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

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• cobra

  9.9 6.8 readline VS cobra

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• urfave/cli

  9.8 9.3 readline VS urfave/cli

  A small package for building command line apps in Go.

• kingpin

  8.9 5.6 readline VS kingpin

  A command line and flag parser supporting sub commands.

• The Platinum Searcher

  8.8 0.0 readline VS The Platinum Searcher

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• go-flags

  8.0 6.0 readline VS go-flags

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• pflag

  8.0 4.1 readline VS pflag

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• Dnote

  8.0 8.4 readline VS Dnote

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• docopt.go

  7.6 0.0 readline VS docopt.go

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• mitchellh/cli

  7.3 2.6 readline VS mitchellh/cli

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• cli-init

  7.2 0.0 readline VS cli-init

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• flaggy

  6.7 6.7 readline VS flaggy

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• liner

  6.6 2.9 readline VS liner

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• mow.cli

  6.6 4.1 readline VS mow.cli

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• complete

  6.5 5.3 readline VS complete

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• cli

  6.3 3.2 readline VS cli

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• ops

  6.1 8.4 readline VS ops

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• argparse

  5.1 6.3 readline VS argparse

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• climax

  4.7 0.0 readline VS climax

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• commandeer

  4.5 5.2 readline VS commandeer

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• ukautz/clif

  4.3 0.0 readline VS ukautz/clif

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• wmenu

  4.3 1.4 readline VS wmenu

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

• 1build

  3.8 8.9 readline VS 1build

  Command line tool to frictionlessly manage project-specific commands.

• flag

  3.7 3.9 readline VS flag

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

• sflags

  3.7 3.2 readline VS sflags

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

• job

  3.4 6.3 readline VS job

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• calories

  3.1 0.0 readline VS calories

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• cmdr

  2.5 9.5 readline VS cmdr

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• flagvar

  2.4 0.9 readline VS flagvar

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• 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

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• go-getoptions

  2.0 8.0 readline VS go-getoptions

  Go option parser inspired on the flexibility of Perl’s GetOpt::Long.

• go-commander

  1.9 2.0 readline VS go-commander

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• strumt

  1.6 2.7 readline VS strumt

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• argv

  1.5 2.7 readline VS argv

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• sand

  1.1 0.0 readline VS sand

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• clîr

  1.0 7.0 readline VS clîr

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• go-cli

  1.0 1.7 readline VS go-cli

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• ts

  0.7 4.7 readline VS ts

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• 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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• hiboot cli

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