Setting out to build

Episode Summary

With the number of libraries available to Go developers these days, you’d think building a CLI app was now a trivial matter. But like many things in software development, it depends. In this episode, we explore the challenges that arose during one team’s journey towards a production-ready CLI. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Featuring:Wesley Beary – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInJohnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteShow Notes: How Anchor developed a CLI and the tools that helped along the way. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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  • It's Go Time!
  • Sponsor: Fly
  • Intro
  • Network calls
  • Sponsor: JetBrains
  • Versioning
  • Next step
  • CLI
  • From Ruby to Go
  • Words of wisdom
  • Sponsor: Retool
  • Unpopular Opinions!
  • Wesley's first unpop
  • Wesley's second unpop
  • Outro


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