wordcrab

wordcrab is a command-line tool for counting lines, words and characters in documents.

It is intended as a cross-platform, modern replacement for wc.

Installation

• Make sure you have rustup and cargo installed: curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
• cargo install wordcrab
• Upgrading: cargo install wordcrab --force
• Uninstalling: cargo remove wordcrab

TODO: installers in various OS package managers.

Goals

• [x] MVP version that counts lines, words and characters
• [x] Publish on
• [ ] Publish on homebrew
• [ ] Publish on other platforms, which?
• [ ] Write a blogpost about the process of making this; as a showcase of creating and publishing a tool
• [x] Optional JSON output format
• [x] Optional YAML output format
• [x] Optional TOML output format
• [x] Concurrency with rayon
• [ ] Benchmark & write a blogpost about the process of benchmarking a simple tool
• [x] More options: -l, -w, -c similar to wc
• [ ] Testing
  • [x] Tiny initial tests
  • [x] Lots of tests to ensure correctness of various functions
  • [ ] Test output formatting
  • [ ] Test tricky strings
  • [ ] Full code coverage
• [x] Soft error handling; do not panic if a single file fails to be read of a long list
• [ ] Serialization error handling; currently panics. How to type main() and return errors?
• [ ] Async-std port, when async/await lands in stable?
• [ ] CI builds