Building Command Line Interfaces with Kotlin using picoCLI

• swacli

  1 12 0.0 Kotlin

  A simple Star Wars CLI tool built with picocli

The snippet and code used in this article are all directly taken from my swacli demo application. You can find the code on GitHub.

• Graal

  156 19,788 10.0 Java

  GraalVM compiles Java applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀

  

The last thing we can do to help our users enjoy our CLI is to make sure it's blazing fast. This is where native compilation and GraalVM come into play.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• picocli

  29 4,714 8.8 Java

  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.

As a developer, there is a large chance that you use Command Line Interfaces (CLIs) every day. From Git, to kubectl or Maven, they are everywhere. In this article, we'll look into use cases where CLIs are a great idea. We'll also dive into best practises, and discover one of the most used library for CLIs in the JVM world : picoCLI.

• clikt

  9 2,379 8.9 Kotlin

  Multiplatform command line interface parsing for Kotlin

picoCLI is one of the many options available to you to create CLIs on the JVM. Other possibilities include Jakarta Commons CLI or Clikt if you're using Kotlin.

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