LFlfx·Oct 21, 2025Submission
Eget: Easy pre-built binary installation from GitHub
18 points · Open discussionzyedidia
eget
Go2022–2025
zyedidia / eget
eget
Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.
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8Mentions
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2.1KGitHub stars
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What it is
Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.
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Observed mentions: 2022-05-21 20:26:02 UTC to 2025-10-21 21:33:37 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesI personally use eget for this usecase. Might be worth a look: https://github.com/zyedidia/eget
In Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOSThis seems to be similar to eget: https://github.com/zyedidia/eget
eget was developed by the same person like the micro terminal text editor.
In Gah – CLI to install software from GitHub ReleasesThere's also https://github.com/zyedidia/eget, which is also written in Go.
In Gah – CLI to install software from GitHub ReleasesI love these tools. A few more I like are:
eget - good for getting these little tools (https://github.com/zyedidia/eget)
dust - fd is to find as dust is to du (https://github.com/bootandy/dust)
yank - nice to quickly copy things from the command line (https://github.com/mptre/yank)
In Command Line Tools I Like (2022)I'm a huge fan of asdf and have been using for years together with direnv! It's great to see how much effort is put into it! I hope more people adopt it so that we don't have to `curl | sh`! One thing I have issues with asdf is security as are no checksums, so, you if I project get compromised you'll get compromised, too. This, of course, is in addition to the third-party asdf plugin getting itself compromised (which is the greater risk). Last, but not least - I wish asdf came with something like eget [0] incorporated so that it can install 99% of the plugins directly and safely! Last, but not least - 99% of the plugins have almost identical code and all that changes is the repo, so, this should be generalized. For example, many years ago I made just one codebase of all HashiCorp plugins [1] and it's been working great!
[0]: https://githu
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