I hate seeing data encoded into magic comments, struct tags included. One of my biggest gripes with Go is that I think they should have used a different symbol to distinguish important annotations from true comments.
Who uses struct tags for comments? I’ve never used or seen them used as anything except annotations as in
tag:"value". And linters (go vet?) will tell you if you’re formatting them wrong.I used the embed feature to embedd some files into the binary recently. It feels so hacked together.
That blog is hard to read on a desktop computer in my opinion. But hey, “it looks cool”, at least…
I agree. The content is reasonably sound, but from a design and UX perspective, it’s awful.
Firefox and gnome web reading modes ftw
A follow up post by the author, original shared and discussed here.
As far as I was aware Go didn’t have enums and this
const()Pattern is just a weird thing people do because it behaves like an enum?
You are correct, Go doesn’t have enums. The const thing is a widely accepted pattern for approximating enums.
Don’t understand why people hate them so much. They work fine for me, the go team, and many others. If you want an enum scope you can use the sub package trick. Not ideal but I don’t even need that. Iota is cool because it basically repeats any pattern, including bit flags. My biggest beef with them is the ability to assign any literal value to these custom types, but I can handle it. Plus you can wrap in a struct if you care that much. It’s just not a big deal.
