From 4504ef7e0048cfc3cd517b82a48277d6e7ab6680 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Abhinav Gupta Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 22:36:18 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] README: Add Features section (#73) The package has an empty readme. Adding some basic highlights about why this is good makes sense. --- README.md | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 70aacec..5ab6ac4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,9 +2,29 @@ `multierr` allows combining one or more Go `error`s together. +## Features + +- **Idiomatic**: + multierr follows best practices in Go, and keeps your code idiomatic. + - It keeps the underlying error type hidden, + allowing you to deal in `error` values exclusively. + - It provides APIs to safely append into an error from a `defer` statement. +- **Performant**: + multierr is optimized for performance: + - It avoids allocations where possible. + - It utilizes slice resizing semantics to optimize common cases + like appending into the same error object from a loop. +- **Interoperable**: + multierr interoperates with the Go standard library's error APIs seamlessly: + - The `errors.Is` and `errors.As` functions *just work*. +- **Lightweight**: + multierr comes with virtually no dependencies. + ## Installation - go get -u go.uber.org/multierr +```bash +go get -u go.uber.org/multierr@latest +``` ## Status