go-enum

An enum generator for go (by abice)

Go-enum Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to go-enum

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a better go-enum alternative or higher similarity.

go-enum discussion

Log in or Post with

go-enum reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-enum. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-12.
  • Enums in Go
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2024
    There's also https://github.com/abice/go-enum, which I decided to use after evaluating multiple such tools a while ago, but I don't remember exactly why it came out on top for me. Also, both (and others) have evolved since then, so things might have changed.

    One nice thing go-enum does is to even generate the consts, just from a list of values in a comment.

  • Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2023
    While not perfect, there are ways to generate enums automatically using go:generate, e.g. https://github.com/abice/go-enum
  • Go vs Rust
    2 projects | /r/golang | 6 Mar 2023
    I wouldn't write a macro to save a couple of lines, but I would definitely use (not even write, just use) a macro for something like generating enum [de]serialization for both JSON and BSON in one line. Go, even with generics, still has no way of abstracting extremely common patterns like enums without separate generator tools. Clearly someone thought the macro was useful here, but without a macro they had no choice but to write a separate tool.
  • Enums?
    1 project | /r/golang | 8 Feb 2023
    Ive found enums in Go are a pain point, especially across an organization because there are many valid ways to implement it. It's also fairly verbose to implement. The way Ive solved for it is code generation. This is a pretty good library that my team uses in production https://github.com/abice/go-enum
  • Why no enums?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 10 Nov 2022
    I've worked in a few different languages and Go doesn't seem all that unique in the way that it doesn't provide an ENUM primitive. However, I looked around a bit and found go-enum which seems pretty neat. Also, I have no problem writing a custom string or int/iota type. In some cases you want to be able to serialize/deserialize with them -- and in others you don't need that.
  • Does Go not have enums in the sense that I can use them as a type?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 12 Oct 2022
    Along that same line you can take it a step further and generate the iota block too with this tool https://github.com/abice/go-enum
  • How to do Enums in Go
    2 projects | /r/golang | 8 May 2021
    Looks like this does what you want: https://github.com/abice/go-enum
  • A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
    www.saashub.com | 11 Nov 2024
    SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives Learn more →

Stats

Basic go-enum repo stats
8
753
4.6
29 days ago

abice/go-enum is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of go-enum is Go.


Sponsored
CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers
Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.
coderabbit.ai

Did you konow that Go is
the 4th most popular programming language
based on number of metions?