I’m not sure the mentality is exactly “oops, oh well, leave it broken forever” [0]; it is intentionally ponderous. As a stop-gap, linters [1] can get excellent

I’m not sure the mentality is exactly “oops, oh well, leave it broken forever” [0]; it is intentionally ponderous. As a stop-gap, linters [1] can get excellent insight from ASTs. The stability of Go is something I value a lot, so I don’t mind stop-gaps like this too much on balance. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20148 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20148 [1] https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint