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This is also my #1.

Parameter / Option ergonomics.

The current best practice of "functional options" and long function chains results in far too many function stubs ... its a minimum of 3 extra lines per parameter. Parameter structs require a whole extra struct...

Borrowing optional / named parameters from Python would cut down length and complexity of Go code drastically.




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