basalt-rs/bedrock

Force ANSI colour output when possible

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#44 opened on Oct 10, 2025

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Description

Many compilers/runtimes will automatically strip colour when the program detects that it's not in a terminal. Often, we can get around this by specifying a flag like --color=always so it will print things like errors in colour. Since our frontend supports ANSI colour codes, we should have the built-in commands attempt to do this.

For example, with rust:

rustc -o solution solution.rs
# becomes
rustc -o solution --color=always solution.rs

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Inspect the source code of built in commands to identify where compiler/linter commands are executed. Look for existing color flags or environment variables. Then add a color=always argument to those commands.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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RustGit
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80