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goutil: our changes to an open source project

A collection of over 900 helper functions for Go.

All contributions
Language
Go
GitHub stars
2,362
1merged change
Merged on 7 September 2026.
Number 43 of the 64 GitHub projects with our changes, by stars. First is Zed (91,587).

The change merged into goutil

Substr no longer panics on an out-of-range negative length.

What it taught us

Helper functions get input their author never expected. A range check costs one line; a panic takes the whole program down.

Go

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Other projects with our changes: Go

21 projects in this technology have our merged changes. The bar is the repository's stars, next to it the number of our changes. Each row leads to the project's page.

goutil among all our changes

Day by day from 5 September 2026 to 11 October 2026. A column is every change merged that day, the accent is the changes in goutil.

  • Changes in goutil
  • Changes in other projects

1 merged change in goutil

Merged on 7 September 2026.

On the same day

Changes of ours were also merged into: goquery, League CommonMark, HTML To Markdown, gookit/color, gookit/config.

The whole period

125 merged changes in 65 projects.

Questions about our changes to goutil

Where these changes come from, who merged them and whether we can fix something in your library.

Using goutil in your project?

If something in it does not work, we fix it at the source and leave a workaround until the release. We reply within an hour.