> The reason its like that is that Go philosophically is very much against the idea of annotations and macros, and very strongly about the idea of a clear upfront control flow
Annotations have no control flow, they just attach metadata to items. The difference with struct tags being that that metadata is structured.
Yes, apologies I was not very clear here: What I meant to say is that Go avoids annotations because it invites magic frameworks and other types of metaprogramming that do the work for you behind the scenes.
Annotations have no control flow, they just attach metadata to items. The difference with struct tags being that that metadata is structured.