[adamrt]

Any time I write "if err == nil" I write // inverted just to make it stick out. It would be nice if it was handled by the language but just wanted to share a way to at least make it a bit more visible.

    if err == nil { // inverted
        return err
    }

[hnlmorg]

I do something similar. I leave a comment but with a short comment why it’s inverted.

It’s usually pretty obvious why: eg

    if err == nil { 
         // we can exit early because we don’t need to keep retrying

But it at least saves me having to double check the logic of the code each time I reread the code for the first time in a while.

[macintux]

I know diddly/squat about Go, but from similar patterns in aeons past, would "nil == err" work as a way to make it stand out?

[haiku2077]

Just tried this and it appears to be valid in the compiler, formatter and golangci-lint

[umanwizard]

Something slightly more elegant (in my subjective opinion) you could do is write

  if !(err != nil) {

[vhcr]

Would be nice if code editors colored it differently so it's easier to see.

[prerok]

return nil

would be clearer, I think. Seems like it's the same but would color differently in my editor.