README
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fmtless: All the convenience of fmt without the bloat
by Cathal Garvey, ©2016, Released under the GNU AGPLv3 or later
Why Avoid fmt?
The fmt library is a super-rich way to present and parse data
in your Go application. I love fmt; everyone loves fmt!
However, fmt is really big, adding a large premium to output
binaries. For straight compilation to static binaries, this isn't
usually a dealbreaker (cf. the success of Go overall).
However, in edge-cases, like embedding Go in storage-constrained
devices, or shipping a collection of small apps in Go, or when
transpiling to JS, the
premium can be really costly. In my own experience, removing fmt
from a GopherJS application removed 0.5Mb from the output Javascript,
which can be a huge deal when shipping JS.
Most fmt imports seem to use it only for output, or for errors.
So, fmtless is a toolkit for rapidly porting software using fmt
for output and errors, hopefully only requiring a single-line change:
instead of import "fmt", just do import "github.com/cathalgarvey/fmtless"!
fmtless also has mirrors of Go's standard libraries with fmt replaced
with fmtless, to reduce binary size. Try switching over and see if it
makes a difference to your application!
At present the included stdlibs in this repo are lifted directly from my local install. In the future I plan to have a script pull chosen libraries directly from the most recent tag/release of Go and converts them.
Usage
Right now, it's just replace fmt with github.com/cathalgarvey/fmtless.
For stdlibs, likewise, it's just "prepend your stdlib imports with
github.com/cathalgarvey/fmtless". Currently supported:
encoding/json(was only using stdlibs for errors)encoding/xml(was only using stdlibs for errors)net/url(was only using stdlibs for errors)
Documentation
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Index ¶
- func Errorf(format string, a ...interface{}) error
- func Print(a ...interface{}) (n int, err error)
- func Printf(format string, a ...interface{}) (n int, err error)
- func Println(a ...interface{}) (n int, err error)
- func SRepeat(char string, repeat int) string
- func Sprint(a ...interface{}) string
- func Sprintf(fmts string, args ...interface{}) string
- func Sprintln(a ...interface{}) string
Constants ¶
This section is empty.
Variables ¶
This section is empty.
Functions ¶
func Print ¶
Print formats using the default formats for its operands and writes to standard output. Spaces are added between operands when neither is a string. It returns the number of bytes written and any write error encountered.
func Println ¶
Println formats using the default formats for its operands and writes to standard output. Spaces are always added between operands and a newline is appended. It returns the number of bytes written and any write error encountered.
func Sprint ¶
func Sprint(a ...interface{}) string
Sprint renders arguments in their default format ("%s"/"%d"/"%f"/"%U" for string/int/float/rune, respectively)
Types ¶
This section is empty.
Source Files
Directories
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encoding
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json
Package json implements encoding and decoding of JSON objects as defined in RFC 4627.
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Package json implements encoding and decoding of JSON objects as defined in RFC 4627. |
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xml
Package xml implements a simple XML 1.0 parser that understands XML name spaces.
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Package xml implements a simple XML 1.0 parser that understands XML name spaces. |
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net
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url
Package url parses URLs and implements query escaping.
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Package url parses URLs and implements query escaping. |