What a warm an welcoming community the Go community is /s
I have to say, I've had the "warm an welcoming /s" from the Go community myself. I'll give you a hint: You can also get the same from Smalltalk if you complain that a method can't have more than 256 temporary variables, and that this means Smalltalk isn't a real language. (How that demonstrates cluelessness is left as an exercise.) Annoying Dunning-Kruger crap that would only be clever and well informed if posted as a deliberate troll -- I leave that to you for what sort of welcome one should expect.
I'll also note that you are "copping out" by responding to exactly zero of my arguments and deflecting attention instead. Probably because you can't.
Reflection is a cop-out, especially in a language that has a simplistic type system.
Says who? This could just as well apply to Smalltalk. If you're pedantic about it, you could even say Smalltalk-80 is a strongly typed compiled language. Reflection is just another tool that has trade-offs and potential problems like any number of programming language tools. And if you said it was a language design "smell" you'd be right. But to a dedicated practitioner, no programming language is free of those.
I have to say, I've had the "warm an welcoming /s" from the Go community myself. I'll give you a hint: You can also get the same from Smalltalk if you complain that a method can't have more than 256 temporary variables, and that this means Smalltalk isn't a real language. (How that demonstrates cluelessness is left as an exercise.) Annoying Dunning-Kruger crap that would only be clever and well informed if posted as a deliberate troll -- I leave that to you for what sort of welcome one should expect.
I'll also note that you are "copping out" by responding to exactly zero of my arguments and deflecting attention instead. Probably because you can't.
Reflection is a cop-out, especially in a language that has a simplistic type system.
Says who? This could just as well apply to Smalltalk. If you're pedantic about it, you could even say Smalltalk-80 is a strongly typed compiled language. Reflection is just another tool that has trade-offs and potential problems like any number of programming language tools. And if you said it was a language design "smell" you'd be right. But to a dedicated practitioner, no programming language is free of those.