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Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI

50 points by nateb2022 4 days ago | 12 comments

sunshowers 48 minutes ago

Thanks for posting about this! I'm the main author of nextest, and it represents my best foot forward for how Rust testing should be done. Happy to answer questions though I might be a bit intermittent.

landr0id 25 minutes ago

Big fan of nextest and this is my first time seeing this site. I'll be real I feel a bit ridiculous commenting this but you might want to consider rephrasing this:

>Treat tests as cattle, not pets. Detect and terminate slow tests.

Not sure saying, "hey, treat your tests as an animal you can kill at will" paints the right image.

trollbridge 7 minutes ago

This is from the Kubernetes saying of "treat servers like cattle, not pets". Of course, some people like me keep cattle as pets, but then again I also name my servers, even the virtual or containerised ones.

sunshowers 3 minutes ago

Yeah that was indeed the inspiration (though I'm pretty sure it predates Kubernetes!) but the juxtaposition with "terminate" is unfortunate.

sunshowers 8 minutes ago

That's fair! I'll find a way to rephrase it.

satvikpendem 36 minutes ago

I love nextest, it's been great. This along with bacon catches a lot of issues.

patates 2 hours ago

I somehow tried to make sense of the name as a superlative form of "next". Perhaps next-test would have been fine?

sunshowers 47 minutes ago

That is indeed the pun =)

esafak 3 hours ago

Anybody using this in production?

edit: Thanks, will try!

tekacs 2 hours ago

Yes, for a long while – I believe it's fairly widely used (and it's absolutely excellent!)

DennisL123 42 minutes ago

Yes, been using it for 18’ish months. Works great.

merqurio 2 hours ago

Happy user here !