This is documentation for the Mingling command-line framework, maintained by Weicao-CatilGrass
## Intro If you're troubled by these issues — 1. Too many subcommands make `main.rs` bloat rapidly; 2. Handler logic mixed with side effects; 3. Logging, auth, and other cross-cutting concerns are hard to inject non-invasively; 4. Maintaining shell completion scripts for multiple platforms wears you out; 5. Global resources everywhere, making testing difficult. … then you've come to the right place. Of course, if you're just curious about "how to write maintainable CLIs in Rust," you've also come to the right place — it'll be fun. ## What is Mingling? > **Mìng Lìng** is the pinyin of the Chinese word **命令**, > which translates to **Command** in English. Mingling is a CLI framework built with Rust. It's free, open-source, and licensed under the permissive MIT / Apache 2.0 license. Mingling's design goals: - **Extensible**: From 3 subcommands to 30, same pattern, no framework swap - **Decoupled**: Parse args once, write business logic once, define output format once. Each independent. - **Type-driven**: Clear, typed data flows through the pipeline — not `Vec