> I was trying to write a thin ORM for Go and quickly found out it was impossible to do what I needed without blowing a bunch of nasty generated source files in

> I was trying to write a thin ORM for Go and quickly found out it was impossible to do what I needed without blowing a bunch of nasty generated source files into the build. In Java, I can give the developer a nice clean interface and just generate the code when the app starts. Go forces you to expose all this to the user of your library Speaking as someone moving from Ruby to Go, I actually like the strong stance that Go takes against magic. The original article acknowledges that Go works the way that it does by design, and acknowledges the reason very fairly: the language is firmly on the side of making code easy to read, even at the expense of making it less elegant to write.