hey arne, congrats on the release! I’d be interested in how this compares to https://github.com/babashka/cli.

I'd be interested too! You'd have to read the READMEs and compare. Many small and less small differences in design, which you may or may not find more intuitive. I think the specification of commands and flags strikes a good balance between conciseness and expressiveness. The ability to take docstrings and other configuration from var metadata is compelling. In general it looks like li.cli is more opinionated and framework-y (we call you), while bb.cli is more a collection of pieces. E.g. we implement --help for you, while bb.cli gives you building blocks to do it yourself.

Looking good 👌 One thing most cli libs are missing is shell completion. I really like the Typer python lib for this reason, atleast for fish shell you even get completions as you develop, so you do not need to reinstall the completions as you change the script. I believe it hooks the script itself into the fish completion system.

yeah that would definitely be nice. Implementing shell completion is notoriously dense and cryptic, and you'd need to do at least bash and zsh (IMO), which are completely different... a feature I'd love to have, and maybe one day will add, but not one I look forward to writing.

Yes, not trivial but definitely doable. I wonder if there is a library somewhere that abstracts completions and generates all the bits and pieces for the different shells (bash/zsh/fish)? Fish also has inline docs, maybe the other do too nowadays? This is for example what I get when typing "ls -" then tab:

thanks I love this lib!

Amazingly useful. Thanks for releasing this!

(insignificant) typo; "persistet"