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picocli vs Ascii Tree: What are the differences?
picocli: Easily build command line apps with ANSI colors and autocomplete. Library and framework for easily building professional command line applications on the JVM (Java, Groovy, Kotlin, Scala, etc). Usage help with ANSI colors. Autocomplete. Nested subcommands. Annotations and programmatic API. Easy to include as source to avoid adding dependencies. More than just a command line parser; Ascii Tree: A library used to Generate beautiful ascii trees. This library can print arbitrary trees. This requires you to specify how the value of a node, and list of it's children can be extracted from the node object.
picocli and Ascii Tree belong to "Shell Utilities" category of the tech stack.
picocli and Ascii Tree are both open source tools. picocli with 1.49K GitHub stars and 151 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Ascii Tree with 127 GitHub stars and 3 GitHub forks.
Pros of Ascii Tree
Pros of picocli
- Best Java framework for Java CLI that I know1
- Easy to Use1
- Flexible1
- Actively maintained1
- Well documented1
- ANSI colors in usage help1
- Command line auto-completion1
- GraalVM native image integration1