Earning Applause: Delightful CLIs with clap

Speaker: Jack Brown

Room: HC 203

Time: Sat 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Format: Lecture (30 Min + Q&A) — Live Event

Difficulty: Introductory / Some experience required

Track: Development & Dev Tools

Presenter Location: In-person

Experience: several-th time speaking

At: at lfnw

Description:

Do you love Command Line Interfaces — or have you hated at least one? This talk takes a fast, opinionated tour through what makes a CLI delightful (or dreadful), with real examples from the wild. From ergonomics to error messages to the subtle art of not surprising your users, Jack breaks down the ingredients of a great terminal experience.

Then the focus shifts to the Rust ecosystem, showcasing how the clap crate can help you build expressive, user‑friendly, applause‑worthy CLIs. Attendees will see how clap’s features can elevate tooling even if they aren’t heavy Rust users today