Well, that's because you do not work with go much I guess? I can say the same about Fennel, List or Haskell. The first example is the way to go in Go. It's id

Well, that's because you do not work with go much I guess? I can say the same about Fennel, List or Haskell. The first example is the way to go in Go. It's idiomatic, not a hack. And it works the same way for many things (for example checking if a channel's closed)