[Web Feed] The upcoming Go 1.16 release has a lot of exciting updates in it, but my most...

.. anticipated addition to the Go standard library is the new io/



The upcoming 
tip.golang.org/doc/go1.16: Go 1.16 release has a lot of exciting updates in it, but my most anticipated addition to the Go standard library is the new 


io/fs


 and 


testing/testfs


 packages.

Go’s 


io.Reader


, 


io.Writer


, and 


os.File


 interfaces go a long way in abstracting common operations on opened files. However, until now there hasn’t been a great story for abstracting an entire filesystem.




Link 1


A Tour of Go 1.16's io/fs package | Ben Congdon: https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2021/01/21/A-Tour-of-Go-116s-iofs-package