nsomar/Swiftline

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Swiftline is a Swift framework providing tools for building command line applications, inspired by Ruby's highline. It offers terminal string colorization, interactive prompts (Ask, Choose, Agree), external command execution, environment variable access, and command line argument parsing.

Use cases

• build a command line tool in swift
• add colored output to terminal app
• prompt user for input in cli
• parse command line flags in swift
• run shell commands from swift app
• read environment variables in cli tool

When to choose

• you are writing a Swift command line application and want interactive prompts
• you need ANSI colorized terminal output in Swift
• you want a highline-inspired CLI toolkit for Swift

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured argument parser with subcommands and validation
• you are building GUI or server applications
• you need a library with frequent updates and active maintenance

Facets

framework · maturity maintenance

cli parser developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform swift terminal-colors interactive-prompts command-runner argument-parsing command-line macos linux

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