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Building quiCkLI: Why I Started a Minimal CLI Framework

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Sven Patrick Meier
Creator and maintainer of quiCkLI, an educational Python CLI framework

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.