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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Show Notes:

How Anchor developed a CLI and the tools that helped along the way.

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