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hobofan on Feb 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift: Announcing ArgumentParser

> Very few libraries creates its API so well as to transcend its origins

At least in the argument parsing space, docopt[0] did as well, with official implementations in ~22 languages. It might not always be the best native approach, but the one I will reach for when I have to do argument parsing in a new language.

paulddraper on Feb 28, 2020 [–]

Docopt is indeed popular. By virtue of having it creating its own language, its API is naturally "transcendent." :)

I've used it in Ruby, for which IMO it is the best available choice.

But there is only so much you can express in docopt, and I quickly begin missing the flexibility of a "real" API and argparse.

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