reftools vs gopatch

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reftools		gopatch
	Project
2	Mentions	3
144	Stars	765
-	Growth	2.5%
0.0	Activity	7.1
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Go	Language	Go
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	MIT License

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reftools

Posts with mentions or reviews of reftools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-03.

fixplurals with treesitter
2 projects | /r/golang | 3 May 2022

fixplurals CLI is not working correctly for a while. I made a small script with treesitter so I can have this in neovim. Check go.nvim for details.
The GoLand team is looking for feedback about running 'go fmt' on save
4 projects | /r/golang | 12 Jan 2021

But these sounds like they would be better fitted as external transformers like eg or gofillstruct

gopatch

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

Rewriting Go source code with AST tooling
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2021

This approach is powerful, but also laborious - at least in my experience, it’s too much work for relatively simple transformations.
I generally use gopatch instead. It uses the same mechanism under the hood, but the patch files are much less effort to write.
https://github.com/uber-go/gopatch
gopatch: a patch-like tool for refactoring
1 project | /r/golang | 2 Jun 2021
Gopatch: Patch-like tool for refactoring Go code
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing reftools and gopatch you can also consider the following projects:

goimports - [mirror] Go Tools

go-formatter - A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

intellij-community - IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

gomvp - gomvp lets you refactor/rename packages

gofumpt - A stricter gofmt

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

go.nvim - A feature-rich Go development plugin, leveraging gopls, treesitter AST, Dap, and various Go tools to enhance the dev experience.

wild-workouts-go-ddd-example - Go DDD example application. Complete project to show how to apply DDD, Clean Architecture, and CQRS by practical refactoring.