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Reflection and meta programming

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

CHAPTER

The Importance of Reflection in Goan

When I went to Go, it just didn't feel like writing Go code. So I kind of veered away from it where I could. We have a project where we actually describe our API in Go interfaces and we use that sort of AST. Another form of reflection is with the AST package in Goan or some of the actual kind of code reflection packages. And how are you open source in this? I think you already did. At least then you've got all of that weirdness in one place.

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