Comparison with other 'table' libraries

[danieleades]

There are now a few libraries for pretty-printing tables to the console. It would be really helpful to have a bit of a comparison to allow users (including myself!) to determine which one to go for.

• tabled
• prettytable-rs (possibly unmaintained)
• cli-table
• term-table-rs
• comfy-table
• etc...

[devashishdxt]

I think they're all great. They're just different APIs to do the same thing (except for some extra features). That said, it'll be good to have some comparison of features and API design of these crates. I just don't have enough time to go into details of each one of them and document all the features.

[devashishdxt]

For cli-table, my main focus is to support all the platforms and at the same time limit the dependencies to keep the compile times and crate size low.

Currently, this create only pulls two external dependencies (other than cli-table-derive):

1. termcolor
2. unicode-width

With csv feature enabled, it also pulls csv crate as dependency.

[Nukesor]

@devashishdxt If your ok with it, I would go ahead and mention your project with your short summary in my project's README :)

[devashishdxt]

@devashishdxt If your ok with it, I would go ahead and mention your project with your short summary in my project's README :)

Sure

[devashishdxt]

@Nukesor I'll also do the same with your project summary (and others).

[tgrushka]

I found I can't decide what columns to show/hide in cli-table. That's pretty important.