# Silicon
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Silicon is an alternative to [Carbon](https://github.com/dawnlabs/carbon) implemented in Rust.
It can render your source code into a beautiful image.
## Why Silicon
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 problems.
It's is implemented in Rust and can work without browser & Internet.
Silicon can render your source code on the fly while _carbon-now-cli_ takes several seconds on it.
## Disadvantages
It's not as beautiful as Carbon...
## Install
### Cargo
```bash
cargo install silicon
```
NOTE: harfbuzz feature is enabled by default. If you are using Windows, I suggest you disable it to get it build easier.
### AUR
Silicon is available in the official repository:
```bash
pacman -S silicon
```
### Homebrew
You can install Silicon using [Homebrew](https://brew.sh):
```bash
brew install silicon
```
## Dependencies
### Ubuntu
```bash
sudo apt install expat
sudo apt install libxml2-dev
sudo apt install pkg-config libasound2-dev libssl-dev cmake libfreetype6-dev libexpat1-dev libxcb-composite0-dev libharfbuzz-dev libfontconfig1-dev g++
```
### Fedora
```bash
sudo dnf install \
cmake \
expat-devel fontconfig-devel libxcb-devel \
freetype-devel libxml2-devel \
harfbuzz
```
### Arch Linux
```bash
sudo pacman -S --needed pkgconf freetype2 fontconfig libxcb xclip harfbuzz
```
## Examples
Read code from file
```bash
silicon main.rs -o main.png
```
Read code from clipboard, and copy the result image to clipboard
```bash
silicon --from-clipboard -l rs --to-clipboard
```
Specify a fallback font list and their size
```bash
silicon -o main.png -l bash -f 'Hack; SimSun=31; code2000' <