The Xclif Manifesto

Hello! This is my CLI framework that I made because I thought about the limitations of scalability other big CLIs encounter. When I was building apps with Click, the startup time gets really slow. Additionally, I have not seen any other Python CLI library do this: file-based routing.

Having contributed to some of Poetry's codebase, I realize that this is actually a very scalable pattern. The only issue is that there isn't a library that embraces it.

Finally, I envision a fully-fledged, batteries-included framework that handles everything from verbosity flags to configuration files.

While I had concieved of this idea a long time ago, I had only been able to finish and launch this recently with the help of AI. As you can tell, the documentation is AI-generated. However, that shouldn't detract from the core idea.