Category Archives: cli4clj

Create simple interactive CLIs for Clojure applications:
https://github.com/ruedigergad/cli4clj

cli4clj 1.7.9 – Properly GraalVM-ready and Fixes

cli4clj aims on enabling developers to “Create simple interactive Command Line Interfaces (CLIs) for Clojure applications.” With the latest version, 1.7.9, which I pushed some time ago this year, cli4clj should finally be properly GraalVM-ready. In a previous post, I … Continue reading

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cli4clj 1.7.2 – “GraalVM-ready”

In this post, I briefly summarize my experience of making cli4clj “GraalVM-ready”. Inspired by Jan Stepien’s talk about GraalVM at :clojureD 2019, I got curious about GraalVM. So, I gave it a try to build a “native” executable of the … Continue reading

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cli4clj – @clojuredconf Wrap-up

I just returned from the fantastic :clojureD 2019 conference. As a wrap-up of my lightning talk on cli4clj, I uploaded the slides of my lightning talk: cli4clj – Easing the Implementation of Interactive Command Line Interfaces in Clojure for “Everyone” … Continue reading

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cli4clj 1.7.0 – Alternate Scrolling Mode

In this post, I briefly introduce a newly added “alternate” scrolling mode for cli4clj, a library for easing the implementation of interactive command line interfaces (CLIs) for Clojure applications. Since quite some time, I had been a bit unhappy about … Continue reading

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cli4clj Version 1.5.3 – Mixing cli4clj- and Clojure-style Syntax

cli4clj aims on easing the implementation of interactive command line interfaces (CLIs) targeting “everyone” as CLI users. One implication of “targeting everyone” is that CLIs implemented with cli4clj should be usable by “non-lispers”. Thus, cli4clj purposely does not use lisp- … Continue reading

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cli4clj 1.4.0 Released – Now with Persistent Command History by Default

cli4clj aims on quickly and effortlessly creating interactive Command Line Interfaces (CLIs) for Clojure applications. It is based on jline2 and the Clojure REPL and tries to provide (hopefully) reasonable abstractions and defaults. Features of cli4clj include, e.g.: simple configuration … Continue reading

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cli4clj Version 1.3.2 – New: Embedded CLIs

In this post, I announce cli4clj version 1.3.2 and write a bit about the newly added functionality for creating embedded Command Line Interfaces (CLIs). For those unfamiliar with cli4clj: the aim of cli4clj is to ease the implementation of simple … Continue reading

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Unit Testing Arbitrary Interactive Clojure Command Line Interfaces (CLIs) with cli4clj – Illustrated using the Example of the Clojure REPL

In my previous posts, I primarily focused on cli4clj itself and on CLIs created with cli4clj. In this post, I want to address a bit the applicability of the cli4clj unit testing functionality for testing “third-party” CLIs. I will do … Continue reading

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cli4clj 1.2.5 – Improved Testability of Multi-threaded Command Line Applications in Clojure

In my previous post, I already outlined the problem of testing multi-threaded interactive command line interfaces (CLIs). In the meantime, I came up with some improvements for addressing the testability of multi-threaded command line applications with cli4clj. In this post … Continue reading

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cli4clj Version 1.2.3 Released

cli4clj is a library for easing the implementation of simple interactive command line interfaces (CLIs) for Clojure applications. In this post, I briefly announce the release of cli4clj version 1.2.3. The most important changes in version 1.2.3 are: Add support … Continue reading

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