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Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Generics and the AST Package

The go generate feature of the command is a little bit magic, but it's like two slashes go colon generate and then a command. I would actually love to see an implementation of generics that essentially just runs ago generate at the start. Like you write your code as if generics are there, like using a proposal. And then it essentially just compiles it using, you know, some step beforehand into go code. It generates whatever needs to generate and then goes from there.

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