I Built a Version Bump Tool in Rust That Is 10,000x Faster Than Its Python Counterparts.

Hello, fellow version-bumping enthusiasts, sleep-deprived Rustaceans, and accidental software archaeologists who just found out that bumpversion is a thing 👋!

So there I was, staring at my terminal at 2AM, trying to release version 0.1.0 of something. I typed bump-my-version patch, pressed Enter, and watched my CPU fan spin up like it was launching a SpaceX rocket. One Second later, one second, it bumped a number. One tiny number. 0.1.0 → 0.1.1.

I sat there in silence for a moment.

Then I did what any rational developer would do: I rewrote it. In Rust. From scratch. With Python and Node.js bindings. And a CLI. And no_std support. And gix for pure-Rust git operations.

The result? bump2version 0.2.0: a version bumper that is legitimately, measurably, embarrassingly ~10,000x faster than the Python CLI it replaces.