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Hi. I am very interested why attributes are now preferred over interfaces and the latter are replaced by the former. The examples are e.g. Thank you for your explanation. |
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I'm not behind this decision but using interfaces as metadata is kind of a hack (because it does not define any contract), so when you have a tool like attributes to add metadata it's better to use it! |
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Agreed, an empty interface as some kind of marker is a sign to use an attribute instead (imo). One thing I've wondered about is: is there a significant perf boost to using instanceof (for interfaces) vs reflection (for attributes). |
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I'm not behind this decision but using interfaces as metadata is kind of a hack (because it does not define any contract), so when you have a tool like attributes to add metadata it's better to use it!