[Web Feed] As the primary author of Python???s os.scandir function and PEP 471 (the origin...

..al proposal for scandir), I was very happy to see that Go is 



As the primary author of Python’s 
docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.scandir: 


os.scandir


 function and 
www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0471/: PEP 471 (the original proposal for 


scandir


), I was very happy to see that Go is adding something similar in Go 1.16, which is coming out in late February 2021.

In Go it will be called 
tip.golang.org/pkg/os/#ReadDir: 


os.ReadDir


, and was 
github.com/golang/go/issues/41467: proposed last September. After more than 100 comments and several tweaks to the design, it was 
github.com/golang/go/commit/a4ede9f9a6254360d39d0f45aec133c355ac6b2a: committed by Russ Cox in October. A file system-agnostic version is also included in the new 
tip.golang.org/pkg/io/fs/: 


io/fs


 package as 
tip.golang.org/pkg/io/fs/#ReadDir: 


fs.ReadDir