serde-yaml VS mask

Either https://github.com/chyh1990/yaml-rust or https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml for parsing the YAML config file that markdownlint uses

Serde for most of your input and output formats, with the serde-yaml and csv crates for format backends.

serde_yaml

This is especially useful for data deserialization: Just by implementing the Serialize and Deserialize traits from the serde crate, the (almost) universally used serialization library in the Rust world, we can then serialize and deserialize our types to a lot of data formats: JSON, YAML, TOML, BSON and so on...

FYI, I opened pull requests for serde_json and serde_yaml to explicitly enable indexmap/std, and dtolnay already merged and published them both!

Pair that with Serde for serialization/deserialization (JSON, TOML, YAML, CSV/TSV, XML, URL query strings, etc.), Figment for configuration, and ignore for filesystem traversal with blacklist support, and Rust is a real joy for writing CLI utilities.

I see that are packages like https://github.com/dtolnay/serde-yaml and the parser where serde is built on that give a Yaml representation, but I don't see any way to walk through it in a generic way with a Visitor.

With the understanding we’ve built of the runtime environment, I feel ready to start porting a simple CLI I’ve built in Rust to run in WebAssembly as a service hosted in Hippo. [The project we’ll start with is J2Y(https://github.com/smurawski/j2y/tree/1-getting-started) – which is a little Rust application that converts JSON to YAML or YAML to JSON. We’ll adapt this to, depending on the target, either be a CLI or a WebAssembly binary to run in WAGI. The heavy lifting of the conversion is done by the serde-json and the serde-yaml crates.

Another alternative I'll add is my mask CLI tool. It reads a markdown file and parses it for a command structure. Markdown code blocks are used to define bash/zsh/python/ruby/node scripts all within a single file.

I also build and maintain a Rust-based CLI tool called mask. While this doesn't run in production, it powers everything from my local development workflow to my CI and production deployment flow.

It is a new project that is currently in Alpha stage. You can download from my GitHub account and play with it. It is built using Svelte, Nw.js, and mask script running.

I mentioned elsewhere in this thread that I built a jigsaw puzzle website [1] with a Rust API backend and I launched it last week. It definitely took longer than if I had used Node, but I enjoy working with Rust much more.

Apart from that website, I have also open sourced a Rust CLI task runner [2] which uses markdown files as a command definition format. This is probably the most important tool I've ever written, as I have used it every single day since.

[1]: https://puzzlepanda.com

[2]: https://github.com/jakedeichert/mask

At the top level, there are three things: the server directory, the UI directory, and a maskfile.md file for using mask. Mask is a great tool for running scripts on your project. I use it all the time.