Discoverable functional options pattern
Hello. Today’s will be a quick post. Everyone knows and loves/hates functional options1 in Go. The biggest gripe people get with it is, that the options aren’t discoverable and that there is no IDE support for nicely auto-completing options. My thought about this was that, what if we would just hang it on a struct? Let’s see how that looks. Consider this normal server builder with options: type Server struct { Name string Address string Port int } func WithName(name string) ServerOptFn { return func(s *Server) { s....