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Reflection and meta programming

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

CHAPTER

How to Unmartial a String in Go

John Calhoun: I imagine if you just didn't have the JSON package at all, that it would just be a nightmare of people complaining and saying this is awful. Even with it as is, there's already a couple cases withJSON that are challenging. So having that edge case where you could just pull out struct tags might be useful to actually have as a separate library. And then everything else is kind of maybe not worse, but it's definitely a little bit scarier.

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