Writing CLI Tools in Go: From Zero to Useful in an Afternoon

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000

I write a lot of little command-line tools. Glue that wires two APIs together, a thing that munges a CSV the way I actually need it, a daemon that watches a directory and pokes something when a file lands. For years my reflex was a Bash script that grew tentacles, or a Python file that worked fine on my machine and nowhere else. These days I reach for Go, and I keep reaching for it because the gap between “idea” and “a binary I can hand to someone” is genuinely about an afternoon. Here’s why, and how.

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Writing CLI Tools in Go: From Zero to Useful in an Afternoon