[joeblubaugh]

In fact it was “the Java way” for many years and “useless getters” was always a big complaint about Java.

[oefrha]

Hey it's better in Go. In Java it's getFoo(). In Go it's just Foo(). Saves three bytes, and three keystrokes if you program by hand and don't autocomplete!

[gf000]

I do agree to a certain degree, but with getters/setters you could properly hide/set to read-only fields.