Silicon is an alternative to Carbon implemented in Rust.

Carbon is a wonderful tool to create a beautiful image of your source code.

But it is a web application, which brings the following disadvantages:

• Cannot work without Internet & browser.
• Doesn't work well with shell. (Although there is carbon-now-cli, its experience is not very good, especially when the network is not so good.)

However, Silicon doesn't have these problem. It's is implemented in Rust and can work without browser & Internet.

Silicon can render your source code within 0.2 second while carbon-now-cli takes several seconds on it.

It's not as beautiful as Carbon...

cargo install silicon

xclip is required on Linux for clipboard support.

Read code from file

silicon main.rs -o main.png 

Read code from clipboard, and copy the result image to clipboard(--to-clipboard is only available on Linux)

silicon --from-clipboard --language rs --to-clipboard

see silicon --help for detail

• MVP
• More themes
• More syntaxes support
• Better font support
• Clipboard support
  • Get code from clipboard
  • Paste the image to clipboard
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • MacOS
• Watermark