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rob05c · 3259 days ago · link · · parent · post: Go Is Unapologetically Flawed, Here’s Why We Use It
Specifically, lack of macros. Though Go's reflection and other metaprogramming paradigms also suck. I had a pattern that was repeated everywhere involving both a continue and a return. Which is impossible to convert to a function; it has to be a compile-time macro. Which Go doesn't have. I put as much as I could in a function, but it still ended up being about 6 duplicate lines, repeated everywhere, which were literally impossible to abstract. That said, that was before Go added go generate. I've yet to play with go generate, but I think I could use it to abstract the duplicate block. Though it's a pretty ugly way of doing it.