There are a lot of ways to make arguments nicer in Go. The simple on is to just use a configuration struct (or anon struct) at that has nice names. But, for complex stuff, functional options as laid out by Dave Cheney: http://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-fri... (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24lFtGHWxAQ)