What Overview of how go/ast, go/token, go/types and compilation related packages work. How is it different from reflect. AST (go/ast) The go/ast is the package for abstract syntax tree (AST). Notice the go/ prefix in the path as opposed to a reflection library reflect. The go/ directory contains Go language related packages. The go/ast package contains the nodes types and utility functions. There are some notable interfaces. interfaces in go/ast AST is a tree and ast.Node interface is the fundamental unit of a node in the tree. AST is built from parsing textual code so the Node contains the starting position Pos() and the ending position End() which are of type token.Pos. ...
stow my dotfiles
It appears (again) Linux already has something I wanted. I manage dotfiles in git and wrote a script that checks recursively if file exists at $HOME and creates a symlink. Turns out, stow already solves this. My dotfile repo layout looks like this where dotfiles are encapsulated in root/: 1 2 3 4 ├── root │ ├── .aliases │ ├── .config │ │ ├── vimium-options.json Command to dry-run the setup. Remove --simulate to apply. ...