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Very cool about the SEA feature, I haven't seen that before. Thanks for sharing that
This is sort of the worst case comparison, but a hello world program in go is 1.5 MiB and the SEA node equivalent is 109 MiB. Obviously as your program becomes more complex that fixed overhead becomes less of an issue but I think it's still a useful comparison.
For the packages, the thing I prefer even more so is writing an application with 0 dependencies at all. net/http, net/http/pprof, flag, pprof, etc are all built in and high quality and you can easily build clis/servers with them. Even a really full featured CLI builder package like cobra has just a few transitive deps and gorilla/mux has none: https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/main/go.sum https://github.com/gorilla/mux/blob/main/go.mod
If I compare that with express.js or commander its a very different story (though, in fairness to commander, they all seem to be dev deps).
I don't think it's bad per se to have deps, just a different culture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935067 kinda beat that horse already though
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Then, we execute the form's Run method. We won't delve into the implementation details here, but the Run method uses Charm's Bubble Tea library. Bubble Tea generates a model (the form's state) and manages that state. For more information, see the Bubble Tea Documentation
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Micro editor (https://micro-editor.github.io/) works best for me but it's terminal-based.
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Project mention: argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-23
Cobra is certainly popular, but it has many weird edge cases and limitations. It's been a while since I've used it so I can't recall the specifics, but I do remember it being a very poor experience, both as a developer and as a user of an app that uses it.
I've had a much better experience using https://github.com/alecthomas/kong , and I've heard good things about https://github.com/urfave/cli , so I would recommend those over Cobra.
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Before Dolt appeared on my radar, I thought this problem was non-trivial, and very difficult to implement: Whenever a fork occurs, or blocks arrive at your node that conflict with your current chain, you have to validate these new blocks against a snapshot of your data at a specific point in time. This point in time is determined by the parent block hash of the incoming blocks. This requirement for "time-travel" has always deterred me from attempting my own blockchain implementation. I know that there are blockchains out there that have (maybe?) solved this, but I'm not as good as a programmer as those guys. If you're anything like me, maybe you can relate.
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VHS This tool was used to make the demo video for the CLI tool
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sampler
Tool for shell commands execution, visualization and alerting. Configured with a simple YAML file.
For the uninitiated like me, you have to hit the globe so it takes you to https://github.com/sqshq/sampler to find out more.
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Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs
Terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets — written in Golang
Project mention: [DevLog #01] Gmail-TUI: Replicating The Gmail-Web Experience In Terminal | dev.to | 2024-11-02Gmail-TUI is a simple TUI application that aims to replicate the Gmail Web-UI in a TUI-Environment. Is this even possible? I don't even know yet but let's find out! Special thanks to Rivo for their TUI Library.
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Project mention: The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-13
A minimalist, no-database bookmark manager suitable for quick and simple setup.
- *[Shiori](https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori)*
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qrcp
:zap: Transfer files over wifi from your computer to your mobile device by scanning a QR code without leaving the terminal.
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Project mention: Wave – open-source terminal file previews, editing, AI, web and workspaces | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-20
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frameworks / ORM are just specilized database graphical user interface front ends designed to simplify how data is displayed/inputed
Database management systems usually provide a way of importing/exporting 'raw' data via sql statement(s) results. aka cvs, comma delimited, html formatted, json formatted, etc. aka do command line sql query with 'html formatted output' and open results of file in a brower.
postgres psql provides an interactive 'cli' environment; windows sql server - sqlcmd;
usql[1] provides something similar to psql for no-sql databases.
sqlc is sorta the equivalent of combining the command line shell & sql queries. SQLx rust is rust extention for handling 'sql from command line, just via rust language, instead of going through command line shell.'
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[1] : https://github.com/xo/usql
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miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
Project mention: XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-27I recently came across https://github.com/johnkerl/miller. I don't know how these tools compare.
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"\033[31;1;4munderlines\033[0m" is (again) no worse than a stream of vertices or a stream of object code. Everything is a stream of bytes (well, a stream of bits anyway). Do you want CSS? Lipgloss is not too far off [0].
I read your objection basically as "escape sequences and control codes are noisy garbage"; are you saying something more like "the functionality you can achieve with escape sequences and control codes is fundamentally limited"? If that's the case, I don't see how, especially in the context of a character-based display.
[0]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss?tab=readme-ov-file...
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ipatool
Command-line tool that allows searching and downloading app packages (known as ipa files) from the iOS App Store
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Command-line projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cobra | 40,359 |
| 2 | bubbletea | 31,404 |
| 3 | micro-editor | 26,083 |
| 4 | urfave/cli | 23,127 |
| 5 | fx | 19,372 |
| 6 | dolt | 18,648 |
| 7 | vhs | 16,342 |
| 8 | ctop | 16,004 |
| 9 | termui | 13,342 |
| 10 | plandex | 13,227 |
| 11 | sampler | 13,069 |
| 12 | Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs | 11,952 |
| 13 | Shiori | 10,318 |
| 14 | gocui | 10,213 |
| 15 | qrcp | 10,164 |
| 16 | Wave Terminal | 10,093 |
| 17 | usql | 9,360 |
| 18 | miller | 9,282 |
| 19 | lipgloss | 8,932 |
| 20 | lf | 8,178 |
| 21 | kafka-go | 7,962 |
| 22 | color | 7,589 |
| 23 | ipatool | 6,860 |
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