Essential libraries for Go

Objectives

Goals

• All native Go library.
• Minimize use of external libraries (allowed packages: golang.org/x, github.com/golang).
• Separate interface from implementation.
• Safer code.
• Ease of development.

Core usecase

This library is intended to use a desktop or command-line applications, not on a server or IoT/mobile. The library may be optimized for that. For example, a target memory footprint may not exceed 1-2 GiB for a single instance.

Non-goals

• Performance (this is often trade-off to ease-of-development)
• Minimal footprints
• Compatibility (because this project is experimental)

Target platform

• Windows 10 or above (x64)
• Darwin (macOS) (x64, arm64)
• Linux (x64)

Structure

Naming

• All submodules should start with the prefix e. For example, if a sub-module is for logging, the name should be elog.