[gabesullice]

I felt this way for a long time. And maybe I'm projecting my past struggles onto what you're describing. I shared my current approach in a different comment already [0]. The gist is that I use an optional config struct, whose values get validated and copied over to my server struct inside NewServer. This makes testing much easier because I can mock fewer deps.

FWIW, I really tried to make the functional option pattern work for me, as many others have suggested, but eventually abandoned it. I felt it was a little too clever and therefore difficult to read, while requiring more boilerplate than the config struct + validate and copy pattern.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39320170