A code generator for Go. See the Blog Post.
Phoenix is a Go code generator, meant to be used with packages from https://github.com/go-phoenix to build interactive OpenGL applications. Its purpose is to cleanly support a simple subset of the sorts of things one might use an in-language template engine for. This allows static code to be generated for each use-case of the types implementing a Go interface, for a particular set of interfaces.
At the beginning, it will implement only a small set of types, and extensions must be manually added by the user. As we push development forward, we have high hopes for what we might accomplish.
Phoenix can be used directly or through go:generate (which is how it's meant
to be used) by adding a comment to Go source code as explained in
the go:generate Blog Post.
For example:
//go:generate phoenix ... [TODO: Finish me!]Phoenix is intended to run as a standalone utility which can be driven by other programs, including ones offering network interfaces. Since Phoenix is free software, its licensing supports the freedom for users to obtain and use its source code.
If the freedom to obtain and use its source code could be taken away by hosting the program behind a network interface, then the software wouldn't really be free.
The GNU Affero GPL specifies that anyone who takes and redistributes the software, with or without modifications, must pass along the freedoms it specifies to their users.
We think this is a good thing. So do lots of other people, including e.g. MongoDB.
You don't need to use a free license for your software unless you create a linked version importing free-licensed code. You do, however, need to make sure your users can obtain a copy of the Phoenix source code, including any modifications you've made.
For more info, see the article What is Copyleft? and the difference between an “aggregate” and other kinds of “modified versions” on the GNU organization website.