Cargo-update Alternatives

cargo-update reviews and mentions

• Zellij 0.35.1 brings stacked panes to your terminal
  1 project | /r/rust | 7 Mar 2023

  Personally, I like cargo-update

• Segfault on network request in Alpine
  1 project | /r/rust | 6 Jan 2023
• Rust 1.66
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Dec 2022

  Speaking of cargo remove, see also cargo-edit [0] from which adding and removing originally came, as well as cargo-binstall [1] which installs binaries rather than compiling from source every time. The binaries are updatable with cargo-update [2].

  The latter two can replace a package manager for Rust related utilities, as I often find that those in OS package repositories are often not as up to date as directly from cargo.

  [0] https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit

  [1] https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall

  [2] https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/cargo-update

• `cargo audit` can now scan compiled binaries
  6 projects | /r/rust | 2 Nov 2022

  Would be nice if this worked with cargo-update somehow.

• Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (26/2022)!
  6 projects | /r/rust | 27 Jun 2022

  There is cargo install-update plugin: https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/cargo-update

• go-global-update - the missing command for updating globally installed go executables
  5 projects | /r/golang | 14 Mar 2022

  I didn't find any command or package to update those packages, and given that npm has npm -g update and cargo has cargo install-update, I decided to create go-global-update for go.

• cargo-update - A cargo subcommand for checking and applying updates to installed executables
  2 projects | /r/rust | 22 Feb 2022
• I just realised Monday is now my favourite day of the week, because in my timezone it’s the day new rust-analyzer releases come out!
  2 projects | /r/rust | 7 Nov 2021

  rust-analyzer isn't a rust component (like rust-src, etc. which will update with rustup update), nor a cargo binary (where you could use cargo install-update - https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/cargo-update ).

• Git-cliff: generate changelog files from the Git history
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Sep 2021

  I initially was interested in Rust because of performance + speed + safety, but now I have to say that cargo is a big selling point for me.

  I always used to be scared of compiling software myself because I never seemed to be able to get it to work without endless headaches. Now, I generally find it easy to compile Rust programs if they aren't in my package manager, and with cargo install-update https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/cargo-update I find it easy to keep the software up to date. I have higher confidence that I can get hobbyist Rust software working, and the more Rust software I use, the more familiar I am with the ecosystem and the more comfortable I am.

  If this was written in some obscure language I wasn't familiar with, I'd be less confident I would be able to run it at all, let alone keep it updated, and I may not bother even trying to install it.

• DoorDash: Migrating From Python to Kotlin for Our Backend Services
  13 projects | /r/programming | 5 May 2021

  So while it may take a while for some, it's already absolutely fine for me to compile my projects in a few seconds or a minute. I install all my related tooling via cargo install and update it via cargo install-update -a ( https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/cargo-update ) so I frequently/daily build different Rust projects and I'm quite ok with the compilation times.

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