I agree, I use positional initializers pretty often to get behavior you describe. Not sure about VSCode but if you use GoLand it will even prefix the field nam

I agree, I use positional initializers pretty often to get behavior you describe. Not sure about VSCode but if you use GoLand it will even prefix the field names right in the editor, so there isn't really any readability difference. One other reasonable alternative for OP in Go might be to simply use initialization functions (NewSample() or sample.InitWithX()) for certain structs. It's a bit more flexible with the ability to have multiple initializers and non-zero default field values (and of course also solves the issue of generating compile errors in the rest of the code when new fields/parameters are added).