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.
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | It's Go Time! | 00:47 |
| 2 | 00:47 | Sponsor: Fly | 02:29 |
| 3 | 03:16 | Intro | 02:52 |
| 4 | 06:08 | Setting out to build | 07:59 |
| 5 | 14:08 | Network calls | 07:09 |
| 6 | 21:17 | Sponsor: JetBrains | 03:10 |
| 7 | 24:28 | Versioning | 01:53 |
| 8 | 26:21 | Next step | 03:37 |
| 9 | 29:58 | CLI | 07:04 |
| 10 | 37:03 | From Ruby to Go | 04:50 |
| 11 | 41:53 | Words of wisdom | 03:21 |
| 12 | 45:13 | Sponsor: Retool | 01:44 |
| 13 | 46:57 | Unpopular Opinions! | 00:34 |
| 14 | 47:31 | Wesley's first unpop | 05:31 |
| 15 | 53:02 | Wesley's second unpop | 03:35 |
| 16 | 56:37 | Outro | 01:04 |