Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

With the number of libraries available to Go developers these days, you’d think building a CLI app was now a trivial matter. But like many things in software development, it depends. In this episode, we explore the challenges that arose during one team’s journey towards a production-ready CLI.

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Featuring:

• Wesley Beary – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• How Anchor developed a CLI and the tools that helped along the way.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly (00:00:47)

https://fly.io/

3. Intro (00:03:16)

4. Setting out to build (00:06:08)

5. Network calls (00:14:08)

6. Sponsor: JetBrains (00:21:17)

https://www.bytesizego.com/goland

7. Versioning (00:24:28)

8. Next step (00:26:21)

9. CLI (00:29:58)

10. From Ruby to Go (00:37:03)

11. Words of wisdom (00:41:53)

12. Sponsor: Retool (00:45:13)

https://retool.com/changelog

13. Unpopular Opinions! (00:46:57)

14. Wesley's first unpop (00:47:31)

15. Wesley's second unpop (00:53:02)

16. Outro (00:56:37)