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1. nytpu (nytpu@tilde.zone)'s status on Sunday, 26-Dec-2021 12:18:03 UTC nytpu

   Okay Scheme is way too fucky wucky to make actually usable CLI utilities that actually support options and flags so fuck it I'm going for C and also not bothering to work on this project until after Christmas because now I'm too annoyed

   • Aligator (aligator@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Dec-2021 12:17:44 UTC Aligator

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     @tychosoft
     Actually I like the way go does it. And kubectl, docker, ... are all built with it and have a very nice cli.

     But thats only my opinion. In the end every one should use what he/she likes to use :-)

     @nytpu @be

   • tychosoft (tychosoft@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Dec-2021 12:18:02 UTC tychosoft

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     @nytpu I will say, for cli argument parsing, #rust has an extremely simple and compact macro facility with lots of capabilities to describe flags, arguments, sub-commands, etc. #golang has a surprisingly awful "flags" package for this, I feel it is even worse than C getopt, while some third party libraries try to build on top of this misery to try offering something at least a bit more usable. For cli utilities, I would choose rust even if its miserable for some other things.

     @be

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Dec-2021 12:18:17 UTC muesli

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     @tychosoft @aligator @nytpu @be

     The stdlib doesn't need to cover everything. These things exist: https://github.com/alexflint/go-arg

   • tychosoft (tychosoft@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Dec-2021 12:18:20 UTC tychosoft

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     @aligator @nytpu @be I think they use pflags, which is one of the more common extensions to flags. I think the real missed opportunity, though, would have been parsing cli flag directly with a tagged structure (``) instead. That would have been very cool.