What is the third parameter of a Go struct field?

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It’s called a struct tag, they can be parsed using the reflect package at runtime.

From https://golang.org/ref/spec#Struct_types:

A field declaration may be followed by an optional string literal tag, which becomes an attribute for all the fields in the corresponding field declaration.

The tags are made visible through a reflection interface and take part in type identity for structs but are otherwise ignored.

Some packages that use reflection like json and xml use tags to handle special cases better.

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