Why are enums not a thing in Go?

• go

  338 119,217 10.0 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 12 6.7 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)

• 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.

  

• enumcheck

  0 32 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 8 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

  1 268 6.2 Go

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

  Use a linter.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com

  sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

Suggest a related project