concolor VS termcolor

Compare concolor vs termcolor and see what are their differences.

concolor

Colored Console primitives for Rust CLIs (by rust-cli)

termcolor

Cross platform terminal colors for Rust. (by BurntSushi)
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concolor termcolor
2 5
17 444
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0.0 5.8
10 months ago 4 months ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 The Unlicense
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concolor

Posts with mentions or reviews of concolor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-28.
  • clap 4.0.0, a Rust argument parser, is released!
    13 projects | /r/rust | 28 Sep 2022
    concolor-clap
  • Ouch 0.3.0 released!
    8 projects | /r/rust | 2 Nov 2021
    I'm a little leery of clap taking on the role of color control. I've found that each library with "auto" support does it slightly differently and that really the best place for that policy is in the caller so there is a consistent experience and so it can adapt to the caller's needs. The WG-CLI has talked about this in the past and concolor family of crates is the result. I'm waiting on feedback for termcolor's use case (non-ANSI) before going 1.0 at which point we will probably make this the backend for clap's auto color support.

termcolor

Posts with mentions or reviews of termcolor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.
  • Feedback on project idea
    2 projects | /r/learnrust | 15 Jun 2023
    If you're going after a rice utility, you'll probably want to at least take a look at termcolor
  • Announcing erdtree 3.0.0: A multi-threaded general purpose disk-usage and filesystem utility
    6 projects | /r/rust | 25 May 2023
    I personally regret adding NO_COLOR support to termcolor. See https://github.com/BurntSushi/termcolor/pull/63 and https://github.com/BurntSushi/termcolor/issues/72.
  • What is your favorite terminal colors library?
    5 projects | /r/rust | 27 Dec 2022
    https://github.com/BurntSushi/termcolor, 345, 66k Recommended by https://blessed.rs/crates
  • Ouch 0.3.0 released!
    8 projects | /r/rust | 2 Nov 2021
    I'm a little leery of clap taking on the role of color control. I've found that each library with "auto" support does it slightly differently and that really the best place for that policy is in the caller so there is a consistent experience and so it can adapt to the caller's needs. The WG-CLI has talked about this in the past and concolor family of crates is the result. I'm waiting on feedback for termcolor's use case (non-ANSI) before going 1.0 at which point we will probably make this the backend for clap's auto color support.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing concolor and termcolor you can also consider the following projects:

argfile - Load additional CLI args from file

rust-ansi-term - Rust library for ANSI terminal colours and styles (bold, underline)

clap-port-flag - Easily add address & port flags to CLIs using Clap

erdtree - A modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility that is aware of .gitignore and hidden file rules.

clap-rs - A full featured, fast Command Line Argument Parser for Rust

committed - Nitpicking commit history since beabf39

clap-verbosity-flag - Easily add a --verbose flag to CLIs using Clap

ouch - Painless compression and decompression in the terminal

owo-colors - A zero-allocation no_std-compatible zero-cost way to add color to your Rust terminal

no_color - Website data for no-color.org

supports-color - Detects whether a terminal supports color, and gives details about that support