Welcome to ucharm

ucharm is a CLI toolkit for building beautiful command-line applications with Python syntax, powered by PocketPy.

Write in familiar Python, ship as single-file executables under 1MB that start in milliseconds.

Why ucharm?

• Instant startup - Under 10ms cold start, no interpreter warm-up
• Tiny binaries - Single-file executables under 1MB
• Python syntax - No new language to learn
• Beautiful output - Tables, boxes, progress bars, colors built-in
• Interactive prompts - Select, multiselect, confirm with keyboard navigation
• 50+ native modules - JSON, HTTP, SQLite, regex, and more in native Zig

Quick Example

from ucharm import box, table, success, select

# Beautiful boxes
box("Welcome to my app!", title="Hello", border_color="cyan")

# Interactive prompts
choice = select("Pick an option:", ["Deploy", "Test", "Exit"])

# Formatted tables
table([
    ["Status", "Count"],
    ["Passed", "42"],
    ["Failed", "0"],
], headers=True)

success(f"Selected: {choice}")

What's Different?

ucharm is not a drop-in replacement for CPython. It's a focused runtime optimized for CLI applications:

Next Steps