My preferred .NET console stack – An opinionated view on .NET console apps

• runtimelab

  52 1,329 5.1

  This repo is for experimentation and exploring new ideas that may or may not make it into the main dotnet/runtime repo.

  

My understanding is the opposite; now that they're planning to merge Mono and CoreCLR, there is significantly more pressure on the .NET team to have a proper AOT solution.

"Early adopters can experiment with native AOT form factor" is a priority-zero (highest priority) epic for .NET 6: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/248

• command-line-api

  22 3,304 7.8 C#

  Command line parsing, invocation, and rendering of terminal output.

  

For console apps I've been using .NET Foundation's System.CommandLine [1] recently.

It looks like this Spectre.Console you are using is a bit more fancy albeit a lot newer.

1 - https://github.com/dotnet/command-line-api/

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• Cocona

  7 3,013 5.8 C#

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

Cocona [1] is my command line parsing library of choice.

1. https://github.com/mayuki/Cocona

• typer

  86 14,293 6.7 Python

  Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.

Click is great and a feature-rich option. But recommend checking out Typer, which is even simpler if you're already using type annotations. [0]

[0]: https://github.com/tiangolo/typer

• spectre.console

  24 8,562 8.5 C#

  A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.

  

My example may not be the best, but .NET Commandline handling libraries contain significant quote-handline code. I know because I have relied on it.

I'm less familiar with the library that OP is using, but it seems to be here: https://github.com/spectresystems/spectre.console/blob/main/...

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