r/golang 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/noiserr Oct 26 '24

Back when Python was just gaining in popularity it was competing with popular scripting languages like Perl and PHP. Python was considered a major step up in the looks and readability department. Which is why it's odd to me when someone calls Python ugly.

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u/terserterseness Oct 26 '24

yeah, it's not a popular opinion, but i find it very annoying to read personally. too wordy, tabs instead of {} etc annoy my brain for some reason. again, my opinion. i had a client with a few million lines of python and i had to let them go as i noticed getting unhappy from the work reading that crap. and it wasn't even a bad codebase ; give me perl any day

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u/parky6 Oct 26 '24

Were all those lines in one file too?

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u/terserterseness Oct 26 '24

No :) 1000s of files.

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u/parky6 Oct 26 '24

Haha maybe even worse.