There's a nice trick you can use to make your map[string]interface{} code a bit easier to write and arguably also to read (less {}s), useful especially when you

There's a nice trick you can use to make your map[string]interface{} code a bit easier to write and arguably also to read (less {}s), useful especially when you need e.g. to serialize some deeply nested JSON, for one-off request: func doSomeRequest(...) { type loose map[string]interface{} payload, err := json.Marshal(loose{ "fooBar": true, "nested": loose{ "subfield": bazArg, }, }) // ... } I should really probably write some blog listing various tricks like this I'm using, but I still can't make myself do it...