The nice thing about a statically typed language having standard golint and gofmt is that code is generally self documenting. So I wouldn't ever type that funct

The nice thing about a statically typed language having standard golint and gofmt is that code is generally self documenting. So I wouldn't ever type that function call without seeing the function definition (in my editor or wherever else I found the API reference). But I agree, the fact that Go allows this is bad, imo. It would be better if you had to explicitly suppress errors, even with something like this "_ = doThing()" just to make it harder to miss.