Porting to Go

[meza]

This is a catch-all ticket for all the porting efforts.
It would be messy to list out all the commands just for the sake of it but I wanted to surface the effort that is going on.

Dividing the work up based on commands seems like the obvious choice for now, so here it goes.

• Setting up the golang basics
• Building things on the CI
• Init
• Add
• Remove
• Install
• Update
• Change
• List
• Test <- currently in progress
• Prune
• Scan

Note

The order represents the order these are listed in the Readme file and aren't representative of the working order!

[doshibadev]

Is the Go port effort still active? If so, are contributions still needed?

[meza]

Hey! Life and a bunch of other projects got seriously in the way but it's definitely happening! I will need some help once the core functionality has been ported.
I'm hoping to get there before the end of the year

[doshibadev]

That's great! I'd love to contribute or help maintain the project since I use it a lot. Also, what’s the reason for porting it to Go over TypeScript?

[meza]

Glad to hear!
Most of it is outlined here: #628

On top of that, there's some really cool options for a "user interface in the terminal" with go, which would help out some of the users a lot. We'll finally be able to have a proper cross-platform UI that works both on servers via ssh and locally in the terminal. Something a lot of people have been asking for