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goat		jennifer
	Project
1	Mentions	6
0	Stars	3,186
-	Growth	-
2.6	Activity	3.7
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

goat

Posts with mentions or reviews of goat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

go:generate using go templates
1 project | /r/golang | 8 Sep 2021

jennifer

Posts with mentions or reviews of jennifer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.

How to minimize RAM usage during Go binary compilation
6 projects | /r/golang | 11 Jul 2023

We have a repo/library called fasten-sources which is made up of mostly generated code (using dave/jennifer)
Golang’s best-kept secret: ‘executable examples’
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jun 2023

Check out my https://github.com/dave/rebecca package for a neat way of building readme docs by embedding Go docs and examples. It generates the readme for https://github.com/dave/jennifer (see https://github.com/dave/jennifer/blob/master/README.md.tpl).
Designing a config API for microservices applications built using Go
4 projects | dev.to | 10 Nov 2022

The design of the wrapper functions meant we couldn’t easily unmarshal the CUE value into the wrapper functions. This meant we needed to generate unmarshalled functions for the config types. We use the excellent Jennifer library by Dave (no really; github.com/dave/jennifer) for generating Go files.
Simple code generator tools to explore inner workings of?
1 project | /r/golang | 31 Jul 2022

I've used https://github.com/dave/jennifer in the past, and been very happy with it.
How to choose a golang template rending engine for my project?
2 projects | /r/golang | 20 Jan 2022

If specifically for generating Go code, I would suggest you take a look at Jennifer.
Boilerplate for experienced devs
11 projects | /r/golang | 14 Dec 2021

I just spent a few hours writing a crapload of boilerplate code generation code with jennifer, if that helps any.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing goat and jennifer you can also consider the following projects:

gotests - Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code.

Anakin - Codegeneration tool for isomorphic server and mobile Go apps with gRPC & Protobuf. Share code between your backend, Android & iOS app! :sun_with_face:

GoSwagger - Swagger 2.0 implementation for go

gen - Type-driven code generation for Go

go-linq - .NET LINQ capabilities in Go

efaceconv

interfaces - Code generation tools for Go.

goverter - Generate type-safe Go converters by simply defining an interface

pkgreflect - A Go preprocessor for package scoped reflection

golang-standards/project-layout - Standard Go Project Layout

w3 - Enhanced Ethereum Integration for Go

copygen - Go generator to copy values from type to type and fields from struct to struct (copier without reflection). Generate any code based on types.