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 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/vbauerster/mpb/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/vbauerster/mpb)
 
 **mpb** is a Go lib for rendering progress bars in terminal applications.
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-It is inspired by [uiprogress](https://github.com/gosuri/uiprogress) library,
-but unlike the last one, implementation is mutex free, following Go's idiom:
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-> Don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating.
 
 ## Features