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According to Stack Overflow, cargo is the most desired development tool.

toml v0.9 is a near-complete rewrite with dramatic performance improvements, no_std support, and many other improvements.

"Are we GUI yet?"

Winnow is a parser-combinator library for Rust and 0.5 is now out.

With the release of rust 1.70, there was some surprise and frustration that unstable test features now require nightly, like all other unstable features in Rust.

clap v4.2.0 is now out with styling of help descriptions!

anstream is a new take on terminal styling for Rust and will be used in the upcoming clap 4.2 release.

It is finally time to take the wraps off where I disappeared to over the last 6 months.

toml v0.6 is now out with a new parser and renderer, addressing several existing issues and ensuring compliance with the TOML 1.0 compliance tests.

clap v4.1.0 is now out!

We are excited to (pre-) announce clap 4.0!

With excitement and trepidation, I'm announcing the release of clap 3.2.

clap 3.1 is here!

Is adding a function in a patch release a violation of semver?

I figured a great way to close out the year 2021 is to wrap up the long awaited clap 3.0 release!

tl;dr toml_edit is a format preserving TOML crate, allowing users to modify .toml files.

tl;dr As part of improving the learnability of Rust, I propose: The .crs file subset of cargo-script be brought into cargo We support converting .crs to full cargo projects with cargo init --from <script>.crs We collaborate on an ergonomics-focused standa…

Recently, there was an announcement for pushgen, a port of C++ transrangers to Rust with a follow up post from the author of transrangers.

liquid v0.20 resolves several planned breaking changes we've been holding off on.

With people reflecting on Rust in 2019 and what they want to see in 2020, error handling has come up again: Rust in 2020, one more thing Thoughts on Error Handling in Rust Error Handling Survey

tl;dr Cache your code-gen results with the codegenrs crate.

I've been involved in the Rust community for about a year and a half now.

I went to with a coworker to PyCon this year (videos).

I recently got the chance to redo the error handling in two different crates I help maintain.

Context: Call for Community Posts and other posts

I'll post relevant items from my old blog.

My personal experience treating nystagmus

Trip/equipment report for the Long Star Hiking Trail

Trip/equipment report for Kings Peak in Utah