I've seen Go folks say, in effect, "Rust's experience with try doesn't apply to Go because Rust users don't have as strong opinions on readability as we do." Oh, you sweet summer child...
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It's like... we literally did an experiment to answer the question "does try reduce readability"? The results were clear.
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Mine is a loaded opinion (I agree with Peter), but I think drawing comparisons between Go and Rust's readability may not be effective. People who've used Go substantially are likely to think its readability is one of its best features, and it will be defended as such.
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The experience of most languages are dismissed by most other languages.
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cause remember, Rust people supposedly don't care about readability

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I'm most fascinated by the "one way to do things" argument, since programming implies, by definition, multiple ways to do things And you *can* handle errors in other ways, and you'll end up with pretty unidiomatic code:https://speakerdeck.com/rebeccaskinner/monadic-error-handling-in-go …
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