cargo-limit

Cargo wrapper which limits compiler messages number. Error messages come first.

Installation

cargo install cargo-limit

Usage

Run any of these in your project:

cargo lbench [--limit-messages=N]
cargo lbuild [--limit-messages=N]
cargo lclippy [--limit-messages=N]
cargo lrun [--limit-messages=N]
cargo ltest [--limit-messages=N]

Why?

It's a workaround for this issue. Consider a program:

fn f() -> Result<(), ()> {
    Ok(())
}

fn main() {
    let mut i: u32 = 0;
    i -= 1;
    f();
    println!("Hello world");
}

It's counterproductive to read this kind of compiler noise in attempt to run the program:

$ cargo run
   Compiling hello v0.1.0 (/tmp/hello)
warning: variable `i` is assigned to, but never used
 --> src/main.rs:6:9
  |
6 |     let mut i: u32 = 0;
  |         ^^^^^
  |
  = note: `#[warn(unused_variables)]` on by default
  = note: consider using `_i` instead

warning: value assigned to `i` is never read
 --> src/main.rs:7:5
  |
7 |     i -= 1;
  |     ^
  |
  = note: `#[warn(unused_assignments)]` on by default
  = help: maybe it is overwritten before being read?

warning: unused `std::result::Result` that must be used
 --> src/main.rs:8:5
  |
8 |     f();
  |     ^^^^
  |
  = note: `#[warn(unused_must_use)]` on by default
  = note: this `Result` may be an `Err` variant, which should be handled

error: this arithmetic operation will overflow
 --> src/main.rs:7:5
  |
7 |     i -= 1;
  |     ^^^^^^ attempt to compute `0_u32 - 1_u32` which would overflow
  |
  = note: `#[deny(arithmetic_overflow)]` on by default

error: aborting due to previous error; 3 warnings emitted

error: could not compile `hello`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.

All we want on this development iteration is to focus on this error:

$ cargo lrun
   Compiling hello v0.1.0 (/tmp/hello)
error: this arithmetic operation will overflow
 --> src/main.rs:7:5
  |
7 |     i -= 1;
  |     ^^^^^^ attempt to compute `0_u32 - 1_u32` which would overflow
  |
  = note: `#[deny(arithmetic_overflow)]` on by default

error: could not compile `hello`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.

License

MIT/Apache-2.0