gcfg vs go-arg

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gcfg		go-arg
	Project
-	Mentions	6
165	Stars	1,857
0.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	4.4
almost 3 years ago	Latest Commit	17 days ago
Go	Language	Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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gcfg

Posts with mentions or reviews of gcfg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning gcfg yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

go-arg

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-arg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.

Go-Arg: Struct-based argument parsing in Go
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023
Build a GitHub Issues Reporter for failing Kubernetes Apps with Botkube Plugins
7 projects | dev.to | 2 Feb 2023

Under the hood, the pluginx.ParseCommand method uses go-arg.
Libraries for CLI and console applications
6 projects | /r/golang | 7 Jan 2023

I’ve used multiple libraries over the last two years but less is more and go-arg feels like something that would be in the stdlib: https://github.com/alexflint/go-arg
Libraries you use most of your projects?
30 projects | /r/golang | 2 Nov 2022
Best practice for configuring secrets
6 projects | /r/golang | 6 Apr 2022

I use this: https://github.com/alexflint/go-arg and setting defaults for my local environment. So no need to keep a .env file.
Recommended framework/library for creating cli apps in go?
9 projects | /r/golang | 27 Jan 2022

I personally swear by the go-arg package, as i prefer its library-not-framework approach.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gcfg and go-arg you can also consider the following projects:

viper - Go configuration with fangs

argparse - Argparse for golang. Just because `flag` sucks

goConfig - goconfig uses a struct as input and populates the fields of this struct with parameters from command line, environment variables and configuration file.

flag - Flag is a simple but powerful command line option parsing library for Go support infinite level subcommand

envcfg - Un-marshaling environment variables to Go structs

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

mini - A golang package for parsing ini-style configuration files

go-flags - go command line option parser

ingo - persistent storage for flags in go

gookit/config - 📝 Go configuration manage(load,get,set,export). support JSON, YAML, TOML, Properties, INI, HCL, ENV and Flags. Multi file load, data override merge, parse ENV var. Go应用配置加载管理，支持多种格式，多文件加载，远程文件加载，支持数据合并，解析环境变量名

docopt.go - A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.