How do i learn about new crates?

• rust-argparse

  2 235 1.1 Rust

  The command-line argument parser library for rust

Quite often, especially for more popular crates, the docs are very good and the place to go. argparse though seems to not be one of them. My approach to a crate like that is to go to the repo notice it has not been updated in 4 years then look for a different crate. No docs + no recent contributions is not a crate you really want to be using.

• bpaf

  21 314 9.1 Rust

  Command line parser with applicative interface

For parsing arguments you can use bpaf, a library that can do both derive and combinator approach with a small API surface and small dependencies. Apart from docs.rs there's a bunch of examples here: https://github.com/pacak/bpaf/tree/master/examples

• InfluxDB

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• argparse-benchmarks-rs

  17 35 6.5 Python

  Discontinued Collected benchmarks for arg parsing crates written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/rosetta-rs/argparse-rosetta-rs]

  

Not strictly an answer to your question, but https://github.com/rust-cli/argparse-benchmarks-rs provides a good survey of option parsing crates in Rust.

• getargs

  6 42 0.0 Rust

  A truly zero-cost argument parser for Rust

I'd recommend getargs over argparse, it's also very well documented (but that version is not on crates.io yet)

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