A pure golang implementation that provide most of features in GNU-Readline under MIT license.

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• cobra

  9.8 7.5 readline VS cobra

  A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

• urfave/cli

  9.8 8.8 readline VS urfave/cli

  A small package for building command line apps in Go.

• kingpin

  8.6 5.9 readline VS kingpin

  A command line and flag parser supporting sub commands.

• The Platinum Searcher

  8.6 1.3 readline VS The Platinum Searcher

  A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

• go-flags

  8.0 6.0 readline VS go-flags

  go command line option parser

• docopt.go

  7.6 0.0 readline VS docopt.go

  A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.

• pflag

  7.4 4.1 readline VS pflag

  Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.

• mitchellh/cli

  7.3 2.6 readline VS mitchellh/cli

  A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.

• cli-init

  7.2 0.0 readline VS cli-init

  The easy way to start building Golang command line application.

• liner

  6.6 2.9 readline VS liner

  A Go readline-like library for command-line interfaces.

• mow.cli

  6.6 4.1 readline VS mow.cli

  A Go library for building CLI applications with sophisticated flag and argument parsing and validation.

• complete

  6.5 5.3 readline VS complete

  Write bash completions in Go + Go command bash completion.

• go-arg

  6.5 5.0 readline VS go-arg

  Struct-based argument parsing in Go

• cli

  6.3 3.2 readline VS cli

  A feature-rich and easy to use command-line package based on golang tag

• climax

  4.7 0.0 readline VS climax

  An alternative CLI with "human face", in spirit of Go command

• argparse

  4.0 2.7 readline VS argparse

  Command line argument parser inspired by Python's argparse module.

• ukautz/clif

  3.8 0.0 readline VS ukautz/clif

  A small command line interface framework.

• commandeer

  3.7 4.7 readline VS commandeer

  Dev-friendly CLI apps: sets up flags, defaults, and usage based on struct fields and tags.

• sflags

  3.7 3.2 readline VS sflags

  Struct based flags generator for flag, urfave/cli, pflag, cobra, kingpin and other libraries.

• flag

  3.7 3.9 readline VS flag

  A simple but powerful command line option parsing library for Go support subcommand

• wmenu

  3.6 2.5 readline VS wmenu

  An easy to use menu structure for cli applications that prompts users to make choices.

• calories

  2.5 0.0 readline VS calories

  Calories Tracker for the Commandline

• wlog

  2.2 0.0 readline VS wlog

  A simple logging interface that supports cross-platform color and concurrency.

• gocmd

  2.2 1.8 readline VS gocmd

  Go library for building command line applications.

• strumt

  1.6 2.7 readline VS strumt

  Library to create prompt chain.

• argv

  1.5 2.7 readline VS argv

  A Go library to split command line string as arguments array using the bash syntax.

• go-cli

  1.0 1.7 readline VS go-cli

  A full-featured and easy to use command-line package

• Go-Console

  0.4 7.5 readline VS Go-Console

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• multi-tailf

  0.3 0.0 readline VS multi-tailf

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