Author here. What I’ve written regarding the reflect behaviour isn’t entirely true and I should probably update the article to reflect that. It’s possible to ge

Author here. What I’ve written regarding the reflect behaviour isn’t entirely true and I should probably update the article to reflect that. It’s possible to get (but not set) the value of unexported fields as long as they are of a built in type (e.g. int). What’s not possible is to get access to unexported fields as empty interfaces, which means you cannot type assert them to structs or other types. This seems like an arbitrary limitation (although I’m sure there is a reason for it) and somewhat limits the usefulness of the reflect package.