Rusty enums in Go

• go-sumtype

  11 403 0.0 Go

  A simple utility for running exhaustiveness checks on Go "sum types."

A Google search for golang sum types currently shows my project as a second hit: https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype

• exhaustive

  11 268 6.2 Go

  Check exhaustiveness of switch statements of enum-like constants in Go source code.

I tried to find that linter and found this: exhaustive

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• go

  2,067 119,397 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

Really, the way Go interfaces silently collapse is unthinkably insane if you really look at it, and the only mitigation is that we just accept the idea that interfaces can never change once they're first created, which leads to other insane design choices like http.ResponseController, a stark admission that interface evolution is impossible, and a precedent that other interfaces are likely to follow.

• enumcheck

  3 32 0.0 Go

  Allows to mark Go enum types as exhaustive.

  

You can write a linter that checks for exhaustiveness. I wrote a proof-of-concept some time ago: https://github.com/loov/enumcheck... so probably doesn't work with generics.

Suggest a related project