mordant vs kopper

mordant

Multiplatform text styling for Kotlin command-line applications (by ajalt)

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kopper

A simple Kotlin option parser (by jimschubert)

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mordant		kopper
	Project
5	Mentions	-
880	Stars	39
-	Growth	-
9.2	Activity	0.0
22 days ago	Latest Commit	over 4 years ago
Kotlin	Language	Kotlin
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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mordant

Posts with mentions or reviews of mordant. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.

Looking for Kotlin Console UI libraries that work in IDE Terminal
5 projects | /r/Kotlin | 21 Mar 2023

I'm currently using Picnic and Mordant which are working nicely. I've tried out Kotter and Text-IO, but they either open a Swing terminal or require you to run a `.bat` script or something.
Guides for Kotlin scripting use case
8 projects | /r/Kotlin | 12 Mar 2023
Why I'm still using Python
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2022

> Many languages have libraries for ANSI color support and pretty printing, but no other language has Rich:
https://github.com/ajalt/mordant
I've created a small library for interactive CLI UI called 'kotlin-inquirer'
9 projects | /r/Kotlin | 6 Feb 2022
A TUI library for Kotlin?
4 projects | /r/Kotlin | 10 Apr 2021

kopper

Posts with mentions or reviews of kopper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mordant and kopper you can also consider the following projects:

clikt - Multiplatform command line interface parsing for Kotlin

kotlin-cli - Kotlin-CLI - command line interface options parser for Kotlin

kotlin-argparser - Easy to use and concise yet powerful and robust command line argument parsing for Kotlin

picocli - Picocli is a modern framework for building powerful, user-friendly, GraalVM-enabled command line apps with ease. It supports colors, autocompletion, subcommands, and more. In 1 source file so apps can include as source & avoid adding a dependency. Written in Java, usable from Groovy, Kotlin, Scala, etc.

kscript - Scripting enhancements for Kotlin

arkenv - Type-safe Kotlin configuration by delegates

JLine - JLine is a Java library for handling console input.