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.

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
• [ ] Concurrency
• [ ] Benchmark & write a blogpost about the process of benchmarking a simple tool
• [ ] More options: -l, -w, -c similar to wc
• [ ] Proper tests to ensure correctness, especially on tricky strings
• [ ] Soft error handling; do not panic if a single file fails to be read of a long list