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# My Rust Project
This is an opinionated template for rust projects using Nix.
## Template features
- CI template for Woodpecker.
- Forgejo commit message templates.
- Linting and formatting.
- Nix-centered development environment.
- Include language servers and all tooling in Nix dev shell.
### Rust Opinions
- [rust-overlay](https://github.com/oxalica/rust-overlay) to manage rust version.
- [nextest](https://nexte.st) for running tests.
- [mold](https://github.com/rui314/mold) for faster linking.
- [rustfmt](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt) for code formatting.
- [clippy](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy) for linting.
## Dev tools by default
- [direnv](https://direnv.net) for automatic dev shell activation.
- [Bacon](https://dystroy.org/bacon/) - automatic and minimal interaction code checker.
- [cargo-machete](https://github.com/bnjbvr/cargo-machete) for removing unused dependencies.
- [hyperfine](https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine) for simple benchmarking.
- [just](https://just.systems/man/en/) for running things and discovery.
- [watchexec](https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec) (and [cargo-watch](https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch)) for watching files and running commands.
### Nix opinions
- [Crane](https://github.com/ipetkov/crane) for incremental artifact builds and nice set of checks.
- [Advisory-db](https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db)
for automatic checking of vulnerabilities of dependencies.
- [nix-filter](https://github.com/numtide/nix-filter) allows filtering out files from the source input for a project.
- [treefmt](https://github.com/numtide/treefmt-nix) supports automatic code formatting of all kinds of source code.