kong

I think kong[1] is better than both options although cobra is by far the most popular. Might be worth a look. Definitely won't look as pretty as the parent project though but I prefer kong in terms of the actual code you need to write. [1] https://github.com/alecthomas/kong

Would you care to offer some comments about their shortcomings? I'm a command-line toolings creator and are not familiar with your criticism. I am using clap [1] for my rust projects, and I am using kong [2] for my golang projects. Both offer seemingly endless extensibility in order to handle every imaginable use-case. 1: https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/ 2: https://github.com/alecthomas/kong?tab=readme-ov-file#introd...

Yes, see https://github.com/alecthomas/kong/issues/315. It may be nontrivial to change.

Cobra is certainly popular, but it has many weird edge cases and limitations. It's been a while since I've used it so I can't recall the specifics, but I do remember it being a very poor experience, both as a developer and as a user. I've had a much better experience with https://github.com/alecthomas/kong , and I've heard good things about https://github.com/urfave/cli , so I would recommend those over Cobra.

I use Kong https://github.com/alecthomas/kong I does everything, including too complicated options.

Ah I see a vanity search! The ones that always cause issues :) Its just down to it not being in the index, I shall ensure I add it just for you based on this. Done. That repository https://github.com/alecthomas/kong will get picked up when I kick off the indexing again (sometime next week once all the activity dies down)

Yes, though unlike Rust they use reflection: https://github.com/alecthomas/kong (my own)