Show HN: Dave – CLI Personal assistant written in Go

Not the OP, but Go also has those libraries, and it compiles to a single binary. This means I can write a tool and give it to you without needing to worry if you have the right version of Python installed, etc. Further, I can trivially cross-compile (if you're on Linux/ARM, I can build a binary for you on my Macbook via `GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go build <project>`).

Hi, I'm the author. I'm still new to Go, so I haven't gone so far to check web applications let's say.

I think a CLI would be the closest thing for me right now to start with. And I really wanted a way to block websites and add reminder quickly. Since I work as a programmer I always have a terminal open so it made sense for me. In the end, it was just a simple way to start learning Go.

My team all use macOS, so it was really easy for me to write a CLI in Go (this library [1] is great), and then run

  go install

to create a full-contained binary that I could distribute to everyone. People can put the binary somewhere on their PATH, for example: `/usr/local/bin`, and then be able to run it like any other shell command.

If you already have python installed then it isn't too much trouble to run a .py file by doing

  python mycli.py

But if you have a bin on your PATH you could just run

  mycli

without having to install Go or any of the dependancies because they're bundled up in the binary.

edit: I should add that it is possible to cross-compile with Go, so if someone on my team wasn't on the same OS as me I could support them as well

[1] https://github.com/urfave/cli

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