There's a lot to fairly criticize about #golang but "no exceptions" is one of its highest virtues, if that's a negative for you I'm lollin'
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Replying to @peterbourgon
Go lacks the abstractions for value-oriented error handling to be ergonomic, and no "must use" means errors can be accidentaly ignored...
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Replying to @bascule
Yep, it’s possible—but conventions make it easy to spot and, in practice, an exceedingly rare accident
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Replying to @peterbourgon
It seems to happen to me fairly frequently. Fortunatey there is errcheck
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Replying to @bascule @peterbourgon
Go's convention works OK when every function is partial. It's bad when mixing partial & total, or when refactoring total -> partial.
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