[renekooi]

Another ASCII art weather (forecast) utility, but in Go: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

[iamcurious]

Unlike the main post, this is a good use of ASCII art. i.e. to show a drawing/symbol not to make numbers more difficult to parse...

[flaie]

This is much much better. Closer to "beautiful" than the one featured here.

[lectrick]

Yeah, it's beautiful if

1) you think mutable variables are beautiful

2) you think stuffing everything into one file is beautiful

3) you think defining functions at the root namespace is beautiful

4) you think consecutive repeated property accesses stuffed into a consecutively repeating boolean check like this are beautiful: if h.Time == "0" || h.Time == "100" || h.Time == "200" || h.Time == "300" || h.Time == "400" || h.Time == "500" || h.Time == "600" || h.Time == "700" || h.Time == "1400" || h.Time == "1500" || h.Time == "1600" || h.Time == "2300"

5) if you think embedding ANSI color codes across all strings instead of centralizing all that ugliness somewhere is beautiful

6) if you think not separating your command-line-handling code from your problem-modeling code is beautiful (see: Hexagonal Architecture http://alistair.cockburn.us/Hexagonal+architecture)

7) If you think having no fucking test suite to speak of, given all that mangled mutating code is beautiful (to me this is the MOST egregious non-beautiful thing in the entire "project")

Then, yes. WeGo is beautiful.

Frankly I'm shocked that what people call "beautiful" can differ that fucking much.

[djm_]

Can anyone explain why a dependency of this app is a "working Go environment"? I thought one of golang's selling points was the fact that it created a simple binary.

As far as I can tell, the Go environment is simply being used as a cheap installer, is that correct?

[fit2rule]

In my opinion its more like: Go comes with a package-management/install system onboard, and for every 'go install', there's a full copy of working sources which someone, some day, might consider reading and contributing to ..

So I think, at least as a go newbie, that its quite handy that pretty much every tool I might be interested in - because it was written in Go - comes with full sources onboard as a basic, starting-gate, expectation. At least, I am quite happy to be learning Go this way ..

[laumars]

Because he's sharing the source code rather than a compiled binary. It's no different to having make + gcc listed as a dependency for C++ code.

[ZenSwordArts]

Wow thanks for sharing.. this is really is beautiful!

[tacticiankerala]

That's really mind blowing! Thanks for sharing this.

[fit2rule]

Thanks, wego is very beautiful and quite useful!