Cobra Alternatives

cobra reviews and mentions

• Ian Lance Taylor of the Go Team Leaves Google
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2025

  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

• 🥳 We built the cli of our dreams to send sms ❣️
  9 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2025

  Then, I wanted to bring my team to the Go experience at the office as sometimes we need to deliver apps to systems on which we don't want or can't install new softwares : so delivering a static binary thanks to Go and goreleaser seemed a good option for effortless cross-compilation... and of course build the best possible UX thanks to Cobra.

• argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2025

  Cobra https://github.com/spf13/cobra uses https://github.com/spf13/pflag, which supports GNU style flags. Cobra has been developed for many years now and has a ton of additional features, like automatically generating the autocompletions and has tons of unit tests.

  I'd just use cobra.

• Show HN: Protostar – A CLI Prototyping Tool
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2025

  You did a really great job describing the project and documenting it in the README. Congrats. The project looks super clean and professional.

  That being said, TBH I don't see any real scenario where I would "prototype a CLI". Unlike a GUI where elements can be placed in some places vs others, a CLI is a CLI.

  For any developer, it would probably take less time to write it directly using one of the libraries listed here : https://bloomberg.github.io/stricli/blog/intro (TS/JS) or https://github.com/spf13/cobra (Go) with stub implementations for commands.

  The main problem for me is that defining the CLI in a JSON file lacks all the flexibility of code (reusability, etc.).

• Create a Server Driven CLI from your REST API
  8 projects | dev.to | 18 Feb 2025

  Spec duplication: the paths, the schemas etc need to be replicated on the client side again. eg when using the popular Cobra lib for Go, one must tell it all the possible types beforehand.

• ⏳GitHub Copilot 1-Day Build Challenge : eol, a tiny Go client to manage eols
  3 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2025

  I really enjoyed a lot the resulting prototype I manage to get within almost 2 hours and it gave me the confirmation that I wanted to spend more time to make a clean code and lear more about Go best practices and probably use Cobra.dev (A Framework for Modern CLI Apps in Go) to learn while building something fun yet useful.

• Top 5 Go Libraries Every Backend Developer Should Know
  6 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2025

  4. Cobra

• Show HN: CREV – A Go-based CLI tool for AI code reviews and codebase exports
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2024

  - Terminal-Based Workflow: CREV is a CLI tool, removing the need to switch between your editor and the browser.

  I have written the CREV CLI tool in Go as I was interested in learning the language and I heard many good things about it’s efficiency and speed. I used https://github.com/spf13/cobra to manage the CLI commands and [Viper](https://github.com/spf13/viper) for handling configurations. This is the first project I have done with Go but I find the language interesting and the Go routines also help with reading in your entire codebase. For the code reviews themselves I use google cloud functions which invoke GPT-4o (am also planning to add Claude 3.5 and GPT-o1).

  I’d love to hear your feedback—whether it’s ideas for new features or reasons why you believe this tool is useful or useless to you. I am using it daily so it at least solved my own problem :)

• Technical Deep Dive: How We Built the Pizza CLI Using Go and Cobra
  7 projects | dev.to | 23 Sep 2024

  The Pizza CLI is a Go command-line tool that leverages several standard libraries. Go’s simplicity, speed, and systems programming focus make it an ideal choice for building CLIs. At its core, the Pizza-CLI uses spf13/cobra, a CLI bootstrapping library in Go, to organize and manage the entire tree of commands.

• Developing CLIs
  3 projects | dev.to | 12 Aug 2024

  As we started to flesh out our CLI, we also wanted to test edge cases and detect regressions. I surveyed public cobra/bubbletea based CLIs to look for ideas, and found frustratingly few tests. Then we stumbled upon Charm's teatest which gave us a starting point.

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