Is there some Clippy command line option to suppress "field is never read", "unused variable", and "function is never used"? That would be useful when the program isn't finished yet.
I was hoping that "todo!()" would tell Clippy that something isn't finished yet and related unused" messages should be suppressed, But it doesn't do that.
Those are built-in lints (and maybe some Clippy ones too), and you can use something like
RUSTFLAGS="-A unused" cargo check
(Or something finer grained.)
This may only be a partial answer; perhaps someone else can fill in some Clippy-specific advice.
To suppress a clippy lint, use #[allow(clippy::name_of_offending_lint)].
One thing I often do is put
#![cfg(test, allow(dead_code))]
at the top of the library.
I find that handy for avoiding some of the "yeah, I know" when I'm just in a cargo test iteration loop.
(It does require remembering to do a non-test build at some point before saying you're done, though.)
RUSTFLAGS="-A unused" cargo clippy
turned out to do exactly what I wanted. All Clippy errors appear, while several types of "unused" warnings are suppressed. That needs to be documented better, since it's a very useful check for an in-progress project. You may want to check in code that's not called yet, but not check in code with other warnings.
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