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onsi / gomega

gomega

Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

Ginkgo's Preferred Matcher Library

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:03:49 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-10-10 10:56:19 UTC to 2017-12-11 12:27:17 UTC.

0122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2017

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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Ask HN: Favorite Go testing libraries/tools?

I've seen things like: go-supertest - https://github.com/franela/go-supertest and gomega - https://github.com/onsi/gomega And while appealing in some ways, I always end up at the same place: In many instances these tools seem to go against the principles of idiomatic go. I realize I could be totally wrong, and I also see how being diligent about state is theoretically useful for efficiently identifying/exposing points of failure. but many of the go unit-tests I end up writing take a fair amount of effort for setting up the proper state. And then everything else is pretty much a 1-3 liner to check for failures. If you look at http://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/, I think you'll see what I mean. It's shoe-horned in there. SO, what do you all do that you think is amazingly awesome or at least best-practices beyond golang.org recommendations to co
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de as effectively as possible? Thanks! AaG
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