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convert Golang types to TypeScript
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HN · launched Nov 18, 2025 · 105 upvotes (top 9%) · 0 views
Niche: developer utility tools · 561 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -73% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A CLI tool parsing Go structs using `go/parser` and printing equivalent TypeScript interface definitions is an established, cleanly scoped AST task.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL, JSON Schema, Protocol Buffers, Zod
Concerns raised: Generated TypeScript quality issues, GraphQL performance problems with deeply nested queries, GraphQL complexity for backend engineers, Proto float/long JSON conversion issues, Proto lacks generics/templates
Feature requests: Support for more languages beyond two, Validation with clear error messages, LLM compatibility for structured output, Zod schema output for TypeScript
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 265 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 266 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 4 days after the earliest competitor.
- reylo · github · 2026-10-21 · 1251 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- PEP 827 · hn · 2026-03-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- I made ts-node alternative, ttsc/ttsx, a TypeScript-go toolchain · hn · 2026-07-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- jinx · github · 2026-10-12 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- tsrs · github · 2026-10-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- ascii-sharks · github · 2026-10-19 · 784 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Golang Client Library for Gradium.ai TTS/STT API · hn · 2025-12-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- JSON to TypeScript Interface Converter · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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