dylananthony.com VS rust-github-action-template

I intend to do something similar for other types of projects and languages. If there's a particular comparison you'd like to see, please let me know!

Balancing this is difficult, and I think a conversation about the good and bad of open source can go far beyond this article—so I'm going to leave it there. However, if you'd like a post titled either "Do You Really Need that Dependency?" or "When to Open Source it", let me know.

I know, I know, Rust users never shut up about how great the language is, so I'll try to keep this brief and on topic. Let me know in GitHub if you want a blog post going in depth on any of these points:

This section highlights the worst part of Rust today—it is still a very young programming language, so it's missing a lot of resources available to other languages. After this project, I made a template and a corresponding blog post so that future developers (probably me) will have a much easier time implementing Rust actions. However, this template wasn't available to me yet, so it doesn't count for this experiment.

My little cargo-generate template will hopefully make it easier than ever to write Rust-based GitHub actions. If you try it out and have any suggestions or questions, please open an issue on the repository. If you want to hear more about the motivation for this template—why I'm writing actions in Rust instead of TypeScript, follow me for that upcoming post!