> Functional options are controversial in the Go community. I don't like them personally. The idea of having a bunch of functions that exist only to mutate inte

> Functional options are controversial in the Go community. I don't like them personally. The idea of having a bunch of functions that exist only to mutate internal state on init is... an odd choice. Google code is riddled with this sort of style. I come from a background in functional programming, and having used functional options in Go for a while now, I completely agree. I've never seen an implementation of them that felt natural or idiomatic to use. They're incredibly awkward, and I basically always prefer the alternative approaches to the functional options style.