wordcrab

wordcrab is a command-line tool for counting lines, words and characters in documents.

It is intended as a cross-platform, modern replacement for wc.

Goals

• MVP version that counts lines, words and characters
• Publish on <crates.io>
• Publish on homebrew
• Publish on other platforms, which?
• Write a blogpost about the process of making this; as a showcase of creating and publishing a tool
• Optional JSON output format
• Concurrency with rayon
• Benchmark & write a blogpost about the process of benchmarking a simple tool
• More options: -l, -w, -c similar to wc
• Proper tests to ensure correctness, especially on tricky strings
• Soft error handling; do not panic if a single file fails to be read of a long list
• Async-std port, when async/await lands in stable?