wego

I’ve used Wego [0] for roughly a decade. It’s been good enough for me. Six years in, I had to edit the configuration file once (to switch weather backends because the default backend shut down). In January, it’ll be 10 years. [0]: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

I didn't know either! Searching for "wego weather" shows this CLI: https://github.com/schachmat/wego Reading the readme for chubin/wttr.in also clarifies what "wego" is: > wttr.in uses wego for visualization and various data sources for weather forecast information. "wego" in that sentence is also linked to schachmat/wego so seems to confirm is that one.

I guess it is based on https://github.com/schachmat/wego

You might want to use wego[1] directly if you're interested in weather reports in your terminal, if the dependencies aren't an issue. [1] https://github.com/schachmat/wego

the CLI application[1] that this is based on has an "emoji" frontend[2] that does just that 1: https://github.com/schachmat/wego 2: http://cl.ly/1w3b45242k3R

It's actually a web frontend for a CLI application: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm personally a fan of the style, and like explicitly seeing where the fault points in functions are, rather than having to memorize what exceptions might get thrown by what. But it can definitely cover many complex situations. That sucks to see people making a mess with error handling code, but there are examples of good uses out there. This [0] is one I quickly found. [0] https://github.com/schachmat/wego/blob/master/we.go

So request a binary then. You're basically moaning that an open source project is shipping source code. And FYI, Go is in quite a few distro repos so you might be able to just: apt-get install go-lang mkdir -p ~/go/src ~go/bin export GOPATH=~/go go get github.com/schachmat/wego go install github.com/schachmat/wego However considering this is an open source CLI tool, I don't think it's at all unreasonable to expect he user to do a bit more manual work to compile and run this tool from the command line. In fact, quite frankly, I find it rather disgusting that someone should share their work and source code like this and have others moan simply because they're too bloody lazy to compile it themselves. I mean seriously guys, this is Hacker News, not PC World Magazine.

Strictly there is a little hindrance for the non-gopher user because this won't work until they set up a Go workspace, i.e. decided where they want GOPATH to be, set that, and added $GOPATH/bin to PATH to have the executable be runnable. $ env -i $(which go) get github.com/schachmat/wego package github.com/schachmat/wego: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

Another ASCII art weather (forecast) utility, but in Go: https://github.com/schachmat/wego