Picocli is a modern framework for building powerful, user-friendly, GraalVM-enabled command line apps with ease. It supports colors, autocompletion, subcommands, and more. In 1 source file so apps can include as source & avoid adding a dependency. Written in Java, usable from Groovy, Kotlin, Scala, etc.
remkop/picocli has 5,424 GitHub stars. It gained 0 stars over 1 recorded day in the last 7 days (snapshots through Sep 6, 2026).
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