Aren't you supposed to check all the possible errors in golang anyway? How's that any different than java code being littered with error handling code?
Except it's possible to miss checking errors in golang (accidentally either by not assigning the return value, or by overwriting a previously assigned error). Whereas in a language with exceptions, this is not possible unless by explicitly adding code to ignore exceptions.
Do you ever see golang code that handles errors returned from fmt.Println?
I think I agree with you - I'm just trying to understand the other perspective from someone that seems to think not having exceptions is an improvement. I've mostly worked using java and go and to be honest I think I prefer exceptions because you should (almost) always check error codes in go anyway, and if you forget, you just made debugging much more difficult.
apta|6 years ago
Do you ever see golang code that handles errors returned from fmt.Println?
carc|6 years ago