alt Hacker NewsGolang is exactly the same.
It's extremely annoying until it's suddenly very useful and has prevented you doing something unintended.
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SoKamil • last Monday at 12:18 AM
And what is the unintended thing that happens when you have unused variable?
I fail to see how a warning doesn't achieve the same thing while allowing you to iterate faster. Unless you're working with barbarians who commit code that complies with warnings to your repo and there is 0 discipline to stop them.