go-slices vs be

go-slices

Process typed Go slices via generics and higher-order functions. (by tideland)

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The Go test helper for minimalists (by earthboundkid)

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go-slices		be
	Project
2	Mentions	7
8	Stars	90
-	Growth	-
3.2	Activity	6.5
11 months ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Go	Language	Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	MIT License

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go-slices

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-slices. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-20.

Convenient slice handling with generics? See Tideland Go Slices
1 project | /r/golang | 21 Aug 2022

https://github.com/tideland/go-slices for the code.
Have you used generics?
8 projects | /r/golang | 20 Aug 2022

Just releasing a flexible package for the management of slices, see https://github.com/tideland/go-slices. Especially data collections may use generics in a helpful and positive way.

be

Posts with mentions or reviews of be. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-16.

New version of minimal test helper "be" with golden file support
1 project | /r/golang | 2 Jun 2023
What libraries are missing?
13 projects | /r/golang | 16 Dec 2022
The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know
6 projects | /r/golang | 13 Dec 2022

For testing, use be
Libraries you use most of your projects?
30 projects | /r/golang | 2 Nov 2022
Have you used generics?
8 projects | /r/golang | 20 Aug 2022

I made a package like that: https://github.com/carlmjohnson/be. It’s probably my most frequent use of generics.
alecthomas/assert: A minimalist type-safe drop-in replacement for testify/require
4 projects | /r/golang | 9 Apr 2022

I spent the last week working on one of these: https://github.com/carlmjohnson/be. Some initial thoughts I have are that the error messages basically don’t matter because if the test fails you’re going to dig into the line where the failure happens anyway.
Minimalist generic testing helper for Go 1.18+
1 project | /r/golang | 3 Apr 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-slices and be you can also consider the following projects:

genericset - simple map-based implementation of generic set in go

graph - A library for creating generic graph data structures and modifying, analyzing, and visualizing them.

scan - Scan provides the ability to to scan sql rows directly to any defined structure.

GoAws - AWS (SQS/SNS) Clone for Development testing

requests - HTTP requests for Gophers

assert - A simple assertion library using Go generics

gonum - Gonum is a set of numeric libraries for the Go programming language. It contains libraries for matrices, statistics, optimization, and more

dockertest - Write better integration tests! Dockertest helps you boot up ephermal docker images for your Go tests with minimal work.

oapi-codegen - Generate Go client and server boilerplate from OpenAPI 3 specifications

resty - Simple HTTP and REST client library for Go