Top 21 Argument parsing Open-Source Projects

• clap-rs

  154 13,327 9.5 Rust

  A full featured, fast Command Line Argument Parser for Rust

  

Project mention: Build Your Own curl - Rust | dev.to | 2024-03-23

We will be using the library for Clap - A simple-to-use, efficient, and full-featured library for parsing command line arguments and subcommands.

• picocli

  29 4,720 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.

Project mention: GraalVM for JDK 21 is here | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-19

Picocli allows using a compiler annotation processor to generate classes at compile time instead [0].

[0]: https://github.com/remkop/picocli/blob/main/picocli-codegen/...

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• clikt

  9 2,385 8.9 Kotlin

  Multiplatform command line interface parsing for Kotlin

• go-arg

  6 1,869 5.4 Go

  Struct-based argument parsing in Go

Project mention: Go-Arg: Struct-based argument parsing in Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-27

• argbash

  13 1,364 0.0 M4

  Bash argument parsing code generator

• clipp

  0 1,170 0.0 C++

  easy to use, powerful & expressive command line argument parsing for modern C++ / single header / usage & doc generation

• Lyra

  2 458 4.0 C++

  A simple to use, composable, command line parser for C++ 11 and beyond (by bfgroup)

  

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• typed-argument-parser

  1 453 8.5 Python

  Typed argument parser for Python

• SimpleParsing

  2 375 5.8 Python

  Simple, Elegant, Typed Argument Parsing with argparse

• case-app

  2 293 6.6 Scala

  Type-level & seamless command-line argument parsing for Scala

Project mention: GitHub - stkeky/best-of-scala: 🏆 A ranked list of awesome Scala libraries. Updated weekly. | /r/scala | 2023-07-11

If you mean command-line argument parsing, I come back to https://github.com/alexarchambault/case-app everytime 😃 I haven't found any other library that gets less in your way 90% of the time. Conversion to custom data types is done via implicits, but if you've worked with implicits before it's straight-forward.

• pyrallis

  1 181 0.0 Python

  Pyrallis is a framework for structured configuration parsing from both cmd and files. Simply define your desired configuration structure as a dataclass and let pyrallis do the rest!

• cmdr

  0 131 8.9 Go

  POSIX-compliant command-line UI (CLI) parser and Hierarchical-configuration operations

• duckargs

  1 106 7.9 Python

  Code generation tool, creates python / C programs that parse command line arguments. Say bye to starting each project by reading "argparse" / "geptopt.h" docs.

• yazap

  5 99 8.3 Zig

  🔧 The ultimate Zig library for seamless command line parsing. Effortlessly handles options, subcommands, and custom arguments with ease.

• clerc

  1 98 8.7 TypeScript

  🖖🏻 Clerc: The full-featured cli library.

  

• getargs

  6 42 0.0 Rust

  A truly zero-cost argument parser for Rust

• gommander

  2 25 1.4 Go

  A commander package for creating CLIs in golang

• typed-args

  1 12 4.1 Python

  Parse command line arguments by defining dataclasses

• arguing

  3 9 5.7 Python

  Arguing is a library to do argument parsing without bloating your apps, Third-party free.

• BazPO

  2 6 3.2 C++

  Easy to use program options argument parser

• field

  1 4 10.0 C++

  A subcommand-based argument parsing library. (by jibstack64)

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Argument parsing related posts

• Build Your Own curl - Rust

  2 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2024

• CLI Contexts

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• Go-Arg: Struct-based argument parsing in Go

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023

• Flow Updater JSON Creator

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• Rust 1.72.0

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• I made an alternative --help renderer for clap based applications

  2 projects | /r/rust | 18 Jul 2023

• GitHub - stkeky/best-of-scala: 🏆 A ranked list of awesome Scala libraries. Updated weekly.

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