Mike Johnson mikejk8s

A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust

Note: I have moved this list to a proper repository. I'll leave this gist up, but it won't be updated. To submit an idea, open a PR on the repo.

Note that I have not tried all of these personally, and cannot and do not vouch for all of the tools listed here. In most cases, the descriptions here are copied directly from their code repos. Some may have been abandoned. Investigate before installing/using.

The ones I use regularly include: bat, dust, fd, fend, hyperfine, miniserve, ripgrep, just, cargo-audit and cargo-wipe.

atuin: "Magical shell history"
bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

Rust Cheat Sheet

Variables & Mutability

Variables are immutable by default. This makes Rust safer and makes concurrency easier.
Immutable means once a value is bound to that variable, it cannot be changed.
For example:

fn main() {
 let x = 5;

Full desktop shell in WSL2 using WSLg (XWayland)

Note

If you want to use Wayland in WSLg in a simpler setup, you can try the WSLg (Wayland) tutorial.

In this tutorial, we will setup GUI in WSL2. No additional software outside WSL (like VcXsrv or GWSL) is required. You will find this tutorial very similar to the one that replaces Xorg with Xvnc. Indeed, it's pretty much the same tutorial, with some few changes.

The key component we need to install is the desktop metapackage you want (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Budgie, etc), and after that, replace the default Xorg by a script that calls Xwayland instead.

For this setup, I will use Ubuntu 24.04, and install GNOME Desktop. Unfortunately older versions of Ubuntu lack some fundamental things, so we cannot reproduce it in older versions (at least not fully). Since the key components aren't bound to Ubuntu or GNOME, you can use your favorite distro and GUI. Check the [Sample screenshot

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
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	# https://gist.github.com/mfgbhatti/2c2ea5da5d6d7e608d90fd43d4daa4a8

	// Chi-like syntactic sugar layer on top of stdlib http.ServeMux.
	package main

	import (
	"net/http"
	"slices"
	)

	type (
	middleware func(http.Handler) http.Handler