It depends largely on what you're doing, and where it will be running. If you're writing something that takes a bunch of flags, then parses text, I'd use perl.

It depends largely on what you're doing, and where it will be running. If you're writing something that takes a bunch of flags, then parses text, I'd use perl. If you're using somethign that must be easily installed on 100+ hosts then perhaps a binary compiled from go - because that's easy to install. For frameworks? That's probably secondary to the actual core of your application. If you're writing a complex UI with (n)curses then that's more interesting and complex than calling getopt a few times..