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   洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) (hongminhee@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 08:34:53 JST 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

   I wish #Haskell had an interactive command-line application library like #Deno's #Cliffy.

   https://cliffy.io/

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     glyn (underlap@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 17:55:00 JST glyn

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     @hongminhee What does Cliffy provide that optparse-applicative doesn't? Presumably some kind of interactive code generation.

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     洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) (hongminhee@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 17:55:00 JST 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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     • glyn

     @underlap For me, the lack of prompts is the biggest miss, though I find it not to be something applicative-optparse should have. I'd like to see a library that deals with prompts well. The one that comes closest is fortytwo, but it seemingly doesn't support Windows.

     https://cliffy.io/docs@v1.0.0-rc.3/prompt/types/select

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     洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) (hongminhee@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 19:28:02 JST 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

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     • glyn

     @underlap A separate library seems like a better idea. IMHO prompting the user for input in itself seems independent of parsing command line arguments.

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     glyn (underlap@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 19:28:03 JST glyn

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     @hongminhee Would it make sense to create a separate prompt helper library, possibly designed for use with optparse-applicative? What do you think?

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     glyn (underlap@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 19:29:35 JST glyn

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     @hongminhee E.g. are you talking about simply prompting the user for input, or displaying certain information in a prompt, or what exactly?

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     glyn (underlap@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 19:29:36 JST glyn

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     @hongminhee Either way, it would be good to clarify your prompt requirements, so someone else could help provide that feature.