If any of the static functional languages had this same feature I'd agree - but they don't as far as I know its a warning in them. To me this isn't about "safet

If any of the static functional languages had this same feature I'd agree - but they don't as far as I know its a warning in them. To me this isn't about "safety" its about keeping code clean. Go doesn't really put much emphasis on safety in the sense that Scala, Haskell or Rust does.