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by morelisp 1690 days ago
> what languages beside Python and Go provide Command line argument parsing?

Even POSIX gives you getopt(1) and getopt(3). What other language doesn't? I can only think of Java.
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megumax 1690 days ago
POSIX is not ISO C or C++ standard. On Windows, what are you gonna do?

Also, other languages are Rust, Kotlin, Swift (to name a few `modern` ones). Yes, Kotlin and Swift have `first class` CLI parsing libraries, but they are not part of standard library.

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morelisp 1690 days ago
"First-party" is distinct from "first class". The difference between a first-party library and the standard library ranges from "slightly weaker compatibility guarantees" to "it's supported in all environments where it makes sense, but the language can run unhosted so that's not everywhere" to "no difference at all, we just didn't want to package it with the compiler".

You're also missing the forest for the "well actually" trees: Lots of languages have argument parsing in their stdlib.

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afavour 1690 days ago
Sure, and Node gives you the process.argv array. The point is having higher level APIs than that.
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voldacar 1690 days ago
it feels like the more higher level APIs we add, the shittier and more annoying software becomes
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morelisp 1690 days ago
getopt is a higher-level API. process.argv is equivalent to, uh, argv.
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