I believe what the commenter is complaining about is that you can't specify default values through a constructor that is invoked with the new keyword. I persona

I believe what the commenter is complaining about is that you can't specify default values through a constructor that is invoked with the new keyword. I personally don't see this as a huge concern, since you can just make a constructor function, but it's definitely a valid concern because you could still allow people to shoot themselves in the foot when using a struct literal. Go's paradigm of making the zero-value something meaningful is great, but it isn't always viable unfortunately. Even in the stdlib there are a couple of structs where you're better off changing those values.