[copsarebastards]

> What does any of this have to do with Go?

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. We're discussing ways of initializing Go structs.

> All languages with structs have these "problems"!

This is completely false, and exactly why I'm dismissing you: we wouldn't be having this conversation if you knew anything about other languages. There are plenty of languages which will warn you when you fail to initialize a struct field when initializing fields by name.