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by Asraelite 930 days ago
> Unused definitions, type declarations, etc. are compile-time errors.

This is disappointing. One my main grievances with Go is that it's very difficult to prototype code because it won't compile with unused variables. It massively slows down development. It annoyed me so much that I eventually forked the Go compiler and made a version where unused variables are only a warning.