[Gualdrapo]

How come so many people is writing cli programs in Go? What happened to C?

[qudat]

At least for SSH apps that run TUI programs the answer is obvious: golang implements the SSH protocol as a library. It is probably one of the greatest features of the stdlib.

We're building a lot of SSH apps over at https://pico.sh

[mattlondon]

Golang was conceived to address the rough edges people found using C, so I guess working as intended?

[swah]

Nowadays I guess interactive ones are easier on Python or Go, and super fast ones (ripgrep, fzf) in Rust or Zig.

[Philip-J-Fry]

It's pretty funny that your preconceptions led you to believe fzf was written in Rust or Zig.

[swah]

Hah great point..

[apitman]

Honestly I thought it was too, and I mostly write Go.

[adhamsalama]

fzf is written in Go, isn't it?

[fmbb]

Yes, fzf is a Go program.

[danielvaughn]

Charm provides an excellent suite of tools for building TUIs; bubble tea is only one of them. It’s gotten me interested in building CLI programs, as an anecdote.

[sim7c00]

curses is well... curses. i try rust now. might also try go, then when those fail go back to C :D