alt Hacker NewsYou're not supposed to question the wisdom of the Go developers. They had a very good reason for making unused variables be an unconfigurable hard error, and they don't need to rigorously justify it.
You're not supposed to question the wisdom of the Go developers. They had a very good reason for making unused variables be an unconfigurable hard error, and they don't need to rigorously justify it.
Warnings are often ignored by developers unless you specifically force warnings to be compile errors (you can do this in most compiler). I work on TypeScript/C# code-bases and unless you force people to tidy up unused imports/using and variables, people will just leave them there.
This BTW can cause issues with dependency chains and cause odd compile issues as a result.