An agnostic tool to create *.go sources (and other text) given some template(s) - generic types made easy.

Many weeks were spent in order to come up with a tool named dotgo which is easy to use.

And: dotgo offers a simple yet powerful way to generate go sources in particular (and other kinds of texts in general).

Today github invites us to Join GitHub in support of the open internet, again.

This is important to us, as is Open Software.

As are Freedom and Transparency. And we love to contribute, and to share. Thus:

Today dotgo goes public here - in the hope it shall become useful to the community.

As of this writing - some refactoring is still under way in order to achive this, and in order to improve explanations and examples.

( Note: a couple of days ago, an example of what can be achieved was already published here )

More will follow soon - Thank You for Your patience!

Imagine, You have Your templates and definitions in place. (We'll show You later, how to achieve this with ease.),

dotgo just needs to know:

• the template(s) to be used
• the location for resulting output file(s).

Thus, a simple

dotgo templates-dir target-dir

will do. Or - if these are same, and You already went there, use

dotgo .

and the magic shall happen.

Hint: It's use is intentionally kept so super-simple in order to allow ease of use, e.g. in Your source files, with the generate tool and it's workflow.

dotgo builds heavily on the text/template package from the standard library. For reasons to be shared later elswhere.

And, as it's 'go awarness' can be switched off, there is currently no need for a twin such as dottxt. (This may change, if we feel need to add awarness for go specific stuff such as packages or vendoring. If so, there shall be a plain vanilla dottxt - also useful e.g. for *.md)

Now -as You might now- the standard library provides a second template package: html/template. Even so being isomorphic, it has other benefits when applied to xml/html. Thus, soon after having dotgo public and stable, there shall be it's companion dothtml - just using the other package.

When I chose the name dotgo I was not aware of the website dotgo.eu and it's related events. Please accepty my apologies if this creates any kind of confusion in Your mind. And Yes - I may deserve blames and flames not having taken time to research the name beforehand ...

Your suggestions, remarks, questions and/or contributions are welcome ;-)

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