rust-arduino-helpers VS cargo-generate

Third-party library availability is, however, still lagging behind. Luckily enough, Rust supports nearly seamless interaction with the C code! While it is very well possible to link almost any Arduino library to the rust project, I was not able to find any meaningful description of the steps required to do so! My best hit was the rust-arduino-helpers project. Despite that the code quality is, unfortunately, not great (it contains large fragments of commented code and was not updated for a while), it was a great help for me to find the right direction.

cargo-generate: Quickly create Rust projects by using existing Git repositories as templates.

This seems to have a lot of overlap with cargo generate. I'm curious if there are differences you're exploring in philosophy/UX/features/implementation/whatever?

cargo-generate to generate projects according to a template (see cargo-generate)

That must be the connector/payment processor integration template. That's not serde specific, it's cargo-generate.

Tools like yeoman, degit, and cargo generate kept me happy for years. They add basic templating capabilities to the standard git clone but they stop there. You’ll be hard pressed to find tools that go beyond setting up a directory structure.

We would like to simply the next step and use cargo-generate tool to create our Arduino project from a template. Somehow (please, do not ask me why) it requires Perl to compile, so we have to do:

How does backpack compare to [cargo generate](https://github.com/cargo-generate/cargo-generate)? I've been using that one until now, but I haven't used its more advanced features.

Currently, it has two built-in ones for `cargo new` and `cargo init` (--bin and --lib) and there are third-party tools like `cargo generate` which provide for more, but they haven't accepted anything into the main distribution yet.

https://github.com/cargo-generate/cargo-generate