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picocli vs navi: 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; navi: An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line. It allows you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands, prompting for argument values.
picocli and navi can be primarily classified as "Shell Utilities" tools.
Some of the features offered by picocli are:
- Java 5-13ea
- annotation API
- programmatic API
On the other hand, navi provides the following key features:
- Shell widget
- Searching online repositories
- Pre-filtering
picocli and navi are both open source tools. navi with 3.54K GitHub stars and 145 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than picocli with 1.5K GitHub stars and 151 GitHub forks.
Pros of navi
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