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Minimal Rust Binary Project

When you develop your first binary application using new language, the first issue that you face is how to organize your code so that you can easily extend it in the future. There is a good example in The Book on how to organize your code, parse and process command line arguments by yourself. However, in real world you would use a library to parse command line arguments, which most probably would be the clap library in case of Rust. In this article, I describe my template for creating a CLI (command line interface) application.