awalterschulze/goderive

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1261 stars · 45 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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goderive is a Go code generator that derives mundane functions (like Equal, Compare, DeepCopy, Sort, Hash) from their parameter types. It parses unimplemented functions with a 'derive' prefix and generates their implementations into a derived.gen.go file.

Use cases

• generate equality functions for Go structs
• auto-generate deep copy functions in Go
• derive sort and hash functions from types
• avoid manually maintaining boilerplate Go functions
• generate set operations like union and intersect for Go types
• derive memoization and function composition helpers

When to choose

• you write Go and want type-derived boilerplate functions generated automatically
• you prefer generated code over reflection for performance
• you want a Haskell-style deriving workflow in Go

When to avoid

• you prefer runtime reflection or generics-only solutions without code generation
• your project disallows generated code files
• you need dynamic behavior that cannot be derived at build time

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

developer-tools compiler developer-tools programming-languages go cli cross-platform goderive deriving functional-programming generics code-generator boilerplate code-generation automation

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