box

box is a minimalist, type-safe utility package for Go that introduces generic container types to safely handle the presence or absence of data without relying on risky nil pointer dereferences.

By leveraging Go generics, box provides a clean, expressive API inspired by functional programming patterns like Optional and Maybe.

🚀 Quick Start

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/atendi9/box"
)

func main() {
	// Creating a present value
	name := box.NewSome("Capivara")
	if name.IsPresent() {
		fmt.Println("Hello,", name.Get()) // Output: Hello, Capivara
	}

	// Creating an empty value
	empty := box.NewNone[string]()
	fmt.Println("Value:", empty.Get()) // Output: Value: "" (returns zero value safely)
}