Golang’s best-kept secret: ‘executable examples’

1. rebecca

   1 1 114 10.0 Go

   Rebecca is a readme generator for Go (by dave)

   

   Check out my https://github.com/dave/rebecca package for a neat way of building readme docs by embedding Go docs and examples. It generates the readme for https://github.com/dave/jennifer (see https://github.com/dave/jennifer/blob/master/README.md.tpl).

2. Stream

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3. jennifer

   2 6 3,516 2.1 Go

   Jennifer is a code generator for Go

   

   Check out my https://github.com/dave/rebecca package for a neat way of building readme docs by embedding Go docs and examples. It generates the readme for https://github.com/dave/jennifer (see https://github.com/dave/jennifer/blob/master/README.md.tpl).

4. go

   3 2,277 128,914 10.0 Go

   The Go programming language

   

   Golang has some undocumented features, some more obscure than others. I didn't know about this one at all, but I knew this one: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14715

5. CPython

   4 1,521 67,864 10.0 Python

   The Python programming language

   

   Since 2001, it seems: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.11/Lib/doctest.py#L...

6. golangci-lint

   5 80 17,329 9.8 Go

   Fast linters runner for Go

   

   Note that without the `Output:` line you can silently not be running these tests - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/issues/3084 covers when this can be problematic and there's now a golangci-lint integrated linter for catching it

7. InfluxDB

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