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Charm vs Try

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Overview

Charm
Charm
Stacks4
Followers12
Votes0
GitHub Stars2.5K
Forks82
Try
Try
Stacks88
Followers5
Votes0
GitHub Stars5.4K
Forks76

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Detailed Comparison

Charm
Charm
Try
Try

It is a set of tools that makes adding a backend to your terminal-based applications fun and easy. Quickly build modern CLI applications without worrying about user accounts, data storage and encryption.

It lets you run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system. It uses Linux's namespaces (via unshare) and the overlayfs union filesystem.

Charm KV: an embeddable, encrypted, cloud-synced key-value store built on BadgerDB; Charm FS: a Go fs.FS compatible cloud-based user filesystem; Charm Crypt: end-to-end encryption for stored data and on-demand encryption for arbitrary data; Charm Accounts: invisible user account creation and authentication
Inspect a command's effects before modifying your live system; Leverages Linux's namespaces and overlayfs union filesystem
Statistics
GitHub Stars
2.5K
GitHub Stars
5.4K
GitHub Forks
82
GitHub Forks
76
Stacks
4
Stacks
88
Followers
12
Followers
5
Votes
0
Votes
0
Integrations
macOS
macOS
Linux
Linux
Arch Linux
Arch Linux
FreeBSD
FreeBSD
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux
Linux
Linux
Arch Linux
Arch Linux
CentOS
CentOS
Fedora
Fedora
Debian
Debian
Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux

What are some alternatives to Charm, Try?

Starship (Shell Prompt)

Starship (Shell Prompt)

Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! The prompt shows information you need while you're working, while staying sleek and out of the way.

picocli

picocli

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.

TortoiseSVN

TortoiseSVN

It is an Apache™ Subversion (SVN)® client, implemented as a Windows shell extension. It's intuitive and easy to use, since it doesn't require the Subversion command line client to run. And it is free to use, even in a commercial environment.

tmux

tmux

It enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

Oh My ZSH

Oh My ZSH

A delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. It comes bundled with thousands of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes.

Bash-My-AWS

Bash-My-AWS

It is a simple but extremely powerful set of CLI commands for managing resources on Amazon Web Services. They harness the power of Amazon's AWSCLI, while abstracting away verbosity. The project implements some innovative patterns but (arguably) remains simple, beautiful and readable.

navi

navi

It allows you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands, prompting for argument values.

fzf

fzf

It is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. It's an interactive Unix filter for command-line that can be used with any list; files, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.

Scoop.sh

Scoop.sh

It installs programs to your home directory by default. So you don’t need admin permissions to install programs, and you won’t see UAC popups every time you need to add or remove a program.

Dockerized

Dockerized

Run popular command-line tools within docker. It works on Linux, MacOS, and Windows (CMD, Powershell, Git Bash). You can quickly try out command line tools without the effort of downloading and installing them.

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