While this is incredibly annoying (when trying to write some toy programs in go when it first came out, the 'unused variable' thing hit me so hard until I found

While this is incredibly annoying (when trying to write some toy programs in go when it first came out, the 'unused variable' thing hit me so hard until I found out about using _...) I think the 'editor plugins fix this' response is probably the best - but please comment somewhere with a list of editors/plugins that have such intelligent go support so we don't have to roll our own!