goderive VS ppx_deriving

Compare goderive vs ppx_deriving and see what are their differences.

goderive

Derives and generates mundane golang functions that you do not want to maintain yourself (by awalterschulze)

ppx_deriving

Type-driven code generation for OCaml (by ocaml-ppx)
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goderive ppx_deriving
3 7
1,161 439
- 2.3%
2.8 7.0
19 days ago about 21 hours ago
Go OCaml
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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goderive

Posts with mentions or reviews of goderive. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-10.
  • Why GoLang supports null references if they are billion dollar mistake?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 10 Sep 2022
    Now, am I going to do the same with a library like goderive just so I can use FP techniques to get, amongst some other things, less nil checks? No. Probably not. If I wanted to use primarily FP techniques in my code, I would probably be using something else in the first place. Go isn't a great environment for guaranteeing immutability for starters, so anything like that is necessarily going to be an incomplete experience. And in the bargain, my code would, in my opinion at least, be less readable and maintainable.

ppx_deriving

Posts with mentions or reviews of ppx_deriving. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.
  • My Thoughts on OCaml
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2023
    > You gave a beautiful answer about programming language

    You do the same thing as in Rust, Scala or Haskell and derive the printer [1]. Then at the callsite, if you know the type then you do `T.show` to print it or `T.eq`. If you don't know the type, then you pass it in at the top level as a module and then do `T.show` or `T.eq`.

    > Or to convert one type into another type?

    If you want to convert a type, then you have a type that you want to convert from such as foo and bar, then you do `Foo.to_bar value`.

    We can keep going, but you can get the point.

    You _can't_ judge a language by doing what you want to do with one language in another. If I judge Rust by writing recursive data structures and complaining about performance and verbosity that's not particularly fair correct? I can't say that Dart is terrible for desktop because I can't use chrome developer tools on its canvas output and ignore it's hot-reloading server. I can't say Common Lisp code is unreadable because I don't have type annotations and ignore the REPL for introspection.

    [1] https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ppx_deriving

  • Is rust serde unique?
    6 projects | /r/rust | 19 Apr 2023
    Ocaml has the amazing ppx_deriving which can be used for serialization / deserialization in various formats.
  • Question on type declaration syntax
    2 projects | /r/ocaml | 17 Apr 2023
    I wrote a CLI tool and I'd like to produce statically linked binaries of my tool. However, I cannot do this because I'm using the ppx_deriving deriving preprocessor, and I cannot produce a statically linked executable while using this package.
  • OCaml at First Glance
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2022
    Not great, not terrible; the language supports annotations which mean nothing to the compiler but which pre-processors can take advantage of, and there is a framework called ppx which you can use to write your own preprocessor. There exist many pre-processors to do things like add inline tests, generate getter/setter/pretty-printing functions, and so on. Here is an example:

    https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ppx_deriving

  • Bad documentation of Jane Street libraries
    3 projects | /r/ocaml | 23 Mar 2022
    is from https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ppx_deriving
  • Recommended method for pretty-printing collections in Core?
    2 projects | /r/ocaml | 9 Oct 2021
    Have you tried to derive a print function using https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ppx_deriving

What are some alternatives?

When comparing goderive and ppx_deriving you can also consider the following projects:

go-enum - An enum generator for go

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

deriving-show-simple

ppx_jane - Standard Jane Street ppx rewriters

gotype - Golang source code parsing, usage like reflect package

go-xray - Helpers for making the use of reflection easier

GoWrap - GoWrap is a command line tool for generating decorators for Go interfaces

typeregistry - create type dynamically in Golang

generis - Versatile Go code generator.

ppx_sexp_conv - Generation of S-expression conversion functions from type definitions

json-serde - Example of usage antlr4 and shapeless

generic-data - Generic data types in Haskell, utilities for GHC.Generics