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Porting my 2016 Rust project from getopts to clap, and it's amazing how far the ecosystem has come. clap gives me a nicer help, automatic value validation, and can even generate completions for shells! First screenshot is getopts, second is clap.

Porting some JS to typescript, I've been surprised at how many bugs it's highlighted. It's caught more issues than when I've done the same thing to Python code (adding mypy). I wonder why this is? I have three (complementary) theories:

The future of Yarn: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/6953 Breaking up into libraries to enable reuse, and porting to Typescript!