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cobra
Go2015–2026
spf13 / cobra

cobra

A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

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42Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
44.8KGitHub stars
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A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:01:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year42 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-01-03 00:09:24 UTC to 2026-01-14 14:05:20 UTC.

024682015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order: - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter - https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows - https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools - https://godoc.org/github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing - https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options - https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String() - https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt - https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library - https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging - https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/t
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In How to start a Go project in 2023
I dug around my refs and I was about to recommend https://clig.dev/, but I see you've already found it. It's a great little reference to have when building a CLI. I typically read the code for other CLIs, particularly those written with the framework I'm using. The last framework I used was Cobra [0], and I studied how others did theirs: - https://cs.github.com/?scopeName=All+repos&scope=&q=github.c... [0]: https://github.com/spf13/cobra
In Ask HN: Why is there no specification for Command Line Interfaces?

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