I disagree. I don't have your problem. Most (just about all) Go code I read
uses short variable declarations.
There are several popular assistive technologies that you should try. For
example,
Visual Studio Code
https://code.visualstudio.com/
GoLand
https://www.jetbrains.com/go/
peter
For your sliceinsert microbenchmarks, you don't provide the Go version, you
don't provide memory allocation statistics, and you only provide results
for a single data point.
My results for several values of N:
https://play.golang.org/p/WuKmIy_jY20
There are significant differences in CPU perfo