The growth of command line options, 1979-Present

1. pict

   1 3 1,338 6.1 C++

   Pairwise Independent Combinatorial Tool

   

   > Every option doubles the amount of testing required to exhaustively test the program.

   True, but pairwise-independent combinatorial testing provides almost-exhaustive coverage with non-exponential growth in test cases: https://github.com/microsoft/pict

2. InfluxDB

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3. libxo

   2 17 338 0.0 C

   The libxo library allows an application to generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML output using a common set of function calls. The application decides at run time which output style should be produced.

   

4. oils

   3 272 3,150 9.1 Python

   Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

   

   For completions, as part of the Oil shell design space exploration, @chubot proposed a protocol he called Shellac, see: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Shellac-Protocol-Propos...

5. autocomplete

   4 168 24,964 9.1 TypeScript

   IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

   

   > In our timeline, maybe some file format could be standardized that describes the particular inputs and options a command takes, and e.g. shells would hook into it. Kind of like header files, but distributed either in a community repository or by each of the tools themselves.

   This sort of sounds like what we're working on at Fig. We've defined a declarative standard for specifying the inputs to a CLI tool and have a community repo with all supported tools: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete

   Disclosure: I'm one of the founders

6. dotfiles

   5 7 8 7.1 Shell

   A collection of my dotfiles and other configurations (by aclough)

   

   Yes, there's stuff that you can't get just from parsing the man page too, but it's a huge help. I know it's not done every startup, I have running that as part of my "update everything" script.

   https://github.com/aclough/dotfiles/blob/master/mupdate.sh

7. Stream

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