Thanks for citing mow.cli [1] and glad you're liking it! And you are spot-on regarding closures: it was a design choice made expressly for the purpose of being

Thanks for citing mow.cli [1] and glad you're liking it! And you are spot-on regarding closures: it was a design choice made expressly for the purpose of being able to: - scope command specific flag and args, instead of having one giant catch-all context map - declare real and typed Go variables instead of something like context.String("--option") - use the same pattern as the flag std package (flag.Bool, etc.) which I liked a lot Disclaimer: I am the author of mow.cli [1] https://github.com/jawher/mow.cli https://github.com/jawher/mow.cli