I ported significant portions of D ranges and algorithms to Go

Tejas notrealemail at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 16:34:49 UTC 2022


On Wednesday, 8 June 2022 at 16:27:01 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> Hello there! I mentioned this previously to Andrei in an email 
> as something I was experimenting with for fun. I have ported 
> significant portions of D ranges and algorithms to Go, as Go 
> 1.18 added pretty decent generic typing. Here it is: 
> https://github.com/w0rp/ranges
>
> I didn't implement every function there is, and I limited my 
> initial push of what to implement to InputRange and 
> ForwardRange alone. The README documents the limitations in Go, 
> and one thing I consider an advantage. Generally what you can 
> do in Go will never be as powerful as D's complete template 
> meta-programming functionality, but it is interesting to see 
> just how much can be represented in Go.
>
> Maybe there is something or other in here that someone can 
> learn something from. I just did it entirely for a laugh and to 
> play around with how generics work in Go in a serious way.
>
> Enjoy!

Posts like these belong in the 
[Announce](https://forum.dlang.org/group/announce) part of the 
forums, I believe.

Cool project though, haven't ever used Go, so maybe I'll take a 
look at it :)


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