Plurrrr

Fri 20 Aug 2021

Learning Rust by building a CLI tool

Creating small CLI tools is a fun way to get more familiar with a programming language. If you are coming from an infrastructure background, a CLI tool that you can use to send commands to devices/servers might be considered a neat starting point getting into Rust. This is how I started off learning Python, by writing small things that were usefull in a context that I was familiar with. Back then, I used argparse, getpass and netmiko. Starting with Rust is pretty daunting, and I have found that using similar tactic used to learn Python can also be applied when learning Rust.

Source: Learning Rust by building a CLI tool, an article by Said van de Klundert.