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Rust CLI Troubleshooting: Build Errors and Diagnostics/Emit machine-readable diagnostics

Print messages in JSON form for editor tooling or scripts.

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Section: Compiler diagnostics

Emit machine-readable diagnostics

bash
bash
cargo check --message-format=json
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Useful for custom tooling, scripts, or inspecting structured compiler diagnostics.

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