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Ask HN: What libraries does go have for building interactive shells?
I want to build a command line tool with context-sensitive completion. This is important because it allows interactive exploration of the options -- both of the application and of the current data model -- available to the user.
So far this is what I've found.
https://github.com/desertbit/grumble
https://github.com/spf13/cobra
https://github.com/urfave/cli
https://github.com/abiosoft/ishell
I would like to know people's experiences and recommendations in building such an app in go.
- gjvc 5y agohttps://github.com/spf13/cobra https://github.com/spf13/cobra seems to be the most comprehensive, but honourable mentions go to all of the rest.
- abhijat 5y agoDo you want to build an interactive shell or a cli tool? For a custom shell I have used https://github.com/chzyer/readline https://github.com/chzyer/readline before, but I did not work on it a lot. I also wanted custom completions based on context and this readline implementation was decent for that.