Most Versatile Language for CLI Apps?

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  • structopt

    Parse command line arguments by defining a struct.

  • I use structopt, which itself uses clap.

  • cobra

    A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

  • I’ve been writing all my cli apps in go lately. Check out the Cobra library for your cli structure and Viper for configs and env vars. https://github.com/spf13/cobra https://github.com/spf13/viper

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  • viper

    Go configuration with fangs

  • I’ve been writing all my cli apps in go lately. Check out the Cobra library for your cli structure and Viper for configs and env vars. https://github.com/spf13/cobra https://github.com/spf13/viper

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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