Gostd

Gostd is a port of the unique parts Go standard library to JavaScript.

Note that this is a work in progress and is not ready for production use. Also note that this is not a complete port of the Go standard library, only the parts that are unique to Go and do not have easily available or as high-quality alternatives in JavaScript.

Ported Packages

• io (excluding Pipe which is TODO)
• bufio (only Reader)
• bytes (only IndexByte() and Clone() that is needed for bufio, for all sakes and purposes, unimplemented)
• compress/lzw (only reading support. Writing support is a planned TODO)
• sync (only Mutex and RWMutex)

Go porting rules

• panic = throw new Error()
• byte = number
• []byte = []number or Uint8Array
• make([]byte, n) = new Uint8Array(n)
• copy([]byte) = uint8Copy
• []byte(string) = bytesFromString
• array[i:] = array.subarray(i)
• array[:j] = array.subarray(0, j)
• array[i:j] = array.subarray(i, j)
• (1<<63)-1 = Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (JS doesnt support numbers larger than this)

Limitations

• Single-threaded (equivalent to GOMAXPROCS=1)