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| argh | xflags | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 6 | |
| 1,568 | 73 | |
| 2.3% | - | |
| 6.0 | 5.2 | |
| 16 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
argh
Posts with mentions or reviews of argh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-07.
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Crate List - Blessed.rs
https://github.com/google/argh is another minimal library for CLI argument parsing that could be in the list
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Rust Web Framework Comparison
My go-to is argh[1], as it's more lightweight while still providing a nice derive-based API.
[1]: https://github.com/google/argh
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Immediately off the top of your head what is the best Rust CLI library.
It'll panic if the path contains non-UTF8-able bytes.
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fncmd: Command line interface as a function.
Yes clap needs a lot of boilerplate that small programs don't always need, but if you're going to simplify it, I don't think having a bunch of arguments given to the main function is better than having an option struct as in argh. Such an option struct can be given to other functions from the main, can have dedicated consistency check or completion methods, etc.
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Newbie frustration: can we KISS more?
Typically programs are configured through a config object. People like to use things like clap, structopt, or argh for passing in arguments through the CLI https://github.com/google/argh. You can also use the env! macro for embedding values in at compile time, or by going through the std::env::var infrastructure for runtime env vars.
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Darkroom: A VCR contract testing tool built in Rust
Until the argh crate bumps their version I cannot updater the version on crates.io so the install command currently is: cargo install --git https://github.com/mkatychev/darkroom
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Announcement: xflags, fast-to-compile proc macro for cli args
Ahh. The secondary reason I discounted Argh as "unsuitable for purpose" after "Doesn't support using OsString under the hood".
xflags
Posts with mentions or reviews of xflags.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-11.
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Started using Rust for scripting
3) xflags is my preferred way to parse CLI arguments for such scripts. It's not good at all, but, for me, it's the best for the task at the moment.
- Announcement: xflags 3.0.0
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pico-args: An ultra simple CLI arguments parser with 0 dependencies
You might like xflags. It has a similar design philosophy, but is willing to compromise on simplicity a bit to get auto-generated help.
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Announcement: xflags, fast-to-compile proc macro for cli args
See also https://github.com/matklad/xflags/issues/3
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Argument parsers that don't choke on invalid unicode
Added https://github.com/matklad/xflags/blob/master/examples/non-utf8.rs.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing argh and xflags you can also consider the following projects:
clap-rs - A full featured, fast Command Line Argument Parser for Rust
pico-args - An ultra simple CLI arguments parser.
structopt - Parse command line arguments by defining a struct.
getargs - A truly zero-cost argument parser for Rust
hello-actix - Hello, actix!
lexopt - Minimalist pedantic command line parser
argparse-benchmarks-rs - Collected benchmarks for arg parsing crates written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/rosetta-rs/argparse-rosetta-rs]
gumdrop - Rust option parser with custom derive support
rust-prehistory - historical archive of rust pre-publication development
rfcs - RFCs for changes to Rust