git-cliff VS awesome-rust

git-cliff is a terminal tool that can generate changelog from the Git history by using conventional commits, as well as by using regex-powered parsers and you can even change the changelog template itself by using a configuration file. This tool is a great example of text parsing on the terminal and also uses clap_mangen which generates man pages. Useful for anyone who is serious about looking into making a production-ready terminal tool!

This was primarily aimed to work with git-cliff to generate changelogs for GitHub releases, since tagging contributors would include them as contributors for the release, while also ensuring structured changelogs thanks to git-cliff. As of now, it requires a few extra steps to get it working with git-cliff, but the integration should be much better once the PR for post-processors is merged.

GitHub: https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff Blog: https://git-cliff.org/blog/git-cliff-1.2.0/ Donate: https://donate.orhun.dev

It's the first time I see someone combining gitmoji with conventional commits (I use the later now for all my project, to generate my changelogs automatically with with git-cliff.)

I released my first crate that provides a derive macro to easily obtain a name of a current variant in an enum as a string. I did it mostly to learn about procedural macros and the process of releasing a crate. I then found out there is strum which does this and much more. Nonetheless, I learned a lot and I found couple of nice tools like ```cargo-release and git-cliff.

Yep, something like Git Cliff[1] is great for generating release notes from your commit messages.

And conventional commits are good thing to do regardless of whether you use them for release notes or not. Commit messages should be helpful and immediately obvious, too often its "fixed bug" or "finally figured out foo!", which really tell you nothing - might as well not have a message.

[1] https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff

Combining it with git cliff at least gives me some part of it, though.

It can be tricky to find learning resources that is perfectly tailored to the exact point we’re you’re standing right now. Especially if you already have prior experience.

But since you’re already familiar with programming, perhaps just dive right in…?

I.e. start a new project in Rust. You could do something like Advent of Code, Project Euler or Cryptopals[0]. Or write a simple webserver or whatever you feel like.

Don’t forget that ChatGPT can be quite useful for stuff like this. You can use it like a mentor. Just ask it anything you want to, make it show you examples (and then more examples) and so on. The answers might not be correct all of the time, but at least it can give you an idea of what docs to read next.

If you’re looking for blog posts, an acquaintance of mine has written some: https://priver.dev/tags/rust/

For more links to code/learning resources, see https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust

And if you get stuck you also have the official Rust chats on Zulip/Discord.

HTH. Best of luck!

[0] https://cryptopals.com/

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I did find the official https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ quite useful, it's more than enough to understand the language itself. Command-line programing is not a complicated thing, basically you have the CLI arguments, environment variables, stdin-stdout-sterr and nothing else. A few crates to start with: clap, dotenv, config, log4rs. Just go the crate documentation, there are many good examples there, no other book is neccessary. If you have a specific problem to solve, start to browse crates.io or https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust for possible solutions.

37. Awesome Rust is a great repo with a huge curated list of plenty with Rust code and resources. You can find complete applications in different areas that were built based on Rust.

See also:

https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust

This list is currently far more comprehensive, and it's filled with a lot of high-quality crates.

I found awesome-rust, i like it, will try to add Rsre in it

Besides the official Rust Lang Book I would also recommend checking out the awesome-rust repo:

https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust

https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#system-tools

awesome-rust > Libraries > Command-line https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#command-line

rust-shell-script/rust_cmd_lib cx :

> Common rust command-line macros and utilities, to write shell-script like tasks in a clean, natural and rusty way

Agree, you can see this in https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust vs. https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go

I've noticed however that there has been an uptick in great libraries over the last 2 years, with examples like pola.rs, rust-bert, tokenizers etc. starting to build momentum in the ecosystem.