> struct tags greatly reduce the boilerplate code required to map fields to fields. Are you somehow under the impression that Go is unique in having a terse wa

> struct tags greatly reduce the boilerplate code required to map fields to fields. Are you somehow under the impression that Go is unique in having a terse way to map fields to fields? > It’s really quite novel once you understand it. It's the opposite of novel, putting ad-hoc annotations in unstructured contexts is what people used to do before java 5.