kotlinx-cli VS Zircon

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).

I'd recommend you use Zircon, it's THE roguelike rendering library for Kotlin/JVM. The developer is/was active on the discord too. Zircon website

Hope you're not getting down voted because of Kotlin. Even the example on their page is in Java. https://github.com/Hexworks/zircon

There is another improvement that helps with extensibility: now it is possible to create custom tileset loaders. There is already a WIP loader that uses Tiled's format.

One important change that was a blocker for some other things was the reliance on the global Zircon object that also held some state. With #404 completed now there is no global state, and it is also possible to have TileGrid and / or Renderer objects without having an Application that continuously renders content.

But if you specifically want to build a roguelike and you're ok with Java, Zircon looks amazing! I have not tried it but just look at those screenshots!

Hi all! If any of you want to use a Hexworks project for the 7DRL (Zircon or Amethyst) feel free to jump on our Discord Server where you can get help with those and talk with other 7DRLers!