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The last post about miglite covered v0.4.0 in June. In the three months since then, it reached v0.8.0 through four releases and 69 commits (v0.4.0..v0.8.0). The main problem I wanted to solve was carrying a migrations/ directory alongside the binary. A few flags that were accepted but did nothing also needed fixing.

Many CLI tools start with a parser, a few commands, and some fmt.Println calls. That works until the tool needs readable config output, clear errors, prompts, progress bars, and logs that do not break in CI.

github.com/gookit/cliui is for that middle ground: not a full-screen TUI, but more than loose terminal prints. It splits the common pieces into three packages: show for structured output, interact for prompts and selections, and progress for long-running work.

The pace of command-line tooling has changed. New tools show up on GitHub every day, and active projects may publish several releases in a week, sometimes in a day.

The slow part is often not the project itself. It is the central package index in the middle: a formula, bucket, manifest, or package definition that has not caught up yet. eget is for that gap. If the release asset already exists, or the download URL can be described by a simple rule, eget can fetch and install it directly.

Go’s standard logging packages can write to an io.Writer, but they do not decide when a log file should rotate, how many old files to keep, or when disk usage should be capped. Once a service writes logs to local files, those details become part of the system.

github.com/gookit/rotatefile stays deliberately small: it provides an io.Writer with file rotation, gzip compression, and cleanup. You can keep using log/slog, log, zap, or gookit/slog; rotatefile only handles the file lifecycle.

GCli v3.8 is out. Since v3.5, the project has added friendlier argument parsing, richer struct binding, type-safe generic flag helpers, inherited command options, and built-in markdown/man-page generation.

If you maintain a nested CLI rather than a small command wrapper, this release is worth a closer look.