clipperhouse/gen
Type-driven code generation for Go observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4707
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1037
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1424 stars · 88 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
gen is a command-line code generation tool for Go that provides generics-like functionality by generating typed methods (LINQ/underscore-inspired) for annotated types. It is explicitly deprecated and does not work with recent Go versions, since Go now has native generics.
Use cases
- generate type-safe slice methods for Go types
- add LINQ-like Where, Count, GroupBy to Go collections
- generate Set containers for custom types
- pre-generics Go code needing typed containers
- generate stringer-like methods from type annotations
When to choose
- maintaining legacy Go codebases predating Go 1.18 generics
- studying historical approaches to generics in Go
When to avoid
- any modern Go project - use native generics instead
- recent Go versions, where the tool no longer works
- new projects seeking code generation
Facets
cli-tool · maturity abandoned
cli developer-tools type-system developer-tools programming-languages go cli cross-platform generics go-generics typewriters deprecated linq metaprogramming code-generation command-line
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/clipperhouse/gen · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2f34079d35e5
- homepage: http://clipperhouse.com/gen/overview/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · c85b15bb45d4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| clipperhouse/gen | main | 23 |
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