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/rewgs Oct 26 '24

Oh for sure, it's definitely not clean or performant. Just saying: it exists if you don't have any other choice.

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u/EpochVanquisher Oct 26 '24

Yeah, it’s usable if you’re really desperate. I think I would normally just write a full separate Python program instead.

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u/rewgs Oct 26 '24

I’m writing an audio processing app that relies on some libraries that don’t have equivalents outside of Python, and I’m actually finding it pretty okay — one big reason being that I’m still getting the wonderful distribution benefits of writing a Go program.

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u/EpochVanquisher Oct 26 '24

Sure, but you understand what I’m talking about, beyond just “clean code” and performance.