A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence

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Post by ktr0731 » Mon, Apr 14, 2025, 3:14 PM UTC

A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence
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Re: A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence

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Post by nzach » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 1:04 PM UTC

This seems to be a better alternative: https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go

Re: A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence

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Post by dblooman » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 1:41 PM UTC

nzach wrote: post #2

This seems to be a better alternative: https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go

Have used this for a hackday recently, found it easy to use, even for a complete newcomer.

Re: A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence

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Post by boomskats » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 2:14 PM UTC

nzach wrote: post #2

This seems to be a better alternative: https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go

Yeah, mcp-go is a pretty well known project (i know it from godoc-mcp), but I don't know whether 'better' is the right word.

It looks like it's a case of builder pattern/runtime validated vs codegen/typed. The readme doesn't reference mcp-go by name, but it does lead with 'type-safe, intuitive', which could be a poke at it?

Re: A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence

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Post by whydid » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 3:06 PM UTC

Whenever I see this many emojis in a readme, I assume the entire project was written by AI.

Re: A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence

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Post by peterldowns » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 3:09 PM UTC

whydid wrote: post #5

Whenever I see this many emojis in a readme, I assume the entire project was written by AI.

Or, worse, an npm-infected frontend engineer. It's like a mindvirus in that ecosystem.

Re: A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence

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Post by peterldowns » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 3:10 PM UTC

boomskats wrote: post #4

nzach wrote: post #2

This seems to be a better alternative: https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go

Yeah, mcp-go is a pretty well known project (i know it from godoc-mcp), but I don't know whether 'better' is the right word. It looks like it's a case of builder pattern/runtime validated vs codegen/typed. The readme doesn't reference mcp-go by name, but it does lead with 'type-safe, intuitive', which could be a poke at it?

Do you know of anything that will autogen a golang mcp server from an OpenAPI spec? Seems completely do-able, and I'll write a tool for this myself if it doesn't already exist.

Re: A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence

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Post by ra7 » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 4:03 PM UTC

nzach wrote: post #2

This seems to be a better alternative: https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go

Looks like there's also an official Go SDK coming soon, likely based on mark3labs/mcp-go. Proposal: https://github.com/orgs/modelcontextprotocol/discussions/224

Re: A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

peterldowns wrote: post #6

whydid wrote: post #5

Whenever I see this many emojis in a readme, I assume the entire project was written by AI.

Or, worse, an npm-infected frontend engineer. It's like a mindvirus in that ecosystem.

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Re: A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence

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Post by ramesh31 » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 4:44 PM UTC

whydid wrote: post #5

Whenever I see this many emojis in a readme, I assume the entire project was written by AI.

>"Whenever I see this many emojis in a readme, I assume the entire project was written by AI."

What difference does that make? Have you read the code and formulated an actual criticism, or is this just kneejerk "AI bad"?