huggingface / huggingface/tokenizers
Proposal: Add Golang Bindings for tokenizers
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Description
- **Performance-Critical Applications** – Many performance-intensive apps use Go for concurrency and efficiency. Native bindings allow seamless integration without overhead.
- **Server-Side NLP** – Go is widely used in backend services. Golang bindings would make it easier to use Hugging Face tokenizers in APIs, microservices, and inference systems.
- **Better Compatibility** – Many Go-based projects rely on Python/C++ workarounds for NLP tasks. Direct bindings would reduce complexity and improve developer experience.
- **Improved Inference Pipelines** – Many real-time AI systems are built in Go. Native tokenizers would remove Python bottlenecks, making pipelines faster and more reliable
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