[nikolayasdf123]

zero value. container-agnostic initialization. say your type is not struct anymore, you would not have to change the way you intialize it. what you care here is zero value, and let the type figure out that it is zero and use methods appropriately. and it is just more clean this way

here is google guideline: https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/best-practices#declar...

[dwb]

That is a much better argument than saying it is "more clean", which doesn't mean anything. I don't necessarily agree, because I don't think zero values are a good feature of the language, and even if they were this is a completely trivial case. But at least I don't have to work out what "cleanliness" is.