Crates you should know for Rust Scripting

For now this is just an overview for reference. I’ll write a blog post showing each crate and link them here.

CLI

clap – CLI argument parsing
structopt – clap configuration in a struct
thunder – experimental zero-boilerplate configuration for clap (requires nightly)
exitcode – Standard unix exit codes
chan-signal – handling of OS signals
termion – Low level terminal stuff
linefeed – Interactive input reader
rustyline – readline implementation (seems to be abandoned)
prettytable – output tables