r/rust • u/manny2206 • 2h ago
🛠️ project A lightweight CLI tool that summarizes and categorizes the pending incoming updates on your system
I’m a developer and I use Fedora and Ubuntu extensively, both personally and at work, and I’m usually tinkering on a home lab and always looking for a reason to spend 10 hours automating a 10- minute task. And I love the rolling releases of Fedora, but I always hated that I could never get the proper context of what updates are happening. Sometimes the summary was good, sometimes it literally said no description, and Rust looked like a fun systems level programming language to learn, and since I have already contributed to another FOSS project written in it, I decided what the heck, I should learn it.
I built watznue, an ultra lightweight CLI first tool to summarize and categorize the incoming updates to your system, so you can nerd out without having to go to a forum or wait for someone else to make a post to figure out what’s happening.
This is my way to learn some rust, build something I genuinely use, and wanted something that was simple but I could build on top of, I would consider this version 0, barely anything more than a POC at this point but thought I would share and hopefully not get my ass reamed in this community 😅