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The Universal Filesystem Abstraction for Go

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2015-12-11 · latest 2025-08-25

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  1. …ss/gos-fs-package-modern-file-system-abs... But the stdlib one is a bit barebones. So people created: https://github.com/spf13/afero
    comment by lenkite · 2025-08-25 · in In-Memory Filesystems in Rust
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    A FileSystem Abstraction System for Go
    story by jcbhmr · 2025-04-03 · 0 comments
  3. …it would be one of the most valuable improvements to the go ecosystem possible at this point! [1]: https://github.com/spf13/afero [2]: https://github.com/absfs/absfs
  4. …to abstract filesystem access. Shoutout as they make unit testing filesystem ops a piece of cake! https://github.com/spf13/afero
  5. Not an answer to your question, but this is what I use for Go when I need to do this: https://github.com/spf13/afero
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    Afero: Universal Filesystem Library for Go with Full Windows Compatibility
    story by jaytaylor · 2015-12-11 · 1 comment