spectre.console VS ReadLine

Compare spectre.console vs ReadLine and see what are their differences.

spectre.console

A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications. (by spectresystems)

ReadLine

A Pure C# GNU-Readline like library for .NET/.NET Core (by tonerdo)
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spectre.console ReadLine
24 -
8,562 796
3.8% -
8.5 0.0
4 days ago over 2 years ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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spectre.console

Posts with mentions or reviews of spectre.console. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

ReadLine

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning ReadLine yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spectre.console and ReadLine you can also consider the following projects:

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Cocona - Micro-framework for .NET console application. Cocona makes it easy and fast to build console applications on .NET.

UnionArgParser - A declarative CLI argument parser for F#

Console Framework - Cross-platform toolkit for easy development of TUI applications.

Fluent Command Line Parser - A simple, strongly typed .NET C# command line parser library using a fluent easy to use interface

command-line-api - Command line parsing, invocation, and rendering of terminal output.

Power Args - The ultimate .NET Standard command line argument parser

CliFx - Class-first framework for building command-line interfaces

Docopt - Port of docopt to .net