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charmbracelet/gum

Gum is a command-line interface toolkit designed to enhance shell scripts with interactive terminal components. It provides a suite of utilities for capturing user input, formatting and styling text, managing file selections, and rendering structured data like tables. The system also supports logging, status indicators, and shell autocompletion, enabling developers to build more polished and user-friendly CLI applications.

64.5

Adequate · 1 August 2026

5k

lines of production code

Go

primary language

2

bus factor · 76 authors in all

3

measurements over time

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How it got here

2022 · Gum CLI expansion and tooling

The project underwent a comprehensive rebranding from 'Soda Pop' to 'Gum', accompanied by a significant expansion of its command set. This period focused on adding diverse interactive CLI tools, including text input, file selection, and table rendering, while establishing robust build infrastructure and dependency management.

20 changes

2023–2024 · CLI command expansion and TTY utilities

This period focused on expanding the command-line interface with new features, including cursor mode configuration, structured logging capabilities, and version checking. Additionally, internal utilities were introduced to handle terminal output more robustly by stripping ANSI escape sequences when necessary.

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 1 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
  • Measured at commit 716d8b5d02 — the exact code this score is about.
  • Scored under rubric rubric-2026.08.18. Score the same commit under that rubric and you get the same number.
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