mordant VS picocli

Compare mordant vs picocli and see what are their differences.

mordant

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

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. (by remkop)
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mordant picocli
5 29
873 4,673
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9.2 8.6
about 10 hours ago 6 days ago
Kotlin Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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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.

picocli

Posts with mentions or reviews of picocli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-19.

What are some alternatives?

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

Spring Shell 3 - Spring based shell

JCommander - Command line parsing framework for Java

args4j - args4j

Airline - Java annotation-based framework for parsing Git like command line structures

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

JewelCLI - JewelCli uses an annotated interface definition to automatically parse and present command line arguments

kotlinx-cli - Pure Kotlin implementation of a generic CLI parser.

clikt - Multiplatform command line interface parsing for Kotlin

JOpt Simple - Java library for parsing command line options

airline - Java annotation-based framework for parsing Git like command line structures with deep extensibility

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