[elvlysh]

So you would prefer to write match result => error instead of if err != nil? Excuse me for not being convinced that this isn't just fussing over syntax.

[valenterry]

If a language supports Result types, that usually means it also comes with some kind of syntax to use it. Check out some Rust code (or Haskell, Scala, F#, ...) and you will find that in those languages you barely match on the result because you don't have to. Whereas you have to do "if err != nil" in golang all the time.

[stouset]

It isn’t just fussing over syntax, but that would require you actually being curious enough to learn why instead of needing to dismiss people’s valid critiques of out hand.

[tubthumper8]

It's not just syntax, a sum type forces checking for the error whereas a product type does not, so it's a semantic distinction too