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by hwj 2654 days ago
This is a Go library that parses a usage string into an AST.
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"Docli" makes it sound like a generic documentation generator for CLIs.

IMO name should make it clear it is Go-only. Something like "GoastArgs: a Go library that parses a usage string/CLI args into an AST"

I am not a Go user so I can't speak about Go specifically, but I feel like including the name of the language in the library name is in general an anti-pattern, since generally when you look for a library to do something in language A, you aren't going to get results using language B anyway.
Thanks for the feedback umvi. I will be working on making it clear that Docli is a Go library.
But, for the love of God, please don't put the word "Go" in the name :D
Exactly! Thank you for clarifying that. The documentation still needs some improvements, and this is one of them.
Thanks, it's very disappointing when a comment describes the product better than the official webpage.
Not that unusual really. Whenever you hear about new stuff, chances are it's better to look it up on Wikipedia first.
Docli doesn't seem to have a Wikipedia article yet.
Not unusual. But still disappointing.