Hi all, I'd like to announce the first release of a little Go package I wrote to read/write PLY files: go-plyfile! You can find the source and some installation/usage instructions on GitHub: https://github.com/alexbaden/go-plyfile
go-plyfile is a Go wrapper for the PLY C Library (originally authored by Greg Turk -- see http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ply/ for more). There is embarrassingly little Go code, but I think this package is relevant/interesting for a few reasons. PLY files are fairly academic, so I wanted to preserve the existing usage patterns as much as possible to encourage an easy transition to Go. I decided that wrapping the existing library in Go would be more fruitful than rewriting the C library entirely in Go. Whether this was the correct approach remains to be seen. But, I've used the go-plyfile package on a few other projects and haven't seen any issues so far. I'd appreciate some feedback from some more seasoned Go programmers and am curious about others experiences on making the "wrap existing C code vs write new Go code" decision. I also think a big barrier to entry for Go is the [perceived] lack of packages for custom file formats, etc, especially for the more scientific/academic file formats. For example, in my work we deal with hdf5 files, blosc compression, PLY and VTK files, and countless other custom file formats (though I should note there is both an hdf5 wrapper and a blosc wrapper for Go). Finally, I haven't updated for Go 1.7 yet. I know I'm doing some not-so-great things with C memory access in Go and am anxious to check out the newly added *C.byte functionality. In the meantime, I hope this is useful to somebody else, and any feedback would be very much appreciated! Thanks, Alex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
