codegangsta

Yup. Making the "dropping in" part easy is partly why Martini can be kept clean on the number of dependencies it pulls in. The only external dependency on Martini is https://github.com/codegangsta/inject which I maintain anyway :)

Thanks for the feedback! I knew from the beginning that I didn't want to create another clone framework. The Golang community needs something that is in line with it's own philosophies.

Author here. Super flattered to see all the feedback coming in. I built this package to suit my own picky needs.

Martini is meant to be non-intrusive and braindead simple to use. Hope you guys like it!

Blog author here. Long story short I got frustrated with distributing Ruby cli apps and decided to switch to Go for speed and distribution.

I also created a nice cli library built on top of the Go flag package. I've been having a lot of fun in Go so far and encourage anyone who hasn't given it a shot to try it out.

https://github.com/codegangsta/cli

That is definitely an option, and it is essentially what we did for our linux support when we were building out a cross platform toolchain for mobile games. The tricky part was supporting Windows, Linux, and Mac all at once. Again, not suprised that distribution was hard, there were just a couple things that made distribution in Ruby a more painful experience

Supported architectures listed here: http://golang.org/doc/install#requirements