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— Mateusz Szostok

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I’ve been working with Go and Kubernetes since 2016. Playing around with IT since 2002.

I specialize in cloud-native topics, such as microservices, Kubernetes, Go, containers, GraphQL, gRPC, REST, and related.

My passion is developer tools with jazz for sharing knowledge through talks, blog posts, and workshops.

CLI version: a collection of handy tips

2022-09-23 — Written by Mateusz Szostok — 6 min read

Including version information in CLIs is as obvious as a shower after a 3-day music festival. But have you ever given it a second thought?

I researched 16 popular CLIs to find out how they approach this, and ultimately to come up with a solution that is both elegant and useful.

In this article, I present my findings and outline both the good and the bad of each approach.