--- title: The BEST Fully Rust-based Terminal Setup | daily.dev description: Discover a fully Rust-based developer setup that leverages terminal tools for a streamlined workflow. This setup focuses on tools like Warp for terminal... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-fully-rust-based-terminal-setup-flbmxugvs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The BEST Fully Rust-based Terminal Setup | daily.dev og:description: Discover a fully Rust-based developer setup that leverages terminal tools for a streamlined workflow. This setup focuses on tools like Warp for terminal... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-fully-rust-based-terminal-setup-flbmxugvs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fLBmXuGvs.png og:image:alt: The BEST Fully Rust-based Terminal Setup og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The BEST Fully Rust-based Terminal Setup **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 5 min read · 89 upvotes · 7 comments ## Summary Discover a fully Rust-based developer setup that leverages terminal tools for a streamlined workflow. This setup focuses on tools like Warp for terminal emulation, Zellij for terminal multiplexing, Nushell for the shell, Starship for the prompt, and Helix for text editing. Bonus tools include Exa for enhanced directory listing and multiple CLI tools for improved performance and efficiency. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@alexanderpinkerton** · 2 upvotes > Don't forget about bat! ( A better cat ) > > https://github.com/sharkdp/bat **@lcss** · 1 upvotes > Wezterm and zed instead of alacritty and helix, but too early for zed right now, so I'm still using vscode. **@outergod** · 1 upvotes > Exa is unmaintained and has de-facto been superseded by [eza](https://github.com/eza-community/eza), a community-supported fork. **@zataara** · 0 upvotes > There is just no second best option to Warp for rust based terminals. Probably my most used tool as dev. 🙌🏼 **@conduithashtag0l726** · 0 upvotes > Thanks for the tip on alacritty, definitely faster than the native emulator on Windows ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-fully-rust-based-terminal-setup-flbmxugvs) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The BEST Fully Rust-based Terminal Setup","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-fully-rust-based-terminal-setup-flbmxugvs","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-fully-rust-based-terminal-setup-flbmxugvs"},"datePublished":"2024-07-22T17:14:09.436Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:51:12.815Z","description":"Discover a fully Rust-based developer setup that leverages terminal tools for a streamlined workflow. 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