Show HN: Toil, a go library for simple parallelism

[indrora]

I was tired of having to write the same basic primitive over and over again: A channel, some control logic, etc.

So I wrote toil -- A port of two of my favorite Python functions over into the Go world. It's very simple. There's optimizations to be made for sure, but this is the result of a couple of hours of wanting something that felt Go-Like in the right way.

[willx86]

Looks pretty cool I've wanted something similar many times

Quick question, why this style?

opts := toil.Options{}. WithWorkers(4). // Use 4 workers (default: number of CPU cores) StopOnError(true)

Most golang uses: toil.Options{Workers: 4} etc etc?

Bar that I look forward to using it!

[willx86]

Another thing maybe

Using context here would be great so jobs can be cancelled instead of timeout