I regularly see both of the problems I mentioned when reviewing imported dependencies. Yes, the linters can help for your own code base, but something that for

I regularly see both of the problems I mentioned when reviewing imported dependencies. Yes, the linters can help for your own code base, but something that forces correctness into all code is a big advantage over something that your dependencies may or may not bother with. Most people, I admit, do not review their dependencies, but that in and of itself is a problem. Your fmt.Printf issue is trivially addressed by implementing PrintfOrDrop() which wraps that - and if this was the way Go behaved, you can be certain the standard library would add these variants for conciseness.