Why are enums not a thing in Go?

• go

  587 116,030 9.9 Go

  The Go programming language

  

  There have been many proposals to add enums. The earliest I found is this (2017), but they are still debating if it's worth "the complexity".

• enumeration

  0 10 0.0 Go

  Enumerations for Go - a really useful yet easy-to-use code generator (by rickb777)

  I regularly use a tool I maintain (that I derived from others' work) that generates the enums I need for me. (https://github.com/rickb777/enumeration)

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• enumcheck

  1 29 0.0 Go

  Allows to mark Go enum types as exhaustive.

  

  closed set of enumerated values/types; use a linter, e.g. enumcheck

• texpack

  0 7 10.0 Go

  Texture packer with image, font and sdf support.

  

  enumerated set based on file tree; similarly, code generator can help (e.g. see texture packing)

• exhaustive

  5 251 0.0 Go

  Check exhaustiveness of switch statements of enum-like constants.

  Use a linter.

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