Context:
People with C/C++ background tend to do unnecessary detailed verbs in format strings, i.e.:

fmt.Sprintf("%s %d %f", person.Name, person.Age, person.Salary)

instead of:

fmt.Sprintf("%v %v %v", person.Name, person.Age, person.Salary)

which leads to additional iterations and manual comments on pull requests. I was asked if this can be checked with a linter instead (google/syzkaller#678 (comment)).
Using %v unless something special is needed feels more idiomatic and looks better to me because:

• no need to remember types of all fields
• more robust on var type changes
• also prints arrays and structs

But now I can't actually find any documentation anywhere that %v is indeed more idiomatic and the recommended way. So is it really the recommended way? Are there any advantages in using %d/f/s in common case? Does it make sense to make lint to warn when %v would give the same format?

@dominikh