readline
Shell library with powerful and modern UI, large feature set, and `.inputrc` support (by reeflective)
console
Closed-loop application library for Cobra commands (powerful, ready-to-run and easy to use) (by reeflective)
| readline | console | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | |
| 73 | 62 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.5 | 7.3 | |
| 17 days ago | 14 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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.
readline
Posts with mentions or reviews of readline.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.
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CLI application libraries, updated versions (readline and spf13/cobra console).
A readline shell library: https://github.com/reeflective/readline.The `readline` library has been fully rewritten to provide full support for the widespread `.inputrc` init file format (used by bash shells and all programs using the GNU C Readline library). The library has been rewritten into a much more robust codebase with complete test coverage of the core code.
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Show HN: New set of Go libraries for CLI Development
This library wraps the readline library (described below) and leverages cobra commands in order to provide a closed-loop console working with cobra commands out of the box, also providing many comfort-of-life features at minimum cost, like support for oh-my-posh prompt engines, different menus and much more.
Readline (https://github.com/reeflective/readline)
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Libraries for CLI and console applications
Readline (https://github.com/reeflective/readline) Readline libraries in pure Go already exist, and the chzyer/readline one is widely used. However they might lack some features, or even a full-fledged Emacs/Vim edition mode. Most of them lack many UI features found in common shells. Readline has been written to bring a new shell library with features found in most recent shells, with a simple API for developpers.
console
Posts with mentions or reviews of console.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.
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CLI application libraries, updated versions (readline and spf13/cobra console).
A cobra command console: https://github.com/reeflective/console: this library targets a much more restrained set of application developers, which are interested in closed-loop CLI applications with specific sets of commands, and generally deprived of any specific syntax outside the one-liner command model. It relies on the `readline` library above, which is tightly integrated so as to provide a console application much more powerful than most, with complete support for the [spf13/cobra](https://github.com/spf13/cobra) library.
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Show HN: New set of Go libraries for CLI Development
flags aims to merge the concepts from https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags, and https://github.com/octago/sflags, both relying on struct tags to define CLI command specs. The flags library uses these underlying concepts to produce complete `cobra.Command` trees, and brings many comfort-of-life improvements for the generated applications/commands.
Console (https://github.com/reeflective/console)
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Libraries for CLI and console applications
Console (https://github.com/reeflective/console) This library wraps the readline library (described below) and leverages cobra commands in order to provide a closed-loop console working with cobra commands out of the box, also providing many comfort-of-life features at minimum cost, like support for oh-my-posh prompt engines, different menus and much more.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing readline and console you can also consider the following projects:
flags - Generate cobra command trees from structs. Go-flags compliant tags. Advanced CLI functionality, out-of-the-box.
go-flags - go command line option parser
sflags - Generate flags by parsing structures
dnsee - See DNS configurations quickly
go-arg - Struct-based argument parsing in Go
cidr - CLI to perform various actions on CIDR ranges
chroma - A general purpose syntax highlighter in pure Go
go-clap - Lightweight, non intrusive Command Line Argument Parser
readline - Readline is a pure go(golang) implementation for GNU-Readline kind library
cobrass - 🐲 Assistant for cli applications using cobra