I've said the exact thing on multiple occasions. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12892550. this dude created something that opened a port and listened for commands that would control your OS. He hadn't spent 5 minutes making even some basic form of authentication and came straight to HN for the high 5's. People tried to flame me for pointing out that it seemed irresponsible to be promoting software in such a state.

I've withdrawn my upvote after I saw this in the code:

  type Injector struct {
    values          map[reflect.Type]interface{}
    customProviders map[reflect.Type]CustomProvideFunction
  }

Perhaps due to the fact that upvoting privately saves the story and doesn't forward you to another page as favoriting does (which isn't private), people are upvoting with the intention of browsing it later.

I mention it because it is something I do frequently, and I do this because the favoriting feature isn't quite right (I want to privately save stories for later and I don't want to be redirected).

I'll always advocate learning projects like this, but you're absolutely right that if anyone pulls it for production they deserve what they get.

My personal litmus test for OSS is to read the test suite.

Unfortunately, to achieve the functionality I described, I must have used reflection like that, which is not really nice, but I really prefer it to context based methods type assuming and casting which is essentially the same. I know people do not like reflection that is used like this, but the performance is not a concern, and I really got tired of transforming user input and checking for errors in each handler.