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Life & fun · November 30, 2017

Survey - Interactive prompts in Go with full Windows support

A golang library for building interactive and accessible prompts with full support for windows and posix terminals. - AlecAivazis/survey

Survey - Interactive prompts in Go with full Windows support launched on November 30, 2017 with 11 votes, #1,019 of 3,137 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

In plain words

Survey is a Go library that enables developers to create interactive command-line prompts with complete Windows compatibility. It allows programmers to build conversational interfaces within terminal applications using Go, with features designed to work reliably across Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The library is useful for anyone building CLI tools that need user input through interactive questions and selections.

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