Rust is a language that I’ve been in love with for ages.

It’s also one of the most frustrating languages I’ve ever used. This is because I’ve never written enough rust to actually be good at it.

It also has the best documentation of any language.

Follow this guide using serde.

Essentially:

Add to Cargo.toml‘s [Dependencies] section:

serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
serde_json = "1.0"

Make your struct derive Serialize, and pass it to serde_json::to_string()

#[derive(Serialize)]
struct Thing {
    x: i32
}

fn main() {
    let thing = Thing { a: 1 }
    println!("{}", serde_json::to_string(&thing).unwrap());
}

• Too Many Lists - a learn rust thing that’s really well written and actually fun.
• structopt is a way to do typed command line arguments.
• Rust cookbook.
• Command Line Apps in Rust is a small book that serves as a great intro to CLI apps in rust.
  • Publishing CLI apps.