Go isn’t Java. Go isn’t C++. Any struct should always be created so that anyone can use it with new(Struct) safely for all it’s methods and passing it into anything. That’s the entire fucking point of zero-values in Go.
“Zero … wha?”
Yeah, so many developers have no fucking idea how to code Go and make stupid assumptions from their idiotic languages they have been raised on. Go’s zero-value focus is one of the most brilliant parts of the language. It means that everything is simpler–especially marshalling and persistence.
I’m getting pretty sick and tired of all the OOP disease infecting so much Go code. In fact, ChatGPT even says that using Init() is not preferred versus New*() constructors. While it is true that New* is used as an idiom in some of the standard library code almost all cases prefer the use of structs where the default zero value is safe. In cases where initialization (or re-initialization) is desirable the long-standing best practice has always been to add an Init() without breaking the safely of the struct’s zero value.