config vs xdg

config

JSON or YAML configuration wrapper with convenient access methods. (by olebedev)

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xdg

A cross platform package that follows the XDG Standard (by OpenPeeDeeP)

Configuration xdg-compliance Golang golang-package

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config		xdg
	Project
-	Mentions	-
268	Stars	80
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	1.8
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
Go	Language	Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

config

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

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

xdg

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing config and xdg you can also consider the following projects:

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.

envconf - Configure Go applications from the environment

ini - Package ini provides INI file read and write functionality in Go

fig - A minimalist Go configuration library

envconfig - Small library to read your configuration from environment variables

hjson - Hjson for Go

go-arg - Struct-based argument parsing in Go

go-aws-ssm - Go package that interfaces with AWS System Manager

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