github.com/Masterminds/sprig is a popular library of template functions, used by some popular projects, e.g. Kubernetes Helm.
Unfortunately, Masterminds/sprig also has a number of inherent flaws: 1. The order of arguments to many of its functions is incompatible with text/template's pipeline syntax. 2. Many of its functions do not handle strings, []bytes, variable numbers of arguments, and other argument variations in a sensible way. 3. It has, at the time of writing, 78 open issues <https://github.com/Masterminds/sprig/issues>, most of them unaddressed, and has seen only minor maintenance activity over the last few years. 4. Its function names do not follow Go's naming conventions. #1 and #2 cannot be fixed in a backwards-compatible way. #3 means that fixes aren't practically accepted anyway. #4 just means that templates using Masterminds/sprig are ugly to Go developer eyes. Instead, I want a library of template functions that works well with text/template, has decent ergonomics, follows Go's naming conventions, and is actively maintained. I don't care about backwards compatibility with sprig as this is impossible to achieve anyway. Before I start such a project, are there any existing good existing alternatives to Masterminds/sprig? Many thanks, Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAHY_QbTxDH_h4f1_o3DFg-9Jv-VfCwPGW4V%3DBFfCYNaf3A2jAA%40mail.gmail.com.
