[laumars]

That's a weird criticism to read when most of the time people moan about the Go compiler being too strict for failing to compile code with errors that other compilers might only warn or even if ignore.

Go does already have one of the strictest compilers (by default) out there. But it is pretty typical for a great many language frameworks to support optional additional strictness. Eg "use strict" in Perl or the gcc flags of which I cannot recall off hand. I see God's vet as akin to those. ie there when you need it but keeps out of your way when you just need to get some prototyping done.