Alternative review

kingpin alternatives

Packages below are ranked as alternatives in the same category. The trigger for this review is limited recent repository activity.

Why review alternatives

kingpin currently has a maintenance score of 15/100.

Latest repository activity: 8 years ago.

Known Go vulnerability records: 0.

Current package

kingpin

Package kingpin provides command line interfaces like this:

Go CLI Frameworks 0 stars 1.5K imported-by 80% confidence

Ranked Alternatives

Go CLI Frameworks

#1 urfave/cli

Package cli provides a minimal framework for creating and organizing command line Go applications.

Go CLI Frameworks 24.1K stars 23.1K imported-by 65% confidence

#2 Cobra

Package cobra is a commander providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI interfaces.

Go CLI Frameworks 44.1K stars 0 imported-by 65% confidence

#3 go-arg

Struct-based argument parsing in Go.

Go CLI Frameworks 2.3K stars 1.7K imported-by 65% confidence

#4 dasel

Unified querying, transformation, and modification of JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, INI, HCL, KDL and CSV.

Go CLI Frameworks 8.0K stars 0 imported-by 45% confidence

#5 kong

Package kong aims to support arbitrarily complex command-line structures with as little developer effort as possible.

Go CLI Frameworks 0 stars 3.1K imported-by 80% confidence

#6 mow.cli

Package cli provides a framework to build command line applications in Go with most of the burden of arguments parsing and validation placed on the framework instead of the user.

Go CLI Frameworks 884 stars 895 imported-by 100% confidence

How to use this page

Treat alternatives as a shortlist. Check API compatibility, migration effort, project constraints, and your own threat model before replacing a dependency.