auxie

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Auxie

A collection of auxiliary types, methods, functions and other small useful things.

The name "Auxie" comes from the short name "AUX" which in its turn comes from a full word "Auxiliary". For historical reasons, the word "AUX" is forbidden for usage as a folder name in operating systems based on MS-DOS and Windows.

List of included libraries

1. Array Search – as – Various methods for searching in arrays.
2. Basic Types – BasicTypes – A collection of common sense basic types.
3. Bit – Bit – A simple library to work with bits in Go programming language.
4. BOM – BOM – Functions and methods to work with Unicode byte order mark.
5. Boolean – Boolean – A boolean-to-string parser.
6. Env – Env – A simple library to work with environment variables.
7. Errors – Errors – A simple library to work with built-in errors.
8. File – File – A simple library to work with files and folders.
9. HTTP Helper – HTTP Helper – A package that helps in processing and testing HTTP requests.
10. IPA – IPA – Methods to work with Internet Protocol Addresses.
11. NTS – NTS – Methods for processing null-terminated strings.
12. Number – Number – A simple library to work with numbers in Go programming language.
13. Random – Random – A simple library to work with random integer numbers.
14. Range – Range – Methods to work with ranges of floating point numbers.
15. Reader – Reader – Auxiliary methods and functions for reading.
16. ReaderSeeker – ReaderSeeker – An interface which combines io.Reader and io.Seeker interfaces.
17. RPoFS – RPoFS – Random Password of Fixed Size.
18. RS – RS – A Seeker extension to the reader package.
19. SAAC – SAAC – Simple Arithmetic Average Calculator.
20. SLReader – SLReader – A reader based on io.Reader and using speed limits.
21. SMA – SMA – Simple Moving Average.
22. SMS – SMS – Simple Merge Sorter.
23. Tester – Tester – Various useful functions to perform tests.
24. Time – Time – A simple library to work with time in Go programming language.
25. Time Metadata – Time Metadata – An auxiliary type for storing time of creation and time of update.
26. TSB – TSB – Tri-State Boolean.
27. Unicode – Unicode – Unicode symbols processing package.

Go language version

Code in this repository requires Go language version 1.20 or newer.

Microsoft Windows OS support

Go language 1.20 is the last version supported on old Windows operating systems.

As stated in release notes of Go 1.20 located at https://go.dev/doc/go1.20#windows,

Go 1.20 is the last release that will run on any release of Windows 7, 8, Server 2008 and Server 2012.

As stated in release notes of Go 1.21 located at https://go.dev/doc/go1.21#windows,

Go 1.21 requires at least Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016; support for previous versions has been discontinued.

Go language 1.21 provides some breaking changes, so do not rush into upgrading to it at any cost.