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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by nvarsj on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:05AM (#23713996)
Also, ironically, go doesn't even do this - it fails compilation on the most useless and pedantic of errors - unused variables and imports. Despite the fact that it's common practice to comment out sections of code during development and debugging, which inevitably leads to unused variables/imports.
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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by kstenerud on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:01PM (#23716108)
This.

So damn annoying and stupid that I finally broke down and modified the compiler to add a -warnunused flag so I don't have to suffer.

https://github.com/kstenerud/go#the-go-programming-language

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by nvarsj on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:36PM (#23716478)
That's not a bad idea - I may go the same route.

I like go for a lot of reasons. But these idiosyncrasies really drag the language down at times.

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Re:Go is boring, and that’s fantastic by furstenheim on Thursday July 02, 2020 @06:01PM (#23718593)
How ironic, one of the first things that I missed in Java was that. Nor the compiler error, nor the standard linter (checkstyle) prevents unused variables.
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