I don't understand why this comment is being downvoted. I just learned something.
If Go enforces a specific coding convention at the compiler level, then that could legitimately be considered at least slightly unusual.
While it's true that this style is far from esoteric, it's also typically just that ( a coding style ). This strikes me as at least somewhat analogous to Python's whitespace indentation rules or Java's checked exceptions, in that what is typically a design choice is enforced by the compiler / interpreter.
If Go enforces a specific coding convention at the compiler level, then that could legitimately be considered at least slightly unusual.
While it's true that this style is far from esoteric, it's also typically just that ( a coding style ). This strikes me as at least somewhat analogous to Python's whitespace indentation rules or Java's checked exceptions, in that what is typically a design choice is enforced by the compiler / interpreter.