[Media] I made a Rust CLI game that tests how fast you can guess the language of a code block!

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  1. guess-that-lang

    CLI game to see how fast you can guess the language of a code block!

    Hi! Thanks for trying out my game, sorry you ran into a problem :(. Could you create a github issue and include what you're running the CLI on?

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. starship

    ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

    I use starship. It's incredibly good looking haha

  4. confy

    🛋 Zero-boilerplate configuration management in Rust

    I use confy for persisted data (just the token and high score for now) because I don't know the best practices for where to put those kinds of files, which stores it as TOML.

  5. syntect

    Rust library for syntax highlighting using Sublime Text syntax definitions.

    I love that idea! I think there might be a better way than just hardcoding all the comment types for all the languages, though. I'm using the syntect library which will parse the code based on syntax files, so I opened an issue there to see if they have anything that could help.

  6. crossterm

    Cross platform terminal library rust

    I used crossterm. Really love the simplicity of the API, definitely fit my purposes well.

  7. hub

    A command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub.

    parse_git_branch() { # Speed up opening up a new terminal tab by not # checking `$HOME` ...which can't be a repo anyway # # For the heck of it, micro-optimize this too: # time (repeat 1000000 { [ "$PWD" = "$HOME" ] } ) == ~4.2s # time (repeat 1000000 { [[ "$PWD" == "$HOME" ]] } ) == ~1.4s [[ "$PWD" == "$HOME" ]] && return # Fastest known way to check the current branch name # (Uses `command` to bypass wrappers like https://hub.github.com/) ref="$(command git symbolic-ref --short HEAD 2> /dev/null)" || return echo " [$ref]" }

  8. rust-build.action

    Automate publishing Rust build artifacts for GitHub releases through GitHub Actions

    Thank you so much for playing!! Really makes me happy to hear that <3. I'm aware of the binaries problem- I'm using a github action to create them on release, but it's using rust v1.60 even when I set it to use v1.63, so they haven't been building successfully. I submitted an issue here, feel free to take a look if you get the chance, I could use a second pair of eyes haha.

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. language-guesser

    Nice game, I built something similar my self: https://github.com/ModProg/language-guesser, but I actually think your UI is nicer, like I just droped the code in unhighlighted and everything, and you even have the preview with dots.

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