This is a toy. It's some binary-munging functionality I needed for $REASONS. I've made it into a tiny library and kept the name as twiddlingbits to discourage you from using it for production.

In Go, it's easy to go from an int to a string of the binary representation of that int, e.g.

i := 7
fmt.Printf("%b\n", i) // "111"

It's not super easy to go the other way, though. UNTIL NOW (cue sales music):

result, _ := BinaryStringToInt("00101") // 5

I also created something called a BinarySlice, which has an integer slice that contains only ones and zeroes (BinarySlice.Bits), with a max length of 63 because I didn't need to deal with overflows for this.

bits := []int{0, 1, 0, 0, 1}
bs := BinarySlice{bits}

result, _ := MakeInt(bs.Bits) // 9

• switch from int to uint so we can have 64 bits.
• add tests for BinarySlice.Validate()