Comment by mvdan

I hadn't really considered that people might want to do this. From experience reading and writing Go code for ~8 years at multiple companies, the only times I've seen leading or trailing empty lines in blocks have always been either inconsistent or unintentional, and usually both.

Are there Go codebases that stick to the formatting you show, out of curiosity?

Either way, please file a bug. Perhaps others can chime in there if they also use the same style.