title: Declaring variables in Go without specifying type
body: <p>In Go variable declarations are followed by the intended type, for example var x string = "I am a string", but I am using Atom text editor with the go-plus plugin and go-plus suggests that I "should omit type string from declaration of var x; it will be inferred from the right-hand side". So basically, the code still compiles without specifying x's type? So is it unnecessary to specify variable types in Go? </p>