go-arg vs CONFLATE

go-arg

Struct-based argument parsing in Go (by alexflint)

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CONFLATE

Library providing routines to merge and validate JSON, YAML and/or TOML files (by miracl)

Configuration Config Configuration Management Golang golang-library JSON json-schema YAML TOML Merge Structs

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go-arg		CONFLATE
	Project
6	Mentions	-
1,857	Stars	44
-	Growth	-
4.4	Activity	4.3
16 days ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
Go	Language	Go
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.

CONFLATE

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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

gofigure - Go configuration made easy!

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

go-toml - Go library for the TOML file format

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

konfig - Composable, observable and performant config handling for Go for the distributed processing era

go-flags - go command line option parser

go-env - Golang handling of environment values

viper - Go configuration with fangs

koanf - Simple, extremely lightweight, extensible, configuration management library for Go. Support for JSON, TOML, YAML, env, command line, file, S3 etc. Alternative to viper.

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