3 posts tagged with "design"

There are already excellent Python CLI frameworks. argparse is in the standard library. click is polished and widely used. typer generates interfaces from type annotations. If these exist, why build another one?

This post answers that question honestly. It is the first in a series about the development of quiCkLI - what it is, why it exists, and where it is going.

Designing a CLI is more than mapping strings to functions. You need to decide how users discover commands, provide values, recover from mistakes, and compose tools in scripts.

Every design decision in quiCkLI was made with a specific kind of developer in mind. In this post I want to be explicit about who that is, because it explains decisions that might otherwise seem arbitrary.