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> I am not a huge fan of go:generate and similar projects. They add a level of unknown that goes against the core Golang design values.

I'm not sure I would agree with that. go:generate is a core part of Go since v1.4 and the enum generators are the kind of thing that was intended. https://go.dev/blog/generate

That said, enums would be a welcome improvement to the language. But even then, I think go:generate has a place.

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"add(ing) a level of unknown" is a very fair description from a code comprehensibility standpoint, since the go:generate directive is about running arbitrary executables.

The is ameliorated somewhat by the fact that go generate is not part of the build process. Its output would typically be checked into the repo. So as long as the generated code is reasonably readable, it should not have too much of an impact on code comprehensibility.

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