> Been using Go since the early days, and 'make/append' always felt clunky and out of place. Especially when you could just use literals for a map/slice... Mos

> Been using Go since the early days, and 'make/append' always felt clunky and out of place. Especially when you could just use literals for a map/slice... Most people do use the literals for creating the empty map/slice. "make" is mostly useful when specifying a known length or capacity, which saves unnecessary allocations and improves performance.