[im_dario]

No "compiler assistance" doesn't mean no assistance at all. There is a growing set of linters based on the community-accepted analysis package [0] that prevent this and other gotchas that Go devs may be prone to.

It isn't a perfect solution, but it works at community level without needing to wait for the Go team to take care of or changing the language/toolchain.

0: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis