[irq-1]

This is just an intractable problem: if there is any way for people to leave unused code, they will. If you want the code to be clean, you cannot have (for example) a debug mode that allows unused code, because the code will just be left in 'debug' format. Eventually the community shared code will have so much debug-but-it-works code that you'll never get a system of clean code.

And think of what the current strict rule has done: go is the only(?!) language that has a consistently clean ecosystem. When's the last time you looked at go code that huge chunks commented out?

That said... it is annoying. More annoying the less import the script, and the faster you want to test something.

[kaba0]

Make debug mode have runtime costs automatically (like race checks, less optimizations for faster compile). That way people are left alone while developing (plus getting cool tools for that as well), while are incentivized to build final prod builds for sane performance, for which they have to clean up after themselves.

Though personally, I dislike this paternalistic approach to handling devs.