Why you should care
Use &T{} instead of new(T) when initializing struct references so that it is consistent with the struct initialization.
How we detect
CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time the keyword “new” is used.
// Bad
sptr := new(T)
sptr.Name = "bar"
// Good
sptr := &T{Name: "bar"}
References
https://github.com/bahlo/go-styleguide#avoid-new-keyword
https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md#initializing-struct-references
https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md#initializing-struct-references
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