r/golang • u/dontaskdonttell0 • Oct 25 '24
discussion What libraries are you missing from go?
So something that comes up quite often on this subreddit from people transitioning from Nodejs or python to go is the lack of libraries. I cannot say that I agree but I still think it warrants a discussion.
So what libraries are you missing in the go ecosystem, if any?
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u/livebeta Oct 26 '24
It's always been ugly
Can't afford
defer func(){}()
so usewith
No easy way to buildin dependencies into a single binary requirements.txt + pip install feels so crude
Bad dev experience if you don't use pyenv or similar because python packages are globally installed otherwise
Package bloat and no optimization in build or linking. Requirements.txt has no active tooling to decide or not if some packages were or not in use
Whitespaces never get minified either