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Re:Docli – A declarative language for command-line interface... by skocznymroczny on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @09:42AM (#19442016)
I was going to guess Rust, but turns out it's Go.
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Re:Docli – A declarative language for command-line interface... by leshow on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:22AM (#19443071)
Personally, I like Rust's a bit better:

https://github.com/TeXitoi/structopt

edit: because it's type safe!

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Re:Docli – A declarative language for command-line interface... by 99052882514569 on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @09:45AM (#19442062)
Wouldn't `gocli` be a better name then?
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Re:Docli – A declarative language for command-line interface... by Gipetto on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @10:41AM (#19442696)
The solution here is clearly to write a new language named "do".
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Re:Docli – A declarative language for command-line interface... by bitcoinofficial on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:09AM (#19442945)
Does having a programming language name in a program name make the program better? I don't get it, sorry.
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Re:Docli – A declarative language for command-line interface... by lucideer on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @11:11AM (#19442961)
It certainly makes it a lot easier to understand what it's for...
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Re:Docli – A declarative language for command-line interface... by fwip on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:05PM (#19444981)
I think it's a portmanteau of "doc" and "cli" - because it's a CLI options parser that is generated from documentation.
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