INintegrii·Sep 17, 2025Submission
Flaggy package updated for first time since 2022 because of AI
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flaggy
Go2018–2025
integrii / flaggy
flaggy
Idiomatic Go input parsing with subcommands, positional values, and flags at any position. No required project or package layout and no external dependencies.
2Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
956GitHub stars
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What it is
Idiomatic Go input parsing with subcommands, positional values, and flags at any position. No required project or package layout and no external dependencies.
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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2018-07-13 07:21:52 UTC to 2025-09-17 05:45:20 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesI wrote my own flags package called flaggy and think its the easiest to use and makes the most sense! Up to 600 stars om github now.
https://github.com/integrii/flaggy
In Diving into Go by building a CLI applicationInfinitely recursive and idiomatic subcommand and input parsing for go
2 points · Open discussionShow HN: Flaggy – Super idiomatic subcommands for Go
8 points · Open discussionShowHN: Flaggy - A fresh take on Go subcommands and flags
3 points · Open discussionFlaggy: Idiomatic Go input parsing with subcommands and flags at any position
1 points · Open discussion