc, they are also commonly in the critical path a CLI and so in-scope.