Top 15 Go Decoding Projects

stegify

0 1,137 0.0 Go

🔍 Go tool for LSB steganography, capable of hiding any file within an image.
encoding

2 936 0.0 Go

Go package containing implementations of efficient encoding, decoding, and validation APIs.

Project mention: Rust vs. Go in 2023 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-13

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Further, Go refusing to have macros means that many libraries use reflection instead, which often makes those parts of the Go program perform no better than Python and in some cases worse. Rust can just generate all of that at compile time with macros, and optimize them with LLVM like any other code. Some Go libraries go to enormous lengths to reduce reflection overhead, but that's hard to justify for most things, and hard to maintain even once done. The legendary https://github.com/segmentio/encoding seems to be abandoned now and progress on Go JSON in general seems to have died with https://github.com/go-json-experiment/json .
Many people claiming their projects are IO-bound are just assuming that's the case because most of the time is spent in their input reader. If they actually measured they'd see it's not even saturating a 100Mbps link, let alone 1-100Gbps, so by definition it is not IO-bound. Even if they didn't need more throughput than that, they still could have put those cycles to better use or at worst saved energy. Isn't that what people like to say about Go vs Python, that Go saves energy? Sure, but it still burns a lot more energy than it would if it had macros.
Rust can use state-of-the-art memory allocators like mimalloc, while Go is still stuck on an old fork of tcmalloc, and not just tcmalloc in its original C, but transpiled to Go so it optimizes much less than LLVM would optimize it. (Many people benchmarking them forget to even try substitute allocators in Rust, so they're actually underestimating just how much faster Rust is)
Finally, even Go Generics have failed to improve performance, and in many cases can make it unimaginably worse through -- I kid you not -- global lock contention hidden behind innocent type assertion syntax: https://planetscale.com/blog/generics-can-make-your-go-code-...
It's not even close. There are many reasons Go is a lot slower than Rust and many of them are likely to remain forever. Most of them have not seen meaningful progress in a decade or more. The GC has improved, which is great, but that's not even a factor on the Rust side.
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dongle

0 795 0.0 Go

A simple, semantic and developer-friendly golang package for encoding&decoding and encryption&decryption
sttr

0 761 0.0 Go

cross-platform, cli app to perform various operations on string
go-geom

0 731 0.0 Go

Package geom implements efficient geometry types for geospatial applications.
form

0 650 4.4 Go

:steam_locomotive: Decodes url.Values into Go value(s) and Encodes Go value(s) into url.Values. Dual Array and Full map support. (by go-playground)
formam

0 182 0.0 Go

a package for decode form's values into struct in Go
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base64

0 174 0.0 Go

Faster base64 encoding for Go (by cristalhq)
go-webp

0 166 0.0 Go

Simple and fast webp library for golang
jx

0 139 0.0 Go

json encoding and decoding (by go-faster)
reisen

0 118 0.0 Go

A simple library to extract video and audio frames from media containers (based on libav).
polyline

0 93 0.0 Go

Package polyline implements a Google Maps Encoding Polyline encoder and decoder.
go-fixedwidth

0 78 0.0 Go

Encoding and decoding for fixed-width formatted data
fpdecimal

0 25 0.0 Go

🛫 Fixed-Point Decimals
redigo

0 2 1.8 Go

🔥 A Redis client for GoLang featuring Tags with Gob & JSON encoding. (by ainsleyclark)
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-08-13.

Index

What are some of the best open-source Decoding projects in Go? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	stegify	1,137
2	encoding	936
3	dongle	795
4	sttr	761
5	go-geom	731
6	form	650
7	formam	182
8	base64	174
9	go-webp	166
10	jx	139
11	reisen	118
12	polyline	93
13	go-fixedwidth	78
14	fpdecimal	25
15	redigo	2