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1. cobra

   1 151 44,574 5.6 Go

   A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

   

   Project mention: Show HN: Convert Go to Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-14

   and it gives you a Rust dependency.

   > $ rinku lookup https://github.com/spf13/cobra

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3. ctop

   2 42 17,779 0.0 Go

   Top-like interface for container metrics

   

   Project mention: Portainer vs Lazydocker: Which Docker UI? | dev.to | 2026-03-10

   No. Portainer is web-only. You can open a container console through the Portainer web UI, but Portainer itself has no terminal interface. If you want a TUI, use Lazydocker or ctop.

4. gotests

   3 10 5,329 8.2 Go

   Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code.

   

5. hdfs

   4 3 1,404 4.0 Go

   A native go client for HDFS

   

6. multi-gitter

   5 15 1,232 8.0 Go

   Update multiple repositories in with one command

   

7. tsukae

   6 7 431 1.8 Go

   🐚📊 Show off your most used shell commands

   

8. gemini-cli

   7 2 219 6.0 Go

   A command-line interface (CLI) for Google Gemini (by reugn)

   

9. AppSignal

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   Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

   

10. joincap

    8 0 218 5.0 Go

    Merge multiple pcap files together, gracefully.

    

11. nice

    9 7 209 0.0 Go

    Highly customizable and idiomatic Go CLI app framework 👌

    

12. cmdr

    10 0 141 7.2 Go

    POSIX-compliant command-line UI (CLI) parser and Hierarchical-configuration operations

    

13. flag

    11 0 132 4.5 Go

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

    

14. calories

    12 0 110 0.0 Go

    Calories Tracker for the Commandline

    

15. warg

    13 12 56 8.4 Go

    Declarative CLI framework

    

    Project mention: It's OK to Use Agentic to Revive the Projects You Never Were Going to Finish | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-25

    I've been doing the same thing with my CLI framework. Rethinking and rebuilding with no pressure to finish is a lot of fun.

    I've been using the CHANGELOG [0] as a "blog" explaining WHY I made the changes and that's really been fun to look back and read too

    0: https://github.com/bbkane/warg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

16. orpheus

    14 2 33 7.7 Go

    Orpheus is a high-performance CLI framework designed to be super simple and ~30× faster than popular alternatives with zero external dependencies. Built on FlashFlags, Orpheus provides a simple interface to create modern, fast CLI apps similar to git. (by agilira)

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Orpheus – A high-performance Go CLI framework with no ext. dependencies | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-09

    Everything you need—benchmarks, intensive fuzz tests, and all security checks—is included in the repo. The project is licensed under MPL-2.0.

    https://github.com/agilira/orpheus

    I’d be grateful for your feedback, especially from those who have built large CLI applications in Go or maintain internal developer tooling. What are your biggest pain points with existing frameworks?

    Thanks for taking a look.

17. rdf2smw

    15 1 20 5.4 Go

    Convert RDF to Semantic MediaWiki facts in MediaWiki XML format, with a standalone commandline tool

    

18. barkfetch

    16 1 19 3.6 Go

    Alternative to neofetch, written in go

    

19. flags

    17 2 13 8.8 Go

    Generate cobra command trees from structs. Go-flags compliant tags. Advanced CLI functionality, out-of-the-box. (by reeflective)

    

20. exitplan

    18 1 1 0.0 Go

    Golang Exit Callback for SIGINT & SIGTERM

    

21. myflags

    19 1 1 5.9 Go

    a golang module making flag/command line argument easy, define all commands/flags in a single struct

    

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