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Why call it a library when it's a code generator/compiler?

Author here, you’re right. I prefer to call it a tool or an ‘approach’ but whatevs. :)

I would argue this is a new language which just happens to compile to go.

Actually it's a code generator with a library of functions it can generate. This is how the "generics" are implemented: https://github.com/clipperhouse/gen/blob/master/templates.go