dustin/go-humanize

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A Go library providing functions to format units in human-friendly ways, such as converting byte counts to '83 MB', times to '7 hours ago', and numbers to ordinals, comma-separated, or SI notation. It also includes an English subpackage for pluralization and word series formatting.

Use cases

• format file sizes in human readable units like MB or MiB
• display relative timestamps like '3 days from now'
• convert numbers to ordinals like 1st, 2nd, 3rd
• add thousands separators to numbers
• format numbers with SI notation
• pluralize English words correctly
• format lists of words with conjunctions

When to choose

• you need human-friendly formatting of sizes, times, or numbers in a Go program
• you want a small, widely-adopted, stable dependency with minimal imports
• you need simple English pluralization or word list formatting

When to avoid

• you need internationalization/localized formatting for non-English languages
• you need locale-aware number or date formatting with full i18n support
• you are not working in Go

Facets

library · maturity stable

serialization developer-tools developer-tools go cross-platform human-readable formatting file-sizes relative-time number-formatting english-plurals algorithms

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