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fiddle		explainshell
	Project
1	Mentions	7
7,314	Stars	12,817
0.4%	Growth	-
9.1	Activity	2.3
8 days ago	Latest Commit	21 days ago
TypeScript	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

fiddle

Posts with mentions or reviews of fiddle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-17.

Repos interesantes de la semana #2
5 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2021

Repo: electron / fiddle

explainshell

Posts with mentions or reviews of explainshell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-11.

Oils 0.17.0 – YSH Is Becoming Real
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2023
looking for typescript linux corpora
1 project | /r/datasets | 10 Apr 2023

https://github.com/idank/explainshell is the github, the "Running Locally" section has a curl command to grab their database dump. And below that is their command for reading in additional man pages.
What are some lesser-known Linux software that are absolutely life changing?
8 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 26 Feb 2023
Is there a utility program that can describe a command line that I’m about to run?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 12 Dec 2022

This works. Ironically a program that explains CLIs doesn't have a CLI.
Enter a command to see help text for each arg
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2022

You can see how the parsing works in the source code (with a specific high level explanation of how this part works), as the site is an open source project.
https://github.com/idank/explainshell#how
Suggestions for a book to help me learn Linux
1 project | /r/Ubuntu | 20 Aug 2021

Source code is available on github: https://github.com/idank/explainshell
Repos interesantes de la semana #2
5 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2021

Repo: idank / explainshell

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fiddle and explainshell you can also consider the following projects:

forge - :electron: A complete tool for building and publishing Electron applications

naming-cheatsheet - Comprehensive language-agnostic guidelines on variables naming. Home of the A/HC/LC pattern.

visx - 🐯 visx | visualization components

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

majsoul-plus - 雀魂Plus——雀魂麻将Majsoul专用浏览器，提供了一些专有特性

fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.

element-desktop - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for desktop.

task-spooler - A scheduler for GPU/CPU tasks

mockoon - Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to run mock APIs locally. No remote deployment, no account required, open source.

eog-modified-date-plugin - GNOME Image Viewer (EOG) Plugin - Sort by Modified Date : Plug-in for Eye of GNOME to navigate images based on modified date.