> It totally makes sense from a Go perspective: You created a struct, tried (but failed) to populate it with some json data, and ended up with a value initialis

> It totally makes sense from a Go perspective: You created a struct, tried (but failed) to populate it with some json data, and ended up with a value initialised to its zero-value. This is fine :) To me it looks like a footgun: if the parsing failed then an error should have been signalled. In this case, there is no error and you silently get the wrong value.