concolor VS argparse-rosetta-rs

concolor-clap

I'm a little leery of clap taking on the role of color control. I've found that each library with "auto" support does it slightly differently and that really the best place for that policy is in the caller so there is a consistent experience and so it can adapt to the caller's needs. The WG-CLI has talked about this in the past and concolor family of crates is the result. I'm waiting on feedback for termcolor's use case (non-ANSI) before going 1.0 at which point we will probably make this the backend for clap's auto color support.

It's clap and bpaf nowdays from fully featured ones. https://github.com/rosetta-rs/argparse-rosetta-rs

"not enough arguments" is nice, but what arguments do you need to pass? Use cli option parser such as bpaf or clap to deal with that kind of stuff - they will generate --help for you for example. https://github.com/rosetta-rs/argparse-rosetta-rs

We link to https://github.com/rosetta-rs/argparse-rosetta-rs for a full list. In such a competitive category, I don't think I can really recommend anything that doesn't handle non-utf8 arguments. I am considering adding bpaf to the recommendations in the "full" category, as they recently added this support.

Latest benchmark results Diff of clap v3 to clap v4

There's a nice overview made by /u/epage https://github.com/rosetta-rs/argparse-rosetta-rs/blob/main/docs/tradeoffs.md

We collaborated on the trade-offs document though that doesn't reflect the upcoming release which expands on the parser flexibility.

For parsing people tend to use a parser, some are listed here: https://github.com/rosetta-rs/argparse-rosetta-rs

I've updated argparse-rosetta-rs (formerly argparse-benchmarks-rs).