acmd VS go-flags

Compare acmd vs go-flags and see what are their differences.

acmd

Simple, useful and opinionated CLI package in Go. (by cristalhq)
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acmd go-flags
1 9
109 2,509
2.8% -
5.0 0.0
3 days ago 13 days ago
Go Go
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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acmd

Posts with mentions or reviews of acmd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.
  • Github Actions and Go
    4 projects | /r/golang | 21 Mar 2023
    For average repo it takes seconds so I don't see a good reason to optimise it (example https://github.com/cristalhq/acmd/actions/runs/4477453520/jobs/7869000045). However, `go vet` can be done after `go build/test`.

go-flags

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-flags. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-17.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing acmd and go-flags you can also consider the following projects:

flaggy - Idiomatic Go input parsing with subcommands, positional values, and flags at any position. No required project or package layout and no external dependencies.

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go

kingpin - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: A Go (golang) command line and flag parser

complete - bash completion written in go + bash completion for go command

kong - Kong is a command-line parser for Go

mow.cli - A versatile library for building CLI applications in Go

pflag - Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.

The Platinum Searcher - A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.