🐹 Golang Command Line Tools Raised 6 Million Dollars

Tom Smykowski
6 min readNov 8, 2023

If you like terminals it’s your sign that Go may soon, if not already, become a “Go”-to language to build jaw dropping command line tools

Some of you may know a project called Charm. It started four years ago with the hands of Toby Padilla, who worked, among others at Last.fm and Christian Rocha working for example for Zenly.

Charm once in a while pops up here and there, and it’s quite interesting project.

But how is it possible that command line tool raises 6 million dollar? Isn’t Bash enought?

One of the absolutely fantastic examples of capabilities of command line for me is Lynx.

It is a command line browser. Yes. You read it correctly. You can browse the Internet with your terminal.

To my amusement it works great with modern websites. Just look how my website looks like:

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Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.