[sakras]

> Is this another case of Google forgetting that people use Go outside of Google, or am I reading too much into this?

Whether or not they are forgetting aside, this is Google’s style guide for code bases in Google. I don’t think non-Google Go programmers were a consideration for them.

On a broader note, it seems as though anytime Google publishes something people interpret it as “industry standard” (see their C++ style guide) and apply it to their non-Google projects. I personally don’t see this as healthy.