It might be an accident. Someone uninitiated may think that is how you are expected to initialize the value. A tool like Copilot may introduce it and go unnoticed.

But let's assume the programmer knows what they are doing and there is no code coming from any other source. When would said programmer write code that isn't deliberate? What is it about Go that you think makes them, an otherwise competent programmer, flail around haphazardly without any careful deliberation?