cli

  • 1st July 2026

eget: install GitHub releases without waiting for a central index

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.

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  • 22nd June 2026

GCli v3.8: shared options, doc generation, and safer binding

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.

GCli v3.8 release poster

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  • 6th June 2026

GCli v3.5 release: shell completion, command middleware, grouped help and more

GCli is a command-line application and tool library for Go. This post covers the main changes from v3.3.1 to the recently released v3.5, including the v3.4 cycle.

These updates focus on developer experience and underlying stability. If you write CLI tools in Go, a few of these features are worth upgrading for.

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  • 9th July 2022

cflag - wraps and extends Go flag build pertty CLI command

cflag - wraps and extends Go flag build pertty CLI command

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