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Reflection and meta programming

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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The Benefits of Having a Form Type

John: There's definitely value in being able to add a bit of extra metadata for a particular use case to struct. The alternative has to just be you would describe the same thing just using strong types. I was always told that it's slow, like, struct tags are slow to pause and is that the case still? Has there been any work optimizing that or is it actually pretty quick? "I've never worked on a project where that type of speed has mattered," he says.

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