THIS TOOK ME 3 DAYS. THE C ONE TOOK 3 MONTHS. A Rust port of the original. Minus all the GNU jargon and whatnot (argparse, argv, and argc all pale in straightforwardness in comparison to clap).
Make sure you have the prereqs of the original (cairo + corresponding devel dependencies, the same for Gtk3). Oh, and did I mention you need to use rustup to install the build tools? I recommend nightly, but that's because I use nightly for projects that depend on other crates.
Once this is complete, screw using a build system. Cargo takes care of compiling and deps, so no Makefiles.
To compile AND run, two words and a flag from the root of this directory:
cargo run --release
Cargo interfaces with rustc to compile everything and pulls down deps from crates.io. The above command will do all of this and then produce an optimized binary for your machine. It will then run it.
So, why am I beating a dead horse over a year later? This was to see if I could pull it off better in Rust. For the CLI in Rust, here's what --help will output:
The Christoffen OSWorks, LLC. Assets Application
Re-written from C to Rust. Rust is a great language, cleaner for the job than C in soooo many cases.
USAGE:
assets_application [FLAGS] [SUBCOMMAND]
FLAGS:
-c, --colored-all Generate all colored triangles, and the logo
-C, --colored-no-logo Generate all colored triangles, except for the logo
-h, --help Prints help information
-o, --outlined-all Generate all outlined triangles, and the logo
-O, --outlined-no-logo Generate all outlined triangles, except for the logo
-V, --version Prints version information
SUBCOMMANDS:
colored-all Generate all colored triangles, and the logo
colored-no-logo Generate all colored triangles, except for the logo
help Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
outlined-all Generate all outlined triangles, and the logo
outlined-no-logo Generate all outlined triangles, except for the logo
Now, for the one using argparse in C:
Usage: Assets [OPTION...]
-c, --colored-all Generate all colored triangles, and the logo
-C, --colored-no-logo Generate all colored triangles, except for the
logo
-F, --frankenlogos Generate the Frankenlogos (don't ask; just do)
-o, --outlined-all Generate all outlined triangles, and the logo
-O, --outlined-no-logo Generate all outlined triangles, except for the
logo
-?, --help Give this help list
--usage Give a short usage message
-V, --version Print program version
Report bugs to M. Gage Morgan <gage@christoffen.com>.
The layout of the clap crate is easy, and their docs even show about 14 different ways to do the same things. In contrast, C's argparse is mortifyingly terrible to decipher. Also, it doesn't have Git-style subcommands XD
This is just pre-gaming for when I have to drop down to C++. That will be happening while I am at college, and a majority of any projects I'm satisfied with will probably get pushed over to my personal account, https://github.com/MGageMorgan.
I still don't know everything about programming, and tbh I probably never will. For example, C is a much easier language to write a parser/lexer for via bison and yacc. Those two tools can be difficult to learn in and of themselves, but once you get over them, you can use them and LLVM IR to (possibly) make acompiler that compiles everything down to bytecode.
Consider this a response to our pipe dream: hypox. I don't have time currently to make that a reality.
Due to redundancy, only the colored and outlined logos can be generated at this time. The frankenlogos and failure that was the monitor icon may or may not be implemented at a later date.
Our SIX-YEAR-PLAN involves planning activity dropping from 2018-2022, and having been put back on the rails after 2024. This is to ensure Clark and I have jobs in our qualified fields, and we will continue operating Christoffen as a side project until profits increase enough to allow us to quit our "real jobs" aka life support.