Hacker News<p>argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go</p><p><a href="https://github.com/tdewolff/argp" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/tdewolff/argp</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/argp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>argp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Go" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Go</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/parser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parser</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commandline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commandline</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>
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Alfred M. Szmidt<p>Many years ago, I thought about making a thread .. regular posting, on "Secrets of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a> system" .. here is a small secret, a favourite of mine that we have is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/argp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>argp</span></a>, written by Miles Bader (RIP) some odd 20 years back now; it is a wrapper around getopt that stuffs much of the nonsense you need to meddle with into a structure. <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argp.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gnu.org/software/libc/manual/h</span><span class="invisible">tml_node/Argp.html</span></a></p><p>Ben Asselstine wrote a nice little book about argp: <a href="http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/argpbook/trunk/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/ar</span><span class="invisible">gpbook/trunk/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a></p>
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