kotlinx-cli VS kscript

In Kotlin, I've been having a great time with kotlinx-cli. No macros involved or magic involved, and it's closer to the author's own ideals.

(And some less good ones https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-cli, despite being official)

Not exactly sure what you're doing, but check out https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-cli which is an official multiplatform solution for parsing incoming options. If you can use it in your case, great! If not, you might at least be inspired by the API (and how extensive even a "simple" idea can get).

For CLI programs in Kotlin, I suggest taking a look at kotlinx-cli or, especially, Clikt, for idiomatic Kotlin code without annotations and such. Of course, after having already written the program, you're most likely not gonna switch that out, but I just wanted to inform you about that.

What about the official command line parser from jetbrains? https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-cli

I think, you can use libs for that. ex: Clikt, kotlinx.cli, picocli

Nice work! Welcome to Kotlin, it’s quickly becoming my favourite language. (Former PHP, current Java dev here). You should check out https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-cli if you want to take it to the next level.

There is https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-cli but you'll have to weigh this against quality and completeness of third party efforts as you've already discovered (in any case you'll probably need multiple libraries).

You probably want to have a look at kscript. It's fixes the primary issue of kotlin script (uncompetitive startup time) by adding a cache of compiled scripts: https://github.com/kscripting/kscript

There is a community project called kscript, which can execute bare bones kotlin script files. The shebang line for that would be #!/usr/bin/env kscript. While that is one thing which can be done with Kotlin script, it is not its main purpose, its main purpose is to have a script definition in some other Kotlin program which can then execute any Kotlin script following that definition at runtime. See the official tutorial for how a Kotlin program would run such a script.

I think you can run `kscript` on windows but i didn't really tried.check out kscript

How exactly did you install sdk man? Wonder if it's configured correctly with the path. kscript had the sdkman install instructions for kotlin which was a dependency in my project

Cheers to kscript!

I am surprised not to see any mention of kscript https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kscript

and the community-led kscript effort.