I am never bothered by unused variables when I&#x27;m doing exploratory programming in Go because if the variable is still unused, I haven&#x27;t written enough code to get to the point of running it for testing.<p>I used to be bothered by the import thing, but then I installed goimports, and now Go is actually better than other languages for imports. Just write &quot;foo.Bar&quot; in your code and goimports will automatically add &quot;baz.io&#x2F;foo&#x2F;&quot; to the imports section on save.