Should
Expressive Assertions for Go
Details
- External ID
- 47855317
- Source
- HN
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- Launched
- April 21, 2026
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- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4813624678663239
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
A few months ago I posted this here. Since then I've added a bunch of new assertions: BeSorted, BeSameTime, BeWithin, BeError/BeErrorIs/BeErrorAs, formatted custom messages, and some renames for clarity.The core idea is still the same — when a test fails, you should immediately know why without having to add debug prints.https://github.com/Kairum-Labs/should
Enrichment
- Theme
- learning and exam preparation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- assertion library for go
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a pure Go testing assertion utility library implementing comparison functions and formatted diff output.
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