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Re:Learn Go in five minutes by skrtskrt on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:35PM (#25649923)
File embedding is a common enough use case (HTML templates, config files) that it really makes me cringe that it's being done with comments.
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Re:Learn Go in five minutes by grey-area on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @03:49PM (#25650820)
I just keep my templates and config in separate files.

There are good reasons to keep them separate anyway (allows config without recompile for example) and for the apps I work on distribution isn’t a problem. So I haven’t really had to use comments as code in 7-8 years of go. Perhaps it’ll become more common with the embed stuff. But then I don’t use struct tags either so I guess I’d prefer Go to be even simpler.

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