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I don't understand. What's being sacrificed? Of what use is a list of imports that aren't used?

• kormoc 10y ago
  Efficient copypasta
• fhood 10y ago
  You have never commented out a section of code that was the only place an import was used for debugging?
  • jameskilton 10y ago
    Of course I have. That's not a good reason for the compiler to allow the unused imports. The benefits of Go's strict compilation rules far outweigh the periodic pain points.
  • imauld 10y ago
    Sure. I also use Atom with gofmt installed (the Atom gofmt package allows you to use goimports as a formatter). Comment the line and hit save and the import goes away. Uncomment and hit save and it comes back. Tools exist to make dealing with this requirement painless.