Comparing Cobra to Alternatives

We will compare Cobra with some alternatives ways to parse command-line programs including the built-in ways Go provides as well as other third-party command-line parsing solutions.

Installing Cobra

First, we need to install Cobra. The official instructions recommend using the following command:

go get -u github.com/spf13/cobra/cobra

Unfortunately, this hangs indefinitely for me using Go 1.13.1. However, this command works:

go get -u github.com/spf13/cobra/cobra/...