[abigail95]

i do the same because i find the var keyword ugly

[devjam]

Sure, I understand that from the POV of making your code explicit. Personally I have always tended towards, for example:

    var x string

when initializing empty (zero-value) vars, versus:

    x := "hello"

when initializing variables that should hold an initial value.

To me as a Go programmer at least, this is more obvious and intuitive as to the intent of the declaration.