betteralign VS dst

Compare betteralign vs dst and see what are their differences.

betteralign

Make your Go programs use less memory (maybe) (by dkorunic)

dst

Decorated Syntax Tree - manipulate Go source with perfect fidelity. (by dave)
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betteralign dst
3 2
471 1,213
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6.2 0.0
5 days ago 7 months ago
Go Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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betteralign

Posts with mentions or reviews of betteralign. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.

dst

Posts with mentions or reviews of dst. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.
  • betteralign - structs field alignment static analyzer for Go
    8 projects | /r/golang | 22 Mar 2023
    Retaining comments has been done with using DST (Decorated Syntax Tree) with decorating regular AST. Sadly when using DST we cannot use "fix" mode with SuggestedFixes, but we have to print whole DST to retain decorations. Leading/ending comment positioning isn't well retained in some cases and it's still a work in progress.
  • Rewriting Go source code with AST tooling
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Oct 2021
    Go AST was never really designed for re-writing of the source. Comments are stored by their byte offset instead of attached to nodes, so re-arranging nodes breaks the output...

    Check out my dst (decorated syntax tree) library: it allows you to manipulate Go source without breaking the comments and line-feeds:

    https://github.com/dave/dst

What are some alternatives?

When comparing betteralign and dst you can also consider the following projects:

wastedassign - Go Linter: finds wasted assignment statements 🗑

goimports - [mirror] Go Tools

structslop - structslop is a static analyzer for Go that recommends struct field rearrangements to provide for maximum space/allocation efficiency.

go - The Go programming language

maligned - Tool to detect Go structs that would take less memory if their fields were sorted.