The todo! macro is useful and it also exposes what happens if our application panics.
thread 'main' panicked at 'not yet implemented', src/main.rs:2:5
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
This could be both more readable and contain more information while also being colored using color_eyre.
The application panicked (crashed).
Message: not yet implemented
Location: src/main.rs:5
Backtrace omitted.
Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets.
We'll use cargo-edit to add the package to our Cargo.toml.
cargo install cargo-edit
cargo add color_eyre
main can return Result, so we'll use color_eyre's Result as our return value and color_eyre::install to install the default panic and error reporting hooks. install returns a Result so we can use ? to handle any errors if necessary.
We haven't shown off everything that color_eyre is capable of. In addition to panic handling, color_eyre allows us to track additional information in the context of our errors and include suggestions by taking advantage of distributed tracing infrastructure.
We'll see more of how this helps as we build out the CLI.