ALalehander42·Feb 24, 2020
you can try cligen and then argparse https://github.com/iffy/nim-argparse
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nim-argparse
Nim2019–2020
iffy / nim-argparse
nim-argparse
Argument parsing for Nim
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126GitHub stars
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Argument parsing for Nim
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 18 | 2019-11-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-11-25 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 25 | 2019-11-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-12-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2 | 2019-12-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-12-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 9 | 2019-12-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-12-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 16 | 2019-12-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-12-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 23 | 2019-12-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-12-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 30 | 2019-12-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 6 | 2020-01-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 13 | 2020-01-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 20 | 2020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 27 | 2020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-02-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 3 | 2020-02-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-02-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 10 | 2020-02-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-02-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 17 | 2020-02-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 24 | 2020-02-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-03-02 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesI really like the level of that documentation. Very beginner friendly, with a reasonable level of completeness mingled within. A short diversion for basic std::env::args() access, with a quick switch to using clap for decent common behaviour.
Having worked on a project written in nim today the contrast is huge: The documentation isn't great, the stdlib argument parsing is odd, if you use argparse¹ then nim-using devs expect different behaviour, etc.
1. https://github.com/iffy/nim-argparse
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