​​How often do you use cat utility in your console? Personally I use it very ofter when I need to print a file content. The biggest issue with cat is that the output is monochrome and it is hard to read a code.

Introducing bat.
bat (★ 9,416) - a cat clone with wings. bat supports syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages. Written in Rust.

#cli #terminal #rust

​​Azul - (★ 1,421 on GitHub) is the crossplatform high-performance desktop GUI framework written in Rust.

Azul is a free, functional, immediate mode GUI framework that is built on the Mozilla WebRender rendering engine for rapid development of desktop applications that are written in Rust and use a CSS / DOM model for layout and styling.

It worths to consider this framework next time you start writing your desktop app.

#crossplatform #rust #desktop

diskus - (★ 369) a tiny terminal utility, a minimal, fast alternative to du -sh.

diskus is a very simple program that computes the total size of the current directory. It is a parallelized version of du -sh. On author's 8-core laptop, it is about ten times faster than du with a cold disk cache and more than three times faster with a warm disk cache. Written in Rust.

#cli #terminal #utility #rust