I used ArgMacros.jl for one of my Julia scripts. But it’s been broken with Julia 1.12.0. The initial bug report was 3 weeks ago (for the pre-release version of 1.12.0). I’m not complaining at all. I just wonder whether this means that very few people are using this package.
So, my question is, is there any standard/common/popular command-line parser? Or, perhaps, there aren’t many people who use command line arguments for their scripts?
If there is no hope of getting a standard command-line parser soon, I’ll just write ad-hoc code to handle command-line args for each script.
As far as I know, ArgParse.jl (which is also mentioned in the topic you link to) is the most popular package for argument parsing. This works without any issues on Julia 1.12.
There’s also SimpleArgParse.jl which I’ve used in the past, but on Julia 1.12 I seem to get (precompilation) errors. (Presumably this is not new in Julia 1.12: GitHub · Where software is built .)
I’ve been using ArgParse.jl, but I’m slightly uncomfortable with it, since I cannot memorize its macro syntax, and I always end up copying and pasting the basic boilerplate when I start writing a new program.