Underscore.go

Underscore was chosen in JS presumably because it is a valid variable name that isn&#x27;t used for anything. Underscore in Go actually means something, which is why this is actually <i>double</i>-underscore, which makes it even visually more confusing.<p>The approach is interesting, but I&#x27;d <i>really</i> rather see a better name.

Underscore is not a perfect fit for JS, but it&#x27;s close enough; if you like coding in the style Underscore promotes, Underscore.js makes Javscript programming simpler.<p>Underscore seems like it would <i>not at all</i> be a good fit for Golang. Golang really wants you to just use a for-loop.

What is the term for unpythonic in the Go community? This seems to be it. By the way it isn&#x27;t using gofmt. <a href="https://github.com/tobyhede/underscore.go/blob/master/src/underscore_test.go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tobyhede&#x2F;underscore.go&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;un...</a><p>It shows that the author knows how to code go, but I get the impression that go programmers are more picky about idiomatic code than even python programmers, so if the author wants to get into go development, the author should probably stop that and work on something more idiomatic.

The Go community is still small enough that any packages like this that get promoted become cringe-worthy if they are not idiomatic. If someone is coming from a javascript background and this is the first package they see, it might give them the wrong idea about Go.<p>While this could be considered pedantic idolatry by some, Codegangsta&#x27;s very public admission on his experience with Martini (and now Negroni) show that this is a something to be considered when launching shiny new baubles.<p>In my opinion, the more attempts at stuff like this, the better. This is how we all learn!<p><a href="http://blog.codegangsta.io/blog/2014/05/19/my-thoughts-on-martini/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codegangsta.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;19&#x2F;my-thoughts-on-ma...</a>

Oh hello. Library author here.<p>Underscore.go is a mostly WIP that I hadn&#x27;t intended to go live on HN :)<p>The general feedback so far is __ is annoying, I thought it was cool and if people were annoyed they could fix it on import. But I might be quite wrong on this one.<p>The directory layout is going to change and I am working on a branch at the moment that splits the whole thing into a file per algorithm, which makes things much easier to work with.

Not quite as interesting to see an _ clone after watching this critique of _ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=m3svKOdZijA</a>

Neat. I like that you can add your own type specific functions.<p>I was interested in seeing the implementation of the Parallel Map, but on a quick browser through the source, could not find it.<p>If you&#x27;re interested in other works in the same space, I think think the the Gen library (<a href="http://clipperhouse.github.io/gen/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clipperhouse.github.io&#x2F;gen&#x2F;</a>) goes a long way towards providing type-safe, idiomatic, Go code to achieve the same effects.

If there&#x27;s a `src` folder in your repo, you&#x27;re doing it wrong.

Similar to <a href="https://github.com/markmontymark/underscore-go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;markmontymark&#x2F;underscore-go</a>

Love how the library takes advantage of Go&#x27;s generics to expose parametric functional programming.<p><a href="https://github.com/tobyhede/underscore.go/blob/master/src/underscore.go#L59" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tobyhede&#x2F;underscore.go&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;un...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/tobyhede/underscore.go/blob/master/src/underscore.go#L85" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tobyhede&#x2F;underscore.go&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;src&#x2F;un...</a>

As a shameless, related plug, here&#x27;s a clojure-like seq library I wrote for go:<p><a href="https://github.com/mediocregopher/seq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mediocregopher&#x2F;seq</a><p>It isn&#x27;t quite as pretty as this one is, but it does support (thread-safe) lazy sequences.<p>As someone who writes lots of go code, I don&#x27;t think either of these are actually <i>necessary</i>, although they may be fun to use in some cases.

I have done something similar in the past: <a href="http://ahmetalpbalkan.github.io/go-linq/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ahmetalpbalkan.github.io&#x2F;go-linq&#x2F;</a> (<a href="https://github.com/ahmetalpbalkan/go-linq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ahmetalpbalkan&#x2F;go-linq</a>) this also has filter&#x2F;map functions (where&#x2F;select in LINQ) I haven&#x27;t used reflection but callers should make type assertions needed.<p>This doesn&#x27;t make things very slow but not very faster either. When you need performance, a code generator like this can help: <a href="http://clipperhouse.github.io/gen/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clipperhouse.github.io&#x2F;gen&#x2F;</a>

Using the function as the first argument and the iterable as the second, makes it easy to curry functions. A port of Ramda (<a href="https://github.com/CrossEye/ramda" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;CrossEye&#x2F;ramda</a>) would be better for this reason.

-1 on double underscore. Very off-putting.

Ew, now you can have an awkward weak implementation of some FP ideas in Go too.<p>Yeah, I&#x27;m a bitch.

really cool, thx for this. just what go needs imo.