cligen

c-blake/cligen

Nim library to infer/generate command-line-interfaces / option / argument parsing; Docs at

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Nim
Last commit
29 Aug 2026

What people said

  • “When making small Nim programs for the CLI, makes for a pretty simple API (just 1 line of code) that gets you nice CLI syntax, color auto-generated help messages, etc.”

  • “Most things like "sanely" and "20%" are pretty subjective. To me writing (or really reading well written) Nim is less effort than writing Python or Typescript. Nim is mostly Ada & Lisp ideas packaged in a more terse & flexible surface syntax. Nim also has…”

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