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mseepgood | 9 months ago

> sometimes a decision is better than nothing

Not in this case. The most popular Go proposal/issue of all times was 'leave "if err != nil" alone': https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20%20sort%3...

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thayne|9 months ago

If go had started out having different syntax for error handling, would these same people request that it change to what go currently does? Or is this just resistance to change, and wanting to keep what they are used to?

I suspect it is the latter.

mseepgood|9 months ago

The second most popular issue was adding generics. So it's probably not a resistance to change.