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mow.cli alternatives

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

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Why review alternatives

mow.cli currently has a maintenance score of 15/100.

Latest repository activity: 5 years ago.

Known Go vulnerability records: 0.

Current package

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 0 stars 895 imported-by 80% confidence
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Ranked Alternatives

Go CLI Frameworks

#1 Cobra

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

Go CLI Frameworks 44.0K stars 195.9K imported-by 100% confidence
95

#2 urfave/cli

Simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go.

Go CLI Frameworks 24.1K stars 23.1K imported-by 65% confidence
94

#3 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
85

#4 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
77

#5 go-arg

Package arg parses command line arguments using the fields from a struct.

Go CLI Frameworks 0 stars 1.7K imported-by 80% confidence
70

#6 flash-flags

Package flashflags provides ultra-fast, zero-dependency, lock-free command-line flag parsing for Go.

Go CLI Frameworks 0 stars 3 imported-by 80% confidence
67

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.