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random thought: what about a Kotlinx Serialization format that encoded to/from command line arguments?

So you could map between command line arguments and data classes

`--log-level INFO --repeat 3 --dry-run`

```@Serializable
data class Args(
  @SerialName("log-level")
  val logLevel : LogLevel,

  val repeat: UInt = 1,

  @SerialName("dry-run")
  val dryRun: Boolean,
)```
It would be kind of like the <https://ktor.io/docs/type-safe-routing.html|type-safe routing in Ktor>, or instead of `parseSpaceSeparatedArgs()` and a more hackable version of <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-cli/|kotlinx-cli>.

The usage mostly being to parse `fun main(args: Array&lt;String&gt;) {}`, but it could also be used to wrap existing CLI tools, so they can be called from Kotlin (and Gradle), type-safely.

I've been using <https://ajalt.github.io/clikt/> for command line parsing and <https://ajalt.github.io/mordant/> for text styling and progress bars. Found both of them super useful.

If you like Compose, Mosaic (<https://github.com/JakeWharton/mosaic>) is also pretty good