go-linq vs gen

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go-linq		gen
	Project
4	Mentions	0
3,399	Stars	1,432
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	2.9
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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go-linq

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

Fourteen Years of Go
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2023

This is a lot more possible now that Go has generics (as of 1.18).
I would probably never use these, as I find such libraries are a whole new domain-specific language to learn, and often don't make things much simpler anyway, but here are some libraries where people have done something like this:
* https://github.com/ahmetb/go-linq: modelled after LINQ, but created pre-generics so only recently added some generics features
Querying and transforming object graphs in Go
6 projects | /r/golang | 17 May 2023

So awhile back, there was a port of Linq https://github.com/ahmetb/go-linq that ended up giving up, since then it has been continued with https://github.com/szmcdull/glinq
Juniper is an extended Go standard library using generics, including containers, iterators, and streams
5 projects | /r/golang | 27 Feb 2022

I am aware of this that predates generics: https://github.com/ahmetb/go-linq/blob/master/groupby.go
What libraries from other languages do you wish were ported over into go?
13 projects | /r/golang | 27 Jul 2021

gen

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

pkgreflect - A Go preprocessor for package scoped reflection

efaceconv

interfaces - Code generation tools for Go.

jennifer - Jennifer is a code generator for Go

JGroups - The JGroups project

ent - An entity framework for Go