[aikah]

Go default flag package is pure garbage though. That's a fact. However, Go cross compilation makes it easy to develop multi-os CLI tools. The downside is the size of the executable, it's easy to reach the 50MB bar with Go binaries.

[skj]

Yes. The default "flag" package is trash. I like the Go team a lot, and I think they did a great job with many things, but it seems to me like they just said, "meh, get something that can work, usability is not something that matters."

[ptman]

consider the history, it probably makes sense if you're used to research unix and plan9

[integrii]

How exactly do you create a program in go that compiles to a 50mb exe?

Why is the flags package trash?