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qbasic_forever on Jan 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Argdown: A simple syntax for complex argumentation

Consider protobufs, you have to do a bit more work but if you're going to schematize an API (which a CLI is when you get down to it) it's a good universal option.

gkfasdfasdf on Jan 20, 2023 [–]

How would that work exactly? So args resolve into a protobuf struct? But how are human readable args parsed into a protobuf?

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