serenity VS goformat

https://github.com/serenity-rs/serenity/: A Discord client, has a file containing formattable endpoint strings that are then passed to a macro to build the endpoint. These endpoints are then obtained by deconstructing an enum with the relevant fields, which is used by the client upstream to make request. I really like this approach, the use of macros and enums feels quite natural.

What would be the best coding lang for this bot, I worked with discord.py in the past but I would like to use Serenity which allows you to make a discord bot with rust.

(https://github.com/serenity-rs/serenity/pull/1899).

With forced functional programming, you may be referring to serenity's builders? For example

```rust

I am one of the core team members at shuttle, and we've released the support for Serenity (a Rust library for the Discord API) a while back and now we have a tutorial ready for anyone willing to give it a go: https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2022/09/14/serentity-discord-bot (creating a simple Discord bot, extending it to a weather forecast bot and deploying it with shuttle, for free).

We've released the support for Serenity (a Rust library for the Discord API) a while back and now we have a tutorial ready for anyone willing to give it a go!

I coded a small discord bot for fun with some friends (using serenityserenity).

For anyone who wants to get a Discord bot up and running (with Rust) - shuttle v.0.5.1 is out, with added Serenity support.

The long term way is to use Discord's interactions system, which involves application commands (slash commands, as well as context menu commands for users and messages), message components (buttons, select menus) and modals. There appears to be some examples provided by your library, including one for slash commands and one for message components, so you could have a look at them to see how to update your bot.

Use this crate : https://docs.rs/serenity/latest/serenity/ / https://github.com/serenity-rs/serenity ?

I’m looking to make a discord bot in using the great serenity framework. The only problem is I don’t have any ideas for what the bot should do. I have decent experience with rust and have used it for small webassembly applications at work. I’ve also used serenity a bit to make a Wordle leaderboard for a server. If you have a great idea and want to work on something together, or just want to learn rust, I am definitely willing to teach a bit as well. I don’t care if the idea has been done before, I want to learn as well!

Likewise, gofmt implementing what you argue for resulted in the creation of goformat. There's a limit to how much you can force people on these things and, more importantly, there are formatting decisions which are more than mere bikeshedding in the eyes of the programmers to the point where they consider it more productive to maintain the formatting by hand if that's what it takes.

I'm the guy who would only run rustfmt once every week or so, when my codebase was in a clean state where I could use git gui to cherry-pick the changes that were in line with my stubborn insistence on my own style and revert the rest. I'm also the guy who would have considered writing goformat if someone else didn't.

Enough people disagree with that for goformat to exist.

Same. I used to insist on cargo +nightly rustfmt and a massive stable of "I don't have a portrait-oriented monitor" rustfmt.toml tweaks which I'd only apply when I have a clean git gui on hand to cherry-pick away unwanted changes, but I've mellowed out and the rustfmt handling of things like assert! has evolved so, now, I just put use_small_heuristics = "Max" in my rustfmt.toml as an analogue to the people who choose goformat over gofmt.

anyways, regardless of what I think, perhaps this library could help? Or at least be a good starting point to build your own: https://github.com/mbenkmann/goformat

You'd prefer that people like me follow the road the Go ecosystem did and write goformat as a replacement for gofmt or just continue to hand-format everything?

Because Go syntax is ridiculously simple, there's not much room for opinion. And even considering that, there is already an alternative gofmt with custom options.