Fancy error reporting with miette

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Fancy error reporting with miette and thiserror.
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[@felixst-gelais6722]

fun fact: "miette" means "crumb" in french! so the lib is comparing error reporting with "following bread crumbs", which i think is pretty neat

[@whoisryosuke]

Great way to add structured error output to a project. I like how clean everything looks implemented.
Maybe a little confusing with miette using `Result`? Maybe `MResult` might be better for them to avoid confusion... 🤔

[@chrisbiscardi]

type aliasing Result to specialize it to the type in the library crate it's being used in is a fairly common approach. serde_json has a Result, reqwest has one too, and even the standard library uses on in std::io::Result.
You can always swap `use miette::Result` instead with a miette::Result in the type signature to be more clear if you want to.

[@Siniverisyys]

I felt like that I didn't have the time or energy to take on miette's fancy error handling, but you explained it so well it seems pretty easy now. Really looking forward to the `wrap_err` feature too. Probably not just helpful to the user - helpful to the developer too ;-)

[@azzamsya]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[@Yotanido]

For fancy parse errors, Ariadne is also very nice

[@chrisbiscardi]

ariadne is listed as inspiration in miette's readme too!

[@katopz]

How can I have smooth line pointer and underline error print out like that?
All I have here is an ascii ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ like this when error. 🤔

[@iippari7]

Did you remember to enable the `fancy` feature? I've never used miette, but that sounds like it could be what's going wrong.

[@underhilloverhill]

could be the terminal/font config

[@magnusmarkling]

I get the smooth underline when running a simple example (with "fancy" enabled) in both Terminal and iTerm2 apps on MacOS. Nothing else required.