decimal
Arbitrary-precision fixed-point decimal numbers in Go (by shopspring)
chi
lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services (by go-chi)
| decimal | chi | |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 101 | |
| 5,945 | 17,113 | |
| 2.0% | 1.5% | |
| 7.4 | 7.1 | |
| 11 days ago | 25 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
decimal
Posts with mentions or reviews of decimal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-01.
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Trouble understanding rounding when the next digit is after round precision is a #5?
Try it in JS with console.log(4.225 * 100);, you'll see the same unexpected result. Depending on your needs, it's actually fine to just be off by some amount. If it does really matter, then use an arbitrary precision library like https://github.com/shopspring/decimal to get the results you need.
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Handling currency values: facts and best practices
Most programming languages ( JavaScript, PHP, Go, Python, Java, C# ) have built-in support or 3rd-party libraries for handling this data type, even though the internal implementations can differ:
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Any go and python number experts here?
while working with money, dont use floats, use something like https://github.com/shopspring/decimal (go std lib doesnt have its own decimals yet)
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my first golang project!
Integers, or something like this: https://github.com/shopspring/decimal
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80x improvements in caching by moving from JSON to gob
I make heavy use of caching, and was caching both in-memory and in Redis using JSON to convert the data in to a string. The struct itself isn't super complicated, one level nested, and some fields use the shopspring/decimal library.
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Unexported interfaces usage question
I actually use this to represent monetary values btw :)
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How to round(2) float64?
Check out https://github.com/shopspring/decimal for doing money related calculations.
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Library recommendation -- money calculations, more accurate handling of floats
We personally use https://github.com/shopspring/decimal and it works well.
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What are your favorite packages to use?
decimal, one of the first Go library that created to work with decimal and monetary value.
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What libraries from other languages do you wish were ported over into go?
https://github.com/shopspring/decimal also.
chi
Posts with mentions or reviews of chi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-30.
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Deploy a Golang serverless function for a demo form with htmx
I use go-chi for handling routes and to server static file(stylesheet).
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Preventing SQL Injection with Golang
This will be the structure of our project, we will use PostgreSQL as the database, go chi to create our endpoints, go dot env to import our environment variables.
- Chi: Lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services
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Build a Golang Todo App Backend: A Step-by-Step Guide
go-chi: is a lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services.
- Evitando SQL Injection com Golang
- API completa em Golang - Parte 2
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API completa em Golang - Parte 1
Go Chi para criar nossas rotas
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newbie here looking for a framework
For HTTP I'd look at Chi https://github.com/go-chi/chi
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The Gorilla web toolkit project is being revived, all repos are out of archive mode.
In fact, it has zero dependencies outside of std lib in it's core: https://github.com/go-chi/chi/blob/master/go.mod
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is it possible to limit the body param size for all routes in net/http i'm also using go-chi
Interesting. go-chi added it as a middleware 4 months ago, but its not in the module docs since they haven't tagged a version since Dec 2022: https://github.com/go-chi/chi/blob/master/middleware/request_size.go
What are some alternatives?
When comparing decimal and chi you can also consider the following projects:
Golang Crypto Trading Bot - A golang implementation of a console-based trading bot for cryptocurrency exchanges
Gin - Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.
decimal - A high-performance, arbitrary-precision, floating-point decimal library.
Echo - High performance, minimalist Go web framework
go-money - Go implementation of Fowler's Money pattern
mux - A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍
go-finance - :warning: Deprecrated in favor of https://github.com/piquette/finance-go
Fiber - ⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
httprouter - A high performance HTTP request router that scales well
apd - Arbitrary-precision decimals for Go
go-kit - A standard library for microservices.