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Reflection and meta programming

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Reflection in a Dynamic Language

Go is a strongly typed language, so it deliberately doesn't have reflection. But of course, the reflect packages is an exception to that rule. It's almost like it's not even thought of as something separate. And I think that's intentional and it doesn't sort of go with the story of what go is trying to achieve.

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