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Matt Haggard
Personal blog · iffycan.com/posts · on HN as iffycanprogrammingweb
Matt Haggard writes iffy can, a personal blog at iffycan.com about programming and web. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments on this Nim-focused post discuss command-line argument libraries such as cligen, therapist and nim-argparse. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is Matt Haggard's personal website. I'm a dad, who studied Electrical Engineering and programs for a living. I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some people call my Iffy.
What Hacker News says?
Well, cligen is pretty mature/featureful, less work to use and well maintained and is the most common recommendation in Nim. If you happen to like more verbosely specified CLI interfaces like Python's argparse there are at least two pretty close to the Python argparse -- therapist [1] and nim-argparse [2]. There is much more to any programming language than its stdlib. { If you find these insufficiently "drop-in com…
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