Whats this?
gen is a code-generation tool for Go. Its intended to offer generics-like functionality on your types. Out of the box, it offers offers LINQ/underscore-inspired methods.
It also offers third-party, runtime extensibility via typewriters.
Introduction and docs
This project is deprecated. It won't work with recent versions of Go, and...Go now has proper generics! Treat this project as a historical curiosity.
Typewriters
There is a list of open-source typewriters in TYPEWRITERS.md. Please add your own.
Contributing
There are three big parts of gen.
gen
This repository. The gen package is primarily the command-line interface. Most of the work is done by the typewriter package, and individual typewriters.
typewriter
The typewriter package is where most of the parsing, type evaluation and code generation architecture lives.
typewriters
Typewriters are where templates and logic live for generating code. Heres set, which will make a lovely Set container for your type. Heres slice, which provides the built-in LINQ-like functionality. Heres stringer, a fork of Rob Pikes tool.
Third-party typewriters are added easily by the end user. You publish them as Go packages for import. Learn more...
Wed love to see typewriter packages for things like strongly-typed JSON serialization, Queues, Pools or other containers. Anything of T is a candidate for a typewriter.