Colorful.Console VS spectre.console

Compare Colorful.Console vs spectre.console and see what are their differences.

Colorful.Console

Style your .NET console output! (by tomakita)
CLI

spectre.console

A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications. (by spectresystems)
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Colorful.Console spectre.console
1 24
1,266 8,562
- 3.8%
0.0 8.5
almost 3 years ago 1 day ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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Colorful.Console

Posts with mentions or reviews of Colorful.Console. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-19.
  • Cool console apps
    3 projects | /r/csharp | 19 Jan 2022
    No offense but this is two extension methods for string with an argument for a built-in color. Yes it's useful but not really worth developing an entire library around. You might be interested in Colorful.Console.

spectre.console

Posts with mentions or reviews of spectre.console. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Colorful.Console and spectre.console you can also consider the following projects:

Fluent Command Line Parser - A simple, strongly typed .NET C# command line parser library using a fluent easy to use interface

Gui.cs - Cross Platform Terminal UI toolkit for .NET

Console Framework - Cross-platform toolkit for easy development of TUI applications.

Command Line Parser - The best C# command line parser that brings standardized *nix getopt style, for .NET. Includes F# support

CommandLineUtils - Command line parsing and utilities for .NET

Cocona - Micro-framework for .NET console application. Cocona makes it easy and fast to build console applications on .NET.

NFlags - Simple yet powerfull library to made parsing CLI arguments easy. Library also allow to print usage help "out of box".

command-line-api - Command line parsing, invocation, and rendering of terminal output.

EntryPoint - Composable CLI Argument Parser for all modern .Net platforms.

CliFx - Class-first framework for building command-line interfaces