For Developers

• Written in Rust
• Terminal UI made with Ratatui
• Powered by Polars
• Documented using mdBook
• Demo GIFs created with vhs

Install Rust

If you don’t have Rust installed, please see the Rust Installation Instructions.

Compiling

Compile Datui using cargo:

cargo build              # Debug build (fast build, large binary, debugging extras)
cargo build --release    # Optimized release build (slow build, small binary, optimized)

• The debug build will be available in the target/debug directory
• The release build will be available in the target/release directory

The release build will take significantly longer to compile than debug. But, the release build is faster and has significantly smaller size.

More Resources

• There is a Setup Script that will help you get your environment ready
• Learn how to run the tests
• Build OS packages (deb, rpm, AUR) with Building Packages
• See the Contributing Guide for more